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
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“there was a cliff they said was 3m tall but actually it’s 8m tall”
The wiki page on the ascent is kind of hilarious with how it makes the scepticism seem completely racially motivated:
vs
“there was a cliff they said was 3m tall but actually it’s 8m tall”
Yeah it is funny when wikipedia tells on these assholes. Suddenly they don’t like it as an aggregate