There are two aspects of Everest climbing that I find very disturbing:
The risk to the climbers is obvious, but what very few people know or think about is the extreme risk to the Sherpas who facilitate the climbs and who regularly lose their lives but are rarely mentioned by the media. An Everest Sherpa has, easily, the most dangerous job in the world. It has been said that Sherpas actually
run across the Khumbo Icefall on the return trip from carrying up gear & equipment because it is so incredibly dangerous to spend a single unnecessary moment on it. A Sherpa can make as many as 20 trips across the perilous icefall carrying gear so some oral surgeon from San Jose can eat a hot meal in an insulated tent made by a chef on his way to personal glory.
Second, is the single-mindedness and egregiously poor, almost criminal, judgment of the climbers in the Death Zone. In one particularly disturbing & horrifying story a husband/wife team were in a group nearing the summit when the wife slipped and slid down a shallow gully, winding up not more than a few yards from the group. At this point they had a simple choice: Expend what little time & energy they had to use their ropes to access and rescue the uninjured woman, which would mean that they would have to immediately turn and descend, abandoning hopes of reaching the summit while so very close. Or, they could abandon her and continue, knowing full well that she would be dead by time they returned.
Her husband and the group continued to the summit. Her husband took the usual selfies - smiling & triumphant - at the peak, knowing full-well that just a short distance away his wife was freezing to death, alone, on the slopes of Mount Everest. Many of the bodies on Everest are people who simply stopped for a moment to regather their strength, but were abandoned by their fellow climbers in their single-minded focus on attaining the summit; leaving them to die.
I'm sorry, but that's so amoral and disgusting I can't have any admiration or respect for someone who would do such a thing.