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Yes, This Photo from Everest Is Real
Outsideonline.com ^ | May 23, 2019 | Svati Kirsten Narula

Posted on 05/26/2019 2:51:27 PM PDT by Daffynition

When we say “Everest is crowded,” this is what we mean

(Excerpt) Read more at outsideonline.com ...


TOPICS: Outdoors
KEYWORDS: becauseitsthere; deathzone; everest; mounteverest
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To: Daffynition

Oh wow. Who allowed THAT to happen?


21 posted on 05/26/2019 3:01:01 PM PDT by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
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To: Daffynition

Solitude!


22 posted on 05/26/2019 3:01:42 PM PDT by Freedom4US
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To: GSWarrior
“How much does it cost to climb Mount Everest?”

How much do Sherpas make?

Today, Local guides are hired by climbing companies. Sherpa get paid the paltry amount of between $3,000-$5,000 US-Dollars for the climbing season, plus bonuses if they climb the Everest. https://www.staeudtner.com/allgemein/sherpa-salary-needs-to-increase-tenfold/

23 posted on 05/26/2019 3:02:47 PM PDT by Daffynition (*I'm living the dream.* & :))
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To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin

Oh wow. Who allowed THAT to happen?
Environmentalists is your answer


24 posted on 05/26/2019 3:03:02 PM PDT by magua (Because itÂ’s being reported that a lot of this started in 2015.)
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To: Rurudyne

Make the guy a Yeti.


25 posted on 05/26/2019 3:04:14 PM PDT by Alas Babylon! (The media is after us. Trump's just in the way.)
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To: Daffynition

Oy.


26 posted on 05/26/2019 3:04:17 PM PDT by sauropod (Yield to sin, and experience chastening and sorrow; yield to God, and experience joy and blessing.)
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To: Daffynition

4,000 would be climbers paid $11,000 each for a climbing permit. That does include sherbas, equipment, food etc to basically freeze and risk death. Nepal just views this as a economic boost to their country. Heard so far 7 climbers have died this week.


27 posted on 05/26/2019 3:04:29 PM PDT by Kozy (new age haruspex; "Everyone has a plan 'till they get punched in the mouth.")
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To: Daffynition

Reminds me when we went to the Great Wall of China at Badaling. A stunningly beautiful place, but all you saw was nonstop hordes of tourists going up and down. My wife was so freaked out by the people she refused to go up the stairs.

One of the bigger disappointments in my life. (Of course, by being there I was one of that crowd.) I have found similar situations at other “famous” tourist destinations we have been to—the Forbidden City and Angkor Wat being two others. Frankly, the advent of easy travel has ruined a lot of things.


28 posted on 05/26/2019 3:04:31 PM PDT by kaehurowing
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To: circlecity

**Hey, mister, For a special fee, I can get you to the front of the line.**


29 posted on 05/26/2019 3:04:56 PM PDT by Daffynition (*I'm living the dream.* & :))
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To: Daffynition

Dang. Is there a MAGA rally at the summit?


30 posted on 05/26/2019 3:05:22 PM PDT by Oscar in Batangas (Jan. 20, 2017, 12:00 PM: The End of an ERROR)
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To: Blurb2350

Why do you consider this a problem you need to solve?


31 posted on 05/26/2019 3:06:14 PM PDT by Trailerpark Badass (There should be a whole lot more going no than throwing bleach, said one woman.)
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To: Daffynition

lol, you climb Everest and have to wait in line.


32 posted on 05/26/2019 3:06:22 PM PDT by Vision (Obama corrupted, sought to weaken and fundamentally change America; he didn't plan on being stopped.)
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To: Daffynition

Okay, those people are just brain dead insane. By the way, that is the longest list of recipients for the Darwin Award that I have ever seed.


33 posted on 05/26/2019 3:07:34 PM PDT by Pilgrim's Progress (http://www.baptistbiblebelievers.com/BYTOPICS/tabid/335/Default.aspx D)
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To: magua

Hate to be the guy that changes the port-a-potties
up there.

What insanity.
A sudden change of weather could kill scores in
one go.


34 posted on 05/26/2019 3:08:24 PM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: kaehurowing

Heck the last time I visited Paris, I think there were more Chinese Tourists than French people in the city.


35 posted on 05/26/2019 3:08:35 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Daffynition

Whoa, outta my way, I gotta do that. Wait on line while freezing and being unable to breathe.


36 posted on 05/26/2019 3:09:49 PM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (As long as Hillary walks free, equal justice under the law will never exist in the USA)
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To: Daffynition
What does the line down look like?

-PJ

37 posted on 05/26/2019 3:10:18 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too (The 1st Amendment gives the People the right to a free press, not CNN the right to the 1st question.)
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To: Daffynition

Who cares! Just like the idiots who pay $10,000 for Super Bowl tickets. I’d rather be home listening to Coltrane.


38 posted on 05/26/2019 3:11:03 PM PDT by Atticus
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To: newnhdad

and a bucket or two being kicked


39 posted on 05/26/2019 3:11:22 PM PDT by bigbob (Trust Trump. Trust the Plan.)
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To: Daffynition

Some people will go to extremes to get a Darwin award. Good opportunity for an experiment. Does the mortality rate correlate with the amount of time a human is forced to breathe air at 28,000 feet? Most of these people make the climb but are stuck up there much longer than they expected due to the congestion preventing a quick descent. Sure they get very acidodic as they become hypoxic and dehydrated and then try to walk and carry their belongings. Even a very fit climber is subject to sudden death. And for what? For another patch on your jacket? Some silly notion of self satisfaction and accomplishment?


40 posted on 05/26/2019 3:11:24 PM PDT by allendale (.)
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