Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2020/01/08/climbers-fined-860000-for-dr.html
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So you have to be arrogant enough to do this, plus stupid enough not to realize that if you’re caught you’re subject to the Chinese justice system, which is not known for its gentleness. Wow.
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Where were they from?
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Isn’t the whole point of using drones that you can get footage from vantages that would normally be inaccessible to human beings?
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What’s the big deal? It only took 4.5 billion years to create.
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looks like they wanted to take fancy footage of themselves on the top.
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I couldn’t find a source for their nationality, but their names are "Zhang Yongming, Mao Weiming, and Zhang Lu” so I’m going to guess that they are Chinese.
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Thanks, couldn’t find the nationality either.
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Is it legal to climb that thing at all?
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“Make sure the camera gets us from every angle so there is no ambiguity when it is used as evidence against us at trial!”
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So, will their Instagram-fueled influencer income cover the fine?
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Good. About time people started getting reminded they aren’t the only ones on this planet.
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YEAH! Big rocks are people too!
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I would have twisted the knife a bit – fined them $860,001.99 – then threaten to come down even harder if they didn’t pay up to the last penny. A psychological spit in the eye.
Why? Vanity.
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But… that’s not how climbing…
…I can’t.
That’s a pretty impressive formation. It’s too bad those idiots bolted it. Really, if something is that important you need to be able to climb it clean or just not climb it at all. Maybe the latter even if you could do it clean.
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Well - I don’t think the folks who bolted routes at The Great Arch at Getu got fined.
Or at Moon Hill
So I can see why they though it was no big whoop. They probably should have checked first.
Will they now rename it Piton Rock?
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