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05-24-2019, 12:31 PM #26
It's a very good paying job for Nepal and not necessarily that much more hazardous than some other employment in that country. Nepals development goals and needs for money, as well as that of its people, do not align with the imagery many westerners have of the Himalaya, myself included.
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05-24-2019, 12:42 PM #27
Wow, they have wifi up there?
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05-24-2019, 12:42 PM #28
Double the fees, weed some people out and make the same amount of money. Some sherpas might be out of work, or put to work cleaning it up.
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05-24-2019, 01:21 PM #29Been there, skied that.
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if that many people can do it they've obviously figured out how to outfit you and the route that is safest and most reliable, seems a waste of money.
"i was tethered to a rope and walked up to the Everest summit !" - no thanks, i'll just drive to the top of the divide over Eisenhower and get just as good as a view.TGR forums cannot handle SkiCougar !
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05-24-2019, 01:32 PM #30
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05-24-2019, 01:43 PM #31
no one cares about Gasherbrum or Makalu or Kanchenjunga or < insert most any other random peak >other than climbers or someone who wants to talk to a climber. the amorphous "everyone" cares about someone who climbed mount everest.
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05-24-2019, 01:49 PM #32Banned
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05-24-2019, 01:52 PM #33
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05-24-2019, 03:17 PM #36Registered User
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at 8000 meters even a real climber will take 3 steps be completely out of breath unable to move, will feel like shit, not be able to eat or sleep maybe experience edema, maybe fall off the mountain so its way dangerouns so I think the people dying just gives Everest more cachet
there used to be a death-to-summit ratio and wonder where that is now that so many people are doing everest ?Lee Lau - xxx-er is the laziest Asian canuck I know
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05-24-2019, 03:32 PM #37Funky But Chic
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I'd rather go to Charlotte.
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05-24-2019, 03:36 PM #38
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05-24-2019, 03:38 PM #40Funky But Chic
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ooof. toughie.
Do I have to get on 95?
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05-24-2019, 03:43 PM #41
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05-24-2019, 11:24 PM #42
You don't climb Everest for the view. I think we all have stood on the highest peak in an area and looked out on a fairly featureless sea of peaks. The best views are from the subsidiary peaks towards the big ones. The view from the top of Rendezvous beats the view from the top of the Grand Teton IMO. The best view in the Winds is from the top of Stroud Pk 11K ish, towards Gannet, not from the top of Gannet, according to the guidebook and IMO. There's nothing like looking at a big mountain face on from a nearby summit half way to the top of the big one. You can really appreciate how big and steep the big one is in a way you can't get from climbing the big one.
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05-24-2019, 11:36 PM #43
Does your theory apply to tits?
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05-24-2019, 11:48 PM #44
Yeah but you've got to walk past (and sometimes sleep next to) all the dead bodies on your way up to see that view <shudder>
200 Dead, Unrecovered Bodies on Mt. Everest Used as Landmarks
Rainier is beautiful from the top of Crystal Mt.“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
Kindness is a bridge between all people
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05-25-2019, 02:00 AM #45
https://historydaily.org/mt-everest-...d-as-landmarks
Sometimes climbers stumble upon men and women who are dying on the mountain but have no way of helping them and so they must leave them to die.OH, MY GAWD! ―John Hillerman Big Billie Eilish fan.
But that's a quibble to what PG posted (at first, anyway, I haven't read his latest book) ―jono
we are not arguing about ski boots or fashionable clothing or spageheti O's which mean nothing in the grand scheme ― XXX-er
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05-25-2019, 02:37 AM #46
I'm with you. Drag them down and at least if at the end of your mental/physical rope give them a toss.
It's about morals, and the unwritten climber's code.
But, the people going up these days probably don't abide.
I can't tell you how many times I've put my life in front of another climber/hiker/skier.
I also can't tell you when the last time I didn't sleep a good night besides my own demons. Not theirs.
The most prominent picture on my wall when you walk into my place is a photograph of a climb where the small people in that image went boom. Skull blood splashed on my face. I've been looking and experiencing that moment everyday in my face for 20 years. And it's happened 3x since.
It keeps the soul in check if you don't believe in the God thing.
I don't believe in the god thing, but I do believe in the people thing. And I know that I've saved a lot of actual people thing's lives over the years. Many.
I've seen the face of death, in others, and been there myself. It's not pretty, if it's the concussed brain damaged person hanging off the rope, or your mother with a needle sticking out of her arm.
Do the right thing. Spike Lee did not invent that.
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05-25-2019, 07:29 AM #47
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05-25-2019, 08:05 AM #48
Dying to live.
Bullfighting?
Darwin?
Climbing?watch out for snakes
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05-25-2019, 08:19 AM #49
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05-25-2019, 08:33 AM #50
I'd understand if it was someone exhausted on the way down, and can't help for the life of them. But people are being passed on the way up by peak-baggers.
If someone can wait in a line of 200 people, with a sherpa and extra oxygen tanks, then in my opinion they also have the ability to help a comrade. Think like a US Marine, "no man left behind". If you can drag your own ass up the mountain, then you can help drag someone else ass down the mountain - or at least try, just try, and see if they can be helped with extra oxygen and hydration.
If you can't help someone for fear of your life, then how the heck are you going to even help yourself to the top at that point?
The TOWER of BABEL.OH, MY GAWD! ―John Hillerman Big Billie Eilish fan.
But that's a quibble to what PG posted (at first, anyway, I haven't read his latest book) ―jono
we are not arguing about ski boots or fashionable clothing or spageheti O's which mean nothing in the grand scheme ― XXX-er
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