Hit by Avalanche in Everest Basecamp 25.04.2015
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www.motherjones.com/environment/2015/04/video-moment-avalanche-hit-everest-basecamp-terrifying
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Jahled Three shades of black, Mon 27 Apr 2015, 17:38,
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the effing and jeffing in Akkadian was enough
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Mudface The web isn't callipygian, Mon 27 Apr 2015, 17:53,
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No wonder god smited them
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Rebel biscuit stercore sumus et nos esse novimus, Mon 27 Apr 2015, 18:38,
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Smote, you ignoramus
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evil_andy Stick stick stick stick sticky sticky stick stick, Mon 27 Apr 2015, 19:37,
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I hope thats not a smoteable offence
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Rebel biscuit stercore sumus et nos esse novimus, Mon 27 Apr 2015, 20:57,
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Last time I was on a bus
I got smitten
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evil_andy Stick stick stick stick sticky sticky stick stick, Mon 27 Apr 2015, 21:30,
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I feel sorry for the people up there
But climbing Everest is a risky proposition at any time. There is always a risk of avalanches, sudden bad weather, etc. I still find it weird that you get wealthy tourists who see it as a sort of excursion.
(, Mon 27 Apr 2015, 17:49, Share, Reply)
I don't give very much of a shit about the rich western tourists who embarked on a dangerous and foolhardy adventure.
I feel for the Sherpas that were being paid to be there by these rich wankers, and all the thousands of natives at the foot of the mountain who copped it.
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Prufrock Lucifer, son of the morning!, Mon 27 Apr 2015, 17:53,
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Yeah
A bit how I feel. The sherpas thing is quite interesting: on the one hand you could see it as exploitative because these guys are risking their lives to help wealthy Westerners fulfil some sort of life goal.
On the other hand, from their point of view they are making shitloads of money to support their families. The pay for being a sherpa on an expedition beats being a subsistence farmer in one of the world's poorest countries.
(, Mon 27 Apr 2015, 18:00, Share, Reply)
True.
But the Sherpas are the real deal. They carry other people's backpacks and oxygen tanks. The Sherpas can do the ascent without oxygen, hardly any tourists do, which shows them up as somehow faking it, many Sherpas won't take people who won't bring adequate oxygen. I also hate that all those that don't make it are just left there. People care more about themselves and their own pointless ascent than doing the right thing and giving some dignity to the dead.
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Prufrock Lucifer, son of the morning!, Mon 27 Apr 2015, 18:08,
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The first person to do it without oxygen
was an Italian (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reinhold_Messner), but you're right - the vast majority of the tourist climbers rather than serious climbers are totally reliant on the Sherpas.
On the thing about leaving the dead, I can kind of understand it. It would be a huge operation to drag a corpse down from high up on the mountain, and would be risky for the people doing it (far more likely to have an accident). The bodies further down the mountain are routinely recovered when possible.
The sad truth, as well, is that if anyone was going to recover the bodies from higher up, it'd be the Sherpas again being asked to take the risks...
(, Mon 27 Apr 2015, 18:29, Share, Reply)
It's a strange one
It's so crowded up there there are literally 'traffic jams' of climbers waiting their turn to make the ascent, tons and tons of rubbish, and bodies galore of those who have perished and been left up there.
I was speaking to a serious climber friend of mine who has zero interest in the mountain. He remarked if he was to put that much effort into a climb he would go for one of the unconquered peaks.
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Jahled Three shades of black, Mon 27 Apr 2015, 17:53,
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Yeah
I think it's been a common attitude amongst mountaineers for a while that Everest has become a bit meaningless and a bit of a circus. Personally, I'm fascinated by it and have read quite a few books about it, but even if I had all the money in the world, I wouldn't have any desire to climb it myself.
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Do you know what they do when someone dies on Everest?
Nothing, they leave 'm there.
sometimes-interesting.com/2011/06/29/over-200-dead-bodies-on-mount-everest/
(, Mon 27 Apr 2015, 18:31, Share, Reply)
It's quite a long list:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_who_died_climbing_Mount_Everest
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Harpago ¯\(°_o)/¯, Mon 27 Apr 2015, 19:21,
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If you haven't seen it,
This is brilliant: www.imdb.com/title/tt0219671/
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sir_spicious2000 Crap I've watched: www.filmplop.blogspot.com/, Mon 27 Apr 2015, 19:53,
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I don't think it's for 'climbers'
It's for a different sort of person, I don't want to belittle the achievement (So much to say the average fit office worker has a 90% chance of doing it) - The climbers I know do climbing for the same reasons the hikers, boat-people (They hate that) and pilots do things alone and dangerous. It's often to be alone doing what you love to do.
Of the few climbing people I know, several have 'done' the Everest thing - the one I talked to recently - since these events - said he thought the 5 Peaks Challenge was actually more kudos.
And also, he inferred, Everest was for those with nothing left, something to prove or frankly a 'bit mental'. "Trekking", he said. "Lemming fucking trekking". He said Everest was a 'resort'
It's not a hobby for me, for sure.
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zacherynuk @echo off, Mon 27 Apr 2015, 21:55,
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Viral campaign for North Face.
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