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High-Altitude Brawl on Everest 4-May-2013 At 8:16:13 AM Andrew_M

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There’s been a lot of complex analysis of this incident, but isn’t it more simple than all of that? Tick the ingredients off:

(a) Young guys with lots of testosterone, who belong to a defined ethnic/cultural/religious group
(b) Highly emotionally charged situation (extra bonus points for being potentially life threatening)
(c) Outsider(s) who deliberately offend some central beliefs of the first group

Try swapping in some Western equivalents and see if you think anyone’s going to avoid a trip to the ER:

English football fans/losing world cup final to Germany/Stand outside stadium with megaphone yelling nationalistic abuse at English fans

Fundamentalist Muslim or Christian young men’s religious school/after a fiery sermon from the imam or preacher/stand outside with a megaphone and mock relevant prophet (maybe bring some placards with inflammatory cartoons to emphasise the point)

Dangerouser Cliffs Australia members/in the middle of a chockstone flame war/spray on forum that you’re going to retrobolt The Eternity (make sure to give a specific time that you’ll be there to do it)