Mount Everest's Hillary Step collapses, mountaineers confirm

ABC News Australia ^ | 21 May 2017 5:30 PDT | staff writers

[Windflier]

"Laughs In President"

Engrish..?

[BobL]

If those clowns were paying attention, they would have known that Hillary collapsed last September.

[tophat9000]

Hillary Step, has collapsed

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Ironic and Prophetic

[Wolfie]

Maybe it will cut down on the line to the summit.

[a fool in paradise]

Stalinists lie. ALWAYS

(waves, smiles, and points to no one in particular in the audience)

[LouAvul]

It could no longer handle the shame of having the same name as one of the most corrupt, immoral, drunken pigs in the history of American politics.

[TigersEye]

If you do a search I think you’ll find his name is spelled with two ‘l’s.

[MV=PY]

"You know. Hillary Clinton was named after him. Her parents were so smart they knew he would be famous before anyone knew his name. Freeking sociopath Lieing when there is no reason. "

Wow! And all this time I thought he was named after Hillary Clinton.

[wardaddy]

How long before the no risk in your life scolds chime in...

[wardaddy]

It looks like the primary slabs are still there but the smaller jigsaw pieces fell off

[Dilbert San Diego]

I read that Hillary dropped steeply in popularity for baby girls names, starting in 1992, when the Clintons came on the national political scene.

Hillary, either with 1 L or 2 Ls, was never extremely popular in the first place for baby girls. But it’s interesting that the steep drop in baby girls with that name happened right when Hillary became a household word. Coincidence??

[MtnClimber]

I have climbed on dangerous peaks before. Eiger, Matterhorn, Popocatepetl, Orazaba, Cayambe, Cotopaxi, Chimborazo, Aconcagua (Polish Glacier Route), Cho Oyu. I know people who have climbed Everest, but I am now over 50 years old and that increases risk greatly on Everest or any of the other peaks over 7,000 meters. I have seen some death from altitude complications and think it is too much risk now for me.

[Dilbert San Diego]

This is so funny. This story is about the Hillary step on Mt. Everest, but most of the comments are about Hillary Clinton.

[wgmalabama]

I like that. Might steal it and not give you any credit.

[blueplum]

in my lead post, I almost typed, ‘let the jokes begin’ but figured that would be redundant :)

[31R1O]

Chucked off the mountain like a side of BEEF!

[MV=PY]

"I like that. Might steal it and not give you any credit."

Help yourself!

[minnesota_bound]

It looks like a loose jumble of rocks. You spend all that effort to get up there then it collapses underneath you....whoosh! down to the bottom!

[Jyotishi]

“Mount Everest’s Hillary Step collapses”

The myth of Edmund Hillary being the first person to reach the summit of Mount Everest collapsed a long time ago. Tenzing Norgay was the first person to reach the summit.

[21twelve]

“Isn’t this great!! The fresh mountain air, windswept snow, the blue sky contrasting with the dark rock. And the solitude! Especially the solitude!”