{"id":797978,"date":"2019-07-25T09:57:55","date_gmt":"2019-07-25T15:57:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/?p=369169"},"modified":"2019-07-26T08:07:03","modified_gmt":"2019-07-26T14:07:03","slug":"no-you-cant-ski-everest-with-your-epic-pass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/local-news\/no-you-cant-ski-everest-with-your-epic-pass\/","title":{"rendered":"No, you can\u2019t ski Everest with your Epic Pass"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Tuesday, the ski-media company Teton Gravity Research published a piece of satire<\/a> on its website about a made-up company called \u201cEpic Resorts\u201d and the company\u2019s fictional megapass, called the \u201cStoke Pass.\u201d <\/p>\n

For an extra $199, the piece said, pass holders could get unlimited ski and snowboard access to the world\u2019s highest summit, complete with climbing equipment, oxygen tanks, a tent at basecamp and help from Sherpas. The story also promised there would be a chairlift (!) built to 26,000 feet, roughly 3,000 vertical feet below Everest\u2019s summit and on the cusp of Everest\u2019s famed (and feared<\/a>) \u201cDeath Zone.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cStarting in Winter 2019, Epic Resorts will be proud to offer skiers and riders access to one of the most famous alpine environments in the world \u2014 however, it\u2019s gonna be f***ing dangerous<\/strong>,\u201d Epic Resorts CEO Rhonda McSally (not a real person) is quoted as saying. (The bolding in the quote is theirs; the bleeping is ours.)<\/p>\n

One would think that this is easily spottable as satire. To boot, it was posted in the culture section of TGR\u2019s website, not the news section. And it has tags at the bottom identifying it as satire.<\/p>\n

Nonetheless:<\/p>\n

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On Tuesday, the ski-media company Teton Gravity Research published a piece of satire on its website about a made-up company called \u201cEpic Resorts\u201d and the company\u2019s fictional megapass, called the \u201cStoke Pass.\u201d  For an extra $199, the piece said, pass holders could get unlimited ski and snowboard access to the world\u2019s highest summit, complete with climbing equipment, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[99],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-797978","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-18 09:03:14","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=797978"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797978\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":798012,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797978\/revisions\/798012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=797978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=797978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=797978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}