Could be, Dudeson, but for those relatively few ESL students who will go abroad to study in English, a little introduction to what they're getting into may not be such a bad idea. And some universities are not quite like high school, and a lot of them don't have to be, for the student. Students going abroad to do postgrad work will need to pick up a bit more about academic writing in English than they may have had before.
Not that all this affects the average foreign ESL teacher much.

@ Haali: that's not the message.

@ tiger: on privileged kids: understood, yes, there are exceptions.
@ tiger on giving advice: yes, but plenty of teachers, ESL or otherwise, have been to Chinese universities, where most students of English are likely to go, and foreign ESL teachers are not necessarily the best advisors concerning them.

(a) & (d) are often important, but it can also be done decently, if you really know what you are doing and are devoted to the 'sport' and are not a jerk, with fellow climbers of whatever origin on a basis of equality and mutual respect and personal responsibility. The idea that 'nothing bad can happen to me' is dangerous and is one held by people I would never climb with. Climbing can be a wonderful activity if you are nuts enough to be fanatical about it, and an absolutely crazy masochistic obsession if you are not.

Choose your poison, but don't use people in the process - only shits disregard the lives of others, and Sherpa guides have a long history of not being shits.
PS: I'm not pretending to have any experience with really serious high-altitude mountaineering, but only referring to climbing per se - and there the disposable wealth is not always necessary - Mt. Everest is somewhat different.

Obviously, I hope, the language and verbal explanation are not the most important things.