I just read a link that basically had folks oohing and awing "famous climbers" saying stupid shit like, "oh they're so cool. they act like real people...how inspiring"
Fuck that
Climbers aren't movie stars, rockers, royalty, or models.
Each one of us has (hopefully) done something beyond ourselves that deserves respect and admiration as a climber. Hell, that's why we climb right?
So why the heroworshiping cocksuckery?
Shake your own goddamn hand and sign your own fucking autograph.
This is why climbers hate movies like Cliffhanger, Mission Impossible II, etc... They basicaly say that you aren't awesome. They say that type of shit you do every week(or month or year) isn't as special as some actor pretending to have superhuman abilities to scale impossible blue screen. They imply that it's something reserved for something that you are not. The corporate use of climbing in movies, TV, and advirtising belittles every epic, heroic, and superhuman act you've ever done in the mountains.
Fuck that shit. Tell them, "No I'm not going to or ever will climb Everest, it's a fucking walk up." Tell them to go find out for themselves how you put that rope up there. Tell them when you get to the top all you care about is how bad you gotta shit, how tired and hungry you are, and the last thing you would yell is "whooo top of the world man!" Then tell them you are better than that corporate bullshit, and they could only wish that their actors playing for the camera wooing audiences and imasculating us into buying their product had a big a pair of balls as you do .
Be your own fucking hero.