Everest: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

That Rick Roll was a Chekov's gun, you could see it coming a mile away. The thing with a Rick Roll is that you should: never foreshadow it. Never announce it. Never gonna run around around and desert you. Never gonna make you cry. Never gonna say goodbye. Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you.

"That's one man physically squeezing the White guilt out of another." I almost died.

I always imagined climbing a mountain as this silent, sort of lonely endeavor with at most a few people. Not getting to the top and waiting in line for a photo like you're trying to get a picture with a mall Santa. So weird.

The fact that AT&T owns Warner Media, who owns HBO, and John didn't hold back at mocking the company is why this news show is my favorite

As a Nepali I approve this video, please don't climb Mt. Everest, stay at home, enjoy time with friends.

"That is one man literially squeezing the white guilt out of another." Amazingly accurate. That dude really wanted to believe that claim as fast as he could so he didn't have to feel as bad about paying this man to risk himself daily to make his up hill walk possible.

Here's some event on Mount Everest that truly impresses me: in May 2006, one climber on the descend was left for dead at 8700m, after his team had tried for hours to rescue him. An ascending team found him the next morning, still alive against all odds, and gave up on their own ascend to rescue him. The members of that team were: - Daniel Mazur (U.S.) - Andrew Brash (Canada) - Myles Osborne (UK) - Jangbu Sherpa

"Our fatality rate is close to zero" is the writing that kept this show alive for so long and what will keep it alive. Subtle gold across the board

Sherpas be like, "This is my hundredth climb to the peak."

I love Mount Everest. It's literally the Highest of the High Grounds.

Fun story, when I was a junior in high school our football team had a motivational speaker and he was talking about the mountain type Sherpa and how everyone in life needs to be a Sherpa. My buddy who was a real history nerd shouts out “they’re also a race of people as well” and the motivational speaker was like “no they’re not” and they got into like a 5 minute argument about it where the motivational speaker full on stopped his speech to heckle with this kid. I think about it everytime I watch it. It’s a much brighter thought than what they really go through in real life

As an x-mountaineer i made a decision to avoid Everest just because of the types who pay to get to the top. I support a self support rule that you have to own and carry your equipment, food and provide your own self rescue.

Highest ever phone call, huh? Man's outta be pissed when he hears about planes

Everest should be like the NYC marathon, you should be required to complete several smaller mountains before you can climb the big one.

There's very little prestige in climbing Everest once you learn the only significant requirements now are being physically fit and having enough money. Even less prestige when you consider it's someone else's job to get you up the mountain.

I climbed Machu Picchu which isn’t nearly as high and for the first two days I felt like my head was gonna explode. Altitude is no joke.

On the other hand, the idea of rich people paying over ten thousand dollars to die on a mountain is objectively very funny.

Nepal could increase tourism revenue if they make a law for mountaineers to climb other mountains before giving approval to climb Everest.

I so, so, so much love the fact that Edmund Hillary had his picture taken together with Tenzing Norgay. Every single picture I've seen of the two, they look like brothers and best friends. Also: "It has been a long road ... From a mountain coolie, a bearer of loads, to a wearer of a coat with rows of medals who is carried about in planes and worries about income tax" (Tenzing Norgay) is just such a sweet quote.

He was wearing snowpants indoors... under the heat of theater lights, for (probably) entire time it took to shoot this episode.