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A petrified woman frozen with fear, teens struggling to climb ladders: Climbers' harrowing accounts of what really happened on Everest [tr]
UK Daily Mail ^
| December 5, 2019
| Chris Pleasance
Posted on 12/05/2019 6:27:40 AM PST by C19fan
The peak of the world's highest mountain and one of the most inhospitable places on Earth is not exactly the kind of spot where you'd expect to get stuck in a queue.
But that is exactly the situation that confronted around 200 climbers this May as they attempted to reach the summit of Everest - captured in a photo that went around the world.
Now, climbers who were caught amid the chaos which claimed 11 lives in just nine days, have spoken out about what happened.
They tell how bad weather and inexperience combined to produce tail-backs at the top of the world which proved fatal for many.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
TOPICS: Travel
KEYWORDS: china; darwinawards; everest; mounteverest; nepal
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To: C19fan
To: cuban leaf
And a McDonalds, definitely a McDonalds.
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posted on
12/05/2019 7:18:58 AM PST
by
Huskrrrr
To: Dilbert San Diego
“How sad for their loved ones, that people die up there on this great adventure of climbing a mountain”
I’m far sadder for those that die slipping in the street or bathtub
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posted on
12/05/2019 7:20:34 AM PST
by
varyouga
To: cuban leaf
“Its funny how weve reached a point in modern civilization where climbing Everest is just a bucket list thing.”
They say more people have now climbed Everest than have sailed (by wind) around the world.
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posted on
12/05/2019 7:34:41 AM PST
by
TalonDJ
To: C19fan
I'm the Mountain
Rising high
It's the way that I survived
I'm the Mountain
Tell my tale
The greatest story's now for sale
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posted on
12/05/2019 7:36:40 AM PST
by
ßuddaßudd
((>> M A G A << "What the hell kind of country is this if I can only hate a man if he's white?")
To: Pearls Before Swine
At my age, it would be the LAST item in the bucket.
We could change that old phrase, “Florida, where america goes to die.” to “Everest, where america goes to die.” :)
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posted on
12/05/2019 7:38:24 AM PST
by
cuban leaf
(The political war playing out in every country now: Globalists vs Nationalists)
To: C19fan
With teens, ladders and the ever terrified woman, I thought this would be about the border wall.
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posted on
12/05/2019 7:46:08 AM PST
by
bgill
To: C19fan
A good book on the adventure of climbing Mt. Everest was “Into Thin Air”, written by Jon Krakauer on the disastrous 1996 climb. One can’t help but think that if the majority of the ropes and ladders - all the “assists” were removed from the climb making it less attractive to the inexperienced, there would be fewer deaths but then why should we care? I’m not sure I do but probably the people doing it for a lark because they can afford it are responsible for the deaths of others on the climb and that’s what is objectionable.
To: cuban leaf
The bodies are now trail markers. As long as you can see dead people, you know you are on the right track.
To: Robert DeLong
Two way traffic on a knife edge at 28,000 feet. What could possibly go wrong?
To: Robert DeLong
Amazing, but at $15,000 a climber fee I guess someone is cashing in.
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posted on
12/05/2019 8:20:15 AM PST
by
1Old Pro
To: C19fan
To: C19fan
The park really needs to close this ride.
