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As we mark 70 years since the first ascent of Everest on 29 May 1953, the world's highest mountain has just made its debut in the Metaverse with Sandbox game 3VEREST. Adam Butterworth looks at where the game fits in the long history of Everest-themed entertainment.

In 1955, just two years after the first ascent of Everest by Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay, the Mt Everest board game invited children aged 8-12 to "Climb the World's Highest Mountain" using magnetised mountaineer figurines to ascend a pyramidal representation of Everest.

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"The game is the brainchild of Gillian de Brondeau. De Brondeau works for a Crypto company based in Singapore, so it's clear he has a personal investment in Web3."

NFTs? Web3? Works for a Crypto company? Checks out all the 'shill' marks. Is the game 'the highest ever pyramid scheme' then?

Somehow, that wasn't really on my 'UKC 2023 articles' bingo card...

If anybody still needs explaining what the whole "Web3" fraud really is (hint: indeed a fraud), here is a great website documenting all the latest Web3 swindles and faults:

https://web3isgoinggreat.com/

Adam Butterworth as in THE Adam Butterworth? Power to the pucc  💪

Well, that sounds like total shite.

I thought this was a good article: https://stackdiary.com/web3-scam/

Unlike Alex0989, I am not a bot 😁

But I am traditionally sceptical, so there's probably an element of confirmation bias in me liking that article.