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I remember a guy on Reddit saying that he was going to climb Mount Everest. Motherfucker admitted to being not being physically fit enough, but that he would get fit enough by doing some running. He also had no to little experience in climbing any mountains, and hadn't ever climbed any mountains above 7k meters. He then said he put money on a reserved non-refundable trip to everest in a year to motivate himself. Oh, and all the training and experience gaining was to be done in the year before he went.
Mind you Everest """""can""""" be easy if you hire like multiples guides and plenty of Sherpas to basically drag you up there. But the guy didn't even have that. The absolute confidence some people have when this mountain has taken many lives of much more experienced and veteran climbers already.
At least nobody is stupid enough to climb K2 with no experience. If you've climbed and summited K2, I'd respect you alot more than if you said you climbed and summited Everest by far.
At least he recognized there is some difficulty. If he balked halfway and came back in one piece, then it's not money wasted.
Some people just need to feel the pain in order to regain sobriety. Others though, it will be pointless no matter how much you try to convince them otherwise.