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Mount Everest's Hillary Step collapses, mountaineers confirm
ABC News Australia ^
| 21 May 2017 5:30 PDT
| staff writers
Posted on 05/21/2017 6:11:22 PM PDT by blueplum
A famous feature near the summit of Mount Everest, known as the Hillary Step, has collapsed, potentially making the world's highest peak even more dangerous for climbers. Last year, pictures appeared to show a change in shape to the 12-metre rocky outcrop, named after Sir Edmund Hillary, the first person to scale the mountain. It is thought to have been destroyed in Nepal's 2015 earthquake, but snow coverage made the news hard to confirm. British mountaineer Tim Mosedale confirmed the collapse after he reached the summit this week. "It's official The Hillary Step is no more," he said in a Facebook post. "Not sure what's going to happen when the snow ridge doesn't form because there's some huge blocks randomly perched hither and thither which will be quite tricky to negotiate."
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TOPICS: History; Miscellaneous; Outdoors; Science
KEYWORDS: geology; hillarystep; mountaineering; mounteverest; siredmundhillary
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Hillary is no more.
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posted on
05/21/2017 6:11:22 PM PDT
by
blueplum
To: blueplum
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posted on
05/21/2017 6:15:59 PM PDT
by
JoeProBono
(SOME IMAGES MAY BE DISTURBING VIEWER DISCRETION IS ADVISED;-{)
To: blueplum
I saw Hillary collapse last September.
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posted on
05/21/2017 6:18:04 PM PDT
by
mass55th
(Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
To: blueplum
Hillary has had a problem with steps for several years now.
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posted on
05/21/2017 6:18:04 PM PDT
by
digger48
To: blueplum
To: blueplum
This feature on Everest has been there ever since Hillary Clinton built it in 1952.
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posted on
05/21/2017 6:19:57 PM PDT
by
ClearCase_guy
(Abortion is what slavery was: immoral but not illegal. Not yet.)
To: mass55th
And then again in November!
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posted on
05/21/2017 6:21:17 PM PDT
by
ealgeone
To: blueplum
Well, there goes my vacation.
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posted on
05/21/2017 6:22:08 PM PDT
by
Noumenon
("Only the dead have seen an end to war.")
To: blueplum
To: mass55th
Was that before or after she sharted herself?
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posted on
05/21/2017 6:23:39 PM PDT
by
Noumenon
("Only the dead have seen an end to war.")
To: mass55th
Like a side of skanky beef.
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posted on
05/21/2017 6:23:57 PM PDT
by
Rome2000
(SMASH THE CPUSA-SIC SEMPER TYRANNIS-CLOSE ALL MOSQUES)
To: blueplum
Well, she was named after Sir Edmund Hillary, you know. /s
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posted on
05/21/2017 6:25:03 PM PDT
by
deweyfrank
(Nobody's Perfect)
To: MountainWalker
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posted on
05/21/2017 6:25:46 PM PDT
by
txhurl
(Time to blow the Queen and King off the board, DJT, and by your birthday, or on it!)
To: blueplum
"Mount Everest's Hillary Step collapses"
Mountains doing what comes naturally.
To: All
I told you Globull Warming was series.
To: blueplum
First the Old Man of the Mountain, now the Old Woman.
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posted on
05/21/2017 6:29:31 PM PDT
by
MUDDOG
To: FirstFlaBn
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posted on
05/21/2017 6:32:49 PM PDT
by
beethovenfan
(I always try to maximize my carbon footprint.)
To: blueplum
It couldn't stand the pressure.
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posted on
05/21/2017 6:34:10 PM PDT
by
LostInBayport
(When there are more people riding in the cart than there are pulling it, the cart stops moving...)
To: blueplum
She’s going to be crushed. She was named after the guy that step is named for!!!!
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posted on
05/21/2017 6:34:23 PM PDT
by
SaxxonWoods
(Ride To The Sound Of The Guns)
To: blueplum
Hillary..... step...... collapse.....??
OLD NEWS!!
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posted on
05/21/2017 6:36:56 PM PDT
by
Enchante
(Searching throughout the country for one honest Democrat....)
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