• ProfessorOwl_PhD [any]@hexbear.net
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    4 days ago

    The wiki page on the ascent is kind of hilarious with how it makes the scepticism seem completely racially motivated:

    • Subsequent ascents corroborated the expedition report’s descriptions of the Third Step and the terrain near the summit, and demonstrated the viability of ascending without oxygen
    • Lawrence Wager concluded that the 25 May photos were taken above the Second Step by comparing them to photos from the 1933 and 1953 expeditions
    • contemporary written accounts from the 1960 expedition “incorporate descriptions of topographical details of the final pyramid that could only have been obtained if the party had indeed reached the top.”
    • A study of the video determined that it had been taken above 8,700 m, demonstrating that the party had overcome the crux of the way to the summit

    vs

    “there was a cliff they said was 3m tall but actually it’s 8m tall”