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posted on
12/05/2019 9:17:23 AM PST
by
Oratam
To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
Selections from the Mount Everest / Everest keywords, chrono sorted, duplicates out:
- Colorado climber stepped over newly dead bodies to summit Everest.(tr) [2019]
- 24,000 pounds of trash -- and 4 corpses -- removed from Mount Everest [2019]
- Here are two examples of idiots on Mt. Everest who should not be allowed to be there [2019]
- 'It Was Like a Zoo:' Death on an Unruly, Overcrowded Everest [2019]
- Yes, This Photo from Everest Is Real [2019]
- At least four more die on Everest amid overcrowding concerns [2019]
- Three more dead on Everest amid concerns about congestion near summit [2019]
- Saray Khumalo's fellow climber found dead a day after reaching Mt Everest peak [2019]
- 3 foreign climbers dead, 1 missing near top of Mount Everest [2017]
- Mount Everest's Hillary Step collapses, mountaineers confirm [2017]
- 85-Year-Old Dies Trying To Become Oldest Everest Climber [2017]
- Everest victim was out to prove 'vegans can do anything' [2016]
- Woman Trying to Prove 'Vegans Can Do Anything' Dies on Mount Everest [2016]
- Newsweek Disgracefully Links the Mt Everest Tragedy to Rising CO2 [2015]
- Edmund Hillary Would Be 'Horrified and Saddened' by Nepal Devastation-Daughter(Son Safe at Everest) [2015]
- Google Maps now lets you 'trek' Mount Everest on your computer (Very cool!) [2015]
- Decades of human waste have made Mount Everest a 'fecal time bomb' [2015]
- There are literally tons of human poop on Mount Everest [2015]
- Mount Everest and Pollution [2014]
- Graphic: A chronicle of all of the lives claimed by Mount Everest [2012]
- Lincoln Hall, mountaineer left on Everest, dies [2012]
- Intrade Founder John Delaney Dies On Mt. Everest [2011]
- Nepal Urged to Reduce Mount Everest Climbing Fee [2009]
- Brain swelling blamed in many Mount Everest deaths [2008]
- Nepalese Army and Police Ordered to Use Deadly Force to Stop Tibet Protests on Everest [2008]
- Nervous about Tibet, China bans Everest climbers [2008]
- Hillary comes clean about Sir Edmund : Admits she was not named for famous mountain climber [2006]
- Dying Brit climber 'too big' to rescue off Everest (the REAL story) [2006]
- Everest 2006: A message from the deathzone [2006]
- Conquering the Mountain - at a Price (Everest abandonment) [2006]
- EVEREST UPDATE: (David) Sharp unrescuable, says Chinese mountaineer (mom not angry) [2006]
- BREAKING: Everest rescue underway for Australian [2006]
- Climbers' Attitude Is 'Horrifying', Says Sir Edmund [2006]
- Everest Pioneer Climber Blasts Group Who Left Dying Man [2006]
- Everest climber left to die alone [2006]
- Scientists: Mt. Everest Only 29,017 Feet [2005]
- PRC Chinese Soldiers Fired on American Climbers in Nepal [2002]
- Beijing campaigns to rename Mt Everest as Mt Qomolangma [2002]
- No Longer Everest-Westerners Urged to Recognize Original Name of World's Highest Peak [2002]
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posted on
12/05/2019 9:21:58 AM PST
by
SunkenCiv
(Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
To: C19fan
This isn't Sir Edmund Hillary conquering the impossible, it's a cheap ride at a Disney wannabee tacky North Dakota carnival.
The whole bucket list for competitive bored white liberal elites is boring...
Get over it elites... we're NOT impressed....
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posted on
12/05/2019 9:34:06 AM PST
by
GOPJ
(Enemy combatants have more rights than this kangaroo Court gave our President.)
To: ArtDodger
Before there was an effort to clean up the place, I saw pictures of base camps that looked like land fills of garbage.....disgusting!
As a side note, each guide group should be required to salvage the body of anyone who dies and bring them back to the base instead of just leaving them behind.
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posted on
12/05/2019 9:38:48 AM PST
by
Hot Tabasco
(Never take a centipede shopping for shoes)
To: Politically Correct
Don’t forget they’ll have to grow their own potatoes and such in little pressurized tents heated and lit with only solar power.
To: bgill
I thought this would be about the border wall.
That was my first thought too....LOL!
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posted on
12/05/2019 9:41:20 AM PST
by
Hot Tabasco
(Never take a centipede shopping for shoes)
To: C19fan
But they wanted to feel good about accomplishing something. Do they still get participation trophies?/s
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posted on
12/05/2019 9:42:11 AM PST
by
Eleutheria5
(If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.)
To: LouAvul
It’s all the government’s fault for not providing an elevator. Let’s sue./s
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posted on
12/05/2019 9:43:23 AM PST
by
Eleutheria5
(If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.)
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