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Would take way more than that for the average person. You can count the number of people who have done that as of now on one hand.
I agree that the current state of Everest is an embarrassment. But that doesn't change the fact that it's the tallest mountain in the world, and the efforts (both successful and failed) to be the first to summit were audacious and inspiring to many people. Stories like the one in the OP should not be suppressed just because decades later the mountain has turned into a pile of shit.
Here is a popular Instagram account where someone does exactly what you are saying is unreasonable: https://www.instagram.com/salvagetoscenic
> Most places do not have "time limits".
I couldn't find anything about slaughterhouses having lifelong limits for employees and would love a link or search term to use because it's an interesting concept to me.
> I find no evidence of abattoir workers becoming more likely to be serial killers.
I also could not find evidence for this. Here is a meta analysis of many studies, none of which mention slaughterhouse workers being more likely to be serial killers. Some studies show higher crime rates in towns with slaughterhouses, but not for violent crimes. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10009492/
> People used to kill their own animals and weren't vegetarians.
This is trivially true?
It reminds me of people who sell classes using tales of their success, except all of their success comes from selling the classes in the first place.