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05-29-2019, 01:45 PM #176
I don't recall posting that pictures shouldn't be taken though I did express my gut response to seeing exhalation and celebratory jumping knowing there were dead laying around and by all accounts the place is littered with them and has been for years and years. Drawing on my own feelings, which is what we all do, I think I'd feel a bit more reverence.
<shrug>“When you see something that is not right, not just, not fair, you have a moral obligation to say something. To do something." Rep. John Lewis
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05-29-2019, 01:45 PM #177
I have zero problem with mountaineers and have great admiration for all the real climbers out there. What I DO have a problem with is posers who have no clue what they're doing yet fancy themselves 'mountaineers' because they stayed in a Holiday Inn Express last night and not just put their own lives at risk (that's fine, they're free to do that), but put at DIRECT risk the lives of other climbers and all the sherpas who they paid to shlep their sorry jong butts up and down the mountain. ...all for the selfie and social-media cred at the summit.
That recent viral photo of the long ass line at the peak, along with all the recently deceased, along with the overflowing trash and human waste, along with the now-trashed "base camp" area, is all a great illustration of everything that's wrong with these so-called "mountaineers" clogging up the mountain. Those doctors and lawyers who don't know what a crampon is seriously need to find another (preferably smaller) mountain to climb.
To your correlation with skiers, if you want to go down that road, what you're seeing happen on Everest would be like a lawyer taking a ski vacation for the first time, just took his first lesson where he learned how to pizza and french fry, and then demanding of his instructor, "OK! Now let's go ski the steepest couloir on the planet and you and your best ski instructor buds are taking me and all my friends down it!! All 100 of us at the same time too!"
...Yeah, someone's gonna die.
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05-29-2019, 01:46 PM #178Funky But Chic
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05-29-2019, 01:48 PM #179
Mandy Moore is apparently hanging at base camp
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05-29-2019, 01:56 PM #180
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05-29-2019, 02:00 PM #181
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05-29-2019, 02:00 PM #182
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05-29-2019, 02:04 PM #183
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05-29-2019, 02:07 PM #184
Standard appears to be non-mountaineers calling into question the motivation or credentials of people who have climbed a mountain..
It's kind of amusing.
As a mediocre mountaineer I have, for many reasons, absolutely no desire to climb Everest. But I can completely understand how someone would decide it was a goal they wanted to achieve themselves even if it was the only mountain they ever desired to climb.
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05-29-2019, 02:11 PM #185
Wow. I really pissed off dunfree. Sorry?
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05-29-2019, 02:17 PM #186
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05-29-2019, 02:32 PM #187
"Hands and legs of dead bodies have appeared at the base camp as well in the last few years," an NGO official told BBC News.
"We have noticed that the ice level at and around the base camp has been going down, and that is why the bodies are becoming exposed."
Another government official added that he had personally retrieved around 10 dead bodies recently.
Everest ice melt reveals dozens of dead bodies“When you see something that is not right, not just, not fair, you have a moral obligation to say something. To do something." Rep. John Lewis
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05-29-2019, 02:51 PM #188
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05-29-2019, 03:02 PM #189
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05-29-2019, 03:30 PM #190
People dying on Mt. Everest, what else is new
Y’all have read Megan’s article about Whitney from last year? Not the same but similar. I have talked to Dan (in article) about their experience. In the past 20-30 yrs, some things are unchanged (e.g., many inexperienced people getting permits, going for it, and putting many others at risk) and some things have changed substantially (e.g., social media).
https://www.outsideonline.com/233091...bing-accidents
Re: guides (including sherpas) seeing/encountering death on Everest, my understanding is that this is an accepted component of guiding on the mtn.
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05-29-2019, 03:42 PM #191
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05-29-2019, 03:55 PM #192
Lou "Reichard" [sic] is a professor and scientist at Stanford University. Not to brag, but I co-authored a paper with him and members of his lab, like, I dunno, twenty (20) years ago. Super chill d00d. During a conference call, while there was some small talk still going on at the beginning, I asked him an questions on mountaineering and mentioned passages in David Brashere's (sp?) book that referred to him, which book I had recently read. Lou pretty much laughed off those passages. Anywho, he was a fun guy to talk to and work with. Pretty fucking smart, too.
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05-29-2019, 04:04 PM #193Magazines like this one and writers like me are also part of the problem.
Climbing Mount Everest in 2019
By Svati Kirsten Narula
Svati Kirsten Narula is the associate social media editor at Outside.
Summit day starts dark and early at Camp IV, around 26,000 feet on the South Col, where you’ll crawl out of your tent around midnight and set out for a long, slow walk.
After a few hours ascending a steep slab known as the Triangular Face, or Everest’s South Face, clipped to ropes and stepping over a mix of rock, ice, and snow, you’ll come to an outcropping known as the balcony—a popular spot to stop and replace oxygen bottles if needed, and try to take in some food and water.After reaching the top of Everest, you’ll beat a hasty retreat down the mountain back to Base Camp, where you won’t stay long. Expedition staff will break down and pack up your team’s Base Camp site while you hightail it to Kathmandu.
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05-29-2019, 04:07 PM #194
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05-29-2019, 04:23 PM #195
the elimination of non-core elements of the sport changed the sport.
66 years ago today (5/29/53) Ed Hillary & Tenzing Norgay summitted Mt. Everest. Hillary had left Kathmandu on March 10. They returned to Kathmandu in mid-late June. Lots of that time was not climbing, it was trekking, crossing rivers. One (white) expedition member almost drowned bathing in a river, at least one porter died. Just getting there was dangerous, arduous, and an experience itself.
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05-29-2019, 04:32 PM #196
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05-29-2019, 04:48 PM #197Registered User
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05-29-2019, 04:53 PM #198Registered User
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05-29-2019, 05:26 PM #200
mcski and I must run on the fringes of the same circles. Maybe someday we’ll meet. Knowing most of the people, her father figure story was eye opening....
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