Scottish Toddler Believed Youngest Person Ever to Reach Mount Everest Base Camp (themessenger.com)
from MicroWave@lemmy.world to world@lemmy.world on 30 Jan 2024 03:22
https://lemmy.world/post/11353455

2-year-old Carter Dallas of Glasgow made the trek on a “whim” with his parents as they travel across Asia.

two-year-old boy from Scotland is believed to have just become the youngest person ever to reach a base camp on Mount Everest.

Carter Dallas, of Glasgow, climbed to the mountain’s south site in Nepal with the help of his parents Ross, 35, and Jade, 31, at the end of October, The Scotsman newspaper and several other U.K. outlets recently reported.

The base camp he made it to is located 17,598 feet (5363 meters) above sea level.

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FuglyDuck@lemmy.world on 30 Jan 2024 03:25 next collapse

I feel like these parents should probably be investigated for child endangerment.

Probably.

mozz@mbin.grits.dev on 30 Jan 2024 03:57 next collapse

The lower reaches of Everest are a filthy, dangerous place which is not suitable for a child. I traveled around in some foreign places as a small child with my family and it was great, but this is akin to those parents who want to take a selfie with a bison or a bear or something. The world isn't a theme park. The places that people are attracted to specifically because they're extreme and dangerous (and at this point unsanitary and overcommercialized beyond the point of it even being a worthwhile adventure) are not good places to take your damn kid.

Cinner@lemmy.world on 31 Jan 2024 03:10 collapse

I’m wondering if this was a rural rough Scottish couple who decided to go climb Everest for some reason and decided “eh, let’s do it” or someone putting their trek onto social media and took their kid for attention.

I hope it’s the former, sometimes people don’t understand danger.

I don’t have the heart to open the article.

the_q@lemmy.world on 30 Jan 2024 04:27 next collapse

Sounds like bad parenting.

Tylerdurdon@lemmy.world on 30 Jan 2024 05:03 collapse

I thought it was the onion, but after seeing the site, I think you’re right.

robocall@lemmy.world on 30 Jan 2024 06:09 next collapse

Stupid parents

LinusWorks4Mo@kbin.social on 30 Jan 2024 11:33 next collapse

probably to get some of those sweet instagram likes

Shalakushka@kbin.social on 30 Jan 2024 12:25 next collapse

Who cares????

Smeagol666@lemm.ee on 31 Jan 2024 00:59 next collapse

Next it’ll be a Florida woman giving birth to a crack baby on the pinnacle, I guess.

TurboHarbinger@feddit.cl on 31 Jan 2024 03:35 collapse

When this infant gets to be a teenager or an adult and hopefully healthy, their parents won’t shut up for shit like “Remember when you went to the Everest? There’s even pictures.” I bet the kid will remember every detail. /s