9 dead, 3 injured in slide on Everest

[totaliboard]

seems to me like you took two different statements i made, and then tried to argue it.. but thats just my understanding.

most villages in nepal/tibet are above 10,000 ft. there are some pretty obvious (and not obvious) effects on that population due to the sheer volume of commercial expeditions.. large avalanches falling into the obvious category.

[Hugh Conway]

most villages in nepal are above 10,000 ft.

most villages in nepal aren't above 10,000 feet. if by "perfectly fine" you mean "a whole host of romantic ailments like goiters, 40' tapeworms, vicious intestinal parasites and dying young" well then yes, it was "perfectly fine"

really, it's their country.

[XXX-er]

A good buddy of mine did "doctors without borders" there, he had an uncanny resemblence to a young Hillary so he was well known

[totaliboard]

tapeworms aside, its peak season for mountaineering and we'll probably be hearing more from the himalayas soon. hopefully good news.

[PNWbrit]

he had an uncanny resemblence to a young Hillary

Alice bands? Pantsuits? Not so slender ankles?

[XXX-er]

To this day he still sez "we knocked the bastard off" all the time

[I've seen black diamonds!]

It seems like our western presence in places like the Himalayas has a negative impact on the population there that functioned otherwise perfectly well on subsistence living..

I'm pretty sure most Tibetans wouldn't say no to having the Brits come back and waving goodbye to Red-Fucking-China. And when it comes to siege-style, shit-show climbing, the Japanese and Koreans play second fiddle to none... Not that type-A Anglo cock suckers aren't part of the problem... But what do I know; I live in a NYC and have been known to feel like a badass when skiing at 6000 feet.