Following Up On Tall Things
O Everest - how we de-magnify your magnificence...
Check out this story from the New York Times detailing China's innovations on the great mountain.
Basically, China's adding cell towers, a paved highway to base camp, and other un-Everest-y Olympic doodads so that they can reap money from foreign tourists, amateur mountaineerers, and confused middle income goats.
FYI: Tibetans call [Mt. Evererst] Chomolungma — the “Goddess Mother of the Universe.â€
Meaning, besides taking from the Tibetans their political freedom and right to peacefully meditate and hang out with goats, we (the modern, corporate, "MADE IN CHINA" world) are also planting cell phone towers on their momz, yo. Weird.
I prefer to call it what George Mallory called it before it took his life. "A prodigious white fang excrescent from the jaw of the world." Fuck. Yes. Did you know that there are over 80 dead unrecovered bodies scattered around on Everest. Some of them are just off of major routes, so some of the thirty (no exaggeration) teams trying to make it up on a given day get to see what happens if they don't. It's like a fucking circus on that mountain.
I think "Prodigious White Fang" would be a fuxing excellent name for:
A) a metal song
B) my next cat
C) overly elaborate haute couture dildo
Actually, "Haute Couture Dildo" would also make a great name for a metal song and/or feline companion.
I slay(er) me.