2-year-old Carter Dallas of Glasgow made the trek on a “whim” with his parents as they travel across Asia.
two-year-old boy from Scotland is believed to have just become the youngest person ever to reach a base camp on Mount Everest.
Carter Dallas, of Glasgow, climbed to the mountain’s south site in Nepal with the help of his parents Ross, 35, and Jade, 31, at the end of October, The Scotsman newspaper and several other U.K. outlets recently reported.
The base camp he made it to is located 17,598 feet (5363 meters) above sea level.
The lower reaches of Everest are a filthy, dangerous place which is not suitable for a child. I traveled around in some foreign places as a small child with my family and it was great, but this is akin to those parents who want to take a selfie with a bison or a bear or something. The world isn’t a theme park. The places that people are attracted to specifically because they’re extreme and dangerous (and at this point unsanitary and overcommercialized beyond the point of it even being a worthwhile adventure) are not good places to take your damn kid.
I’m wondering if this was a rural rough Scottish couple who decided to go climb Everest for some reason and decided “eh, let’s do it” or someone putting their trek onto social media and took their kid for attention.
I hope it’s the former, sometimes people don’t understand danger.
I don’t have the heart to open the article.