HACKER Q&A
📣 pythops

Why not bomb the k2 serac to make climbing k2 more safe?


Why not bomb the k2 serac to make climbing k2 more safe?


  👤 bell-cot Accepted Answer ✓
Any reason to suspect that "make climbing K2 safer" could be in the (say) top 10,000 national priorities for China or Pakistan?

Is there some broad public consensus that doing that would "fix the problem", for politicians to enjoy the resulting limelight? Vs. being dangerous, expensive, and stirring up far more controversy than the current status quo?


👤 rsclient
Why not just rename [Haystack Mountain](https://usabynumbers.com/mountains-in-connecticut/) in Connecticut (USA) to K2?

That way climbing K2 will be as easy as a car ride!


👤 nullish_signal
"And all the Hills shall be made Plain, and all of the Valleys raised up..."

👤 tw98521358
Why? Isn’t the point of climbing k2 because it’s stupidly dangerous?