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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
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Amateurs got people killed.
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posted on
12/05/2019 6:27:40 AM PST
by
C19fan
To: C19fan
Just like in our New Military.
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posted on
12/05/2019 6:28:53 AM PST
by
a fool in paradise
(Recall that unqualified Hillary Clinton sat on the board of Wal-Mart when Bill Clinton was governor)
To: C19fan
not exactly the kind of spot where you'd expect to get stuck in a queue It's exactly the spot one should expect to wait in line. In fact, it's famous/notorious for that.
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posted on
12/05/2019 6:30:02 AM PST
by
LouAvul
To: C19fan
It’s funny how we’ve reached a point in modern civilization where climbing Everest is just a bucket list thing.
They should just build a nice lodge up there, with a really, REALLY long tram ride. :)
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posted on
12/05/2019 6:31:50 AM PST
by
cuban leaf
(The political war playing out in every country now: Globalists vs Nationalists)
To: LouAvul
A lot of people actually still think that it is a barren place where some guy every year or two might try to climb it. I was one of those people until just a few years ago.
I understand the path to the top is littered with frozen human bodies buried in the snow.
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posted on
12/05/2019 6:33:10 AM PST
by
cuban leaf
(The political war playing out in every country now: Globalists vs Nationalists)
To: C19fan
Not a good place to be inexperienced at climbing. Not at all. What the hell were they thinking?
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posted on
12/05/2019 6:33:54 AM PST
by
Bullish
(My tagline ran off with another man.)
To: cuban leaf
They should just build a nice lodge up there, with a really, REALLY long tram ride. :)
And a road to the top, so the lodge can sell bumper stickers that state "This car climbed Mt. Everest".
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posted on
12/05/2019 6:36:49 AM PST
by
Dr. Sivana
(There is no salvation in politics)
To: cuban leaf
I think it would be great if climbers were required to do a bit of community service and pick up trash to be bagged. Then, send up balloons to let the wind carry the trash away from the mountain. If coordinated, drones could catch the floating trash bags for proper disposal. Teams could gradually get rid of the bodies, too.
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posted on
12/05/2019 6:38:13 AM PST
by
ArtDodger
To: C19fan
I have enough danger and adventure just trying out a new Chinese buffet.
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posted on
12/05/2019 6:41:17 AM PST
by
SIDENET
(ISAIAH 5:20)
To: Dr. Sivana
HAHAHA! Excellent!
‘Course, it would have to be pressurized.
Though we can not make light of just how inhospitable it really is up there, I think we really are headed in that direction. I think the only thing stopping it is the politics of the area it’s in. If it were in the US, there would already be a Trump tower there. Maybe not at the top, but at various way points on the way to the top. Solar and wind powered, of course. :)
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posted on
12/05/2019 6:47:48 AM PST
by
cuban leaf
(The political war playing out in every country now: Globalists vs Nationalists)
To: ArtDodger
I think it would be great if climbers were required to do a bit of community service and pick up trash to be bagged.Make it part of the acclimatization process as the climbers do that cycle of going part way up the mountain and then returning to a lower camp. A climber is only allowed to try for the summit after doing their community service.
The problem is that neither Nepal nor Tibet have any desire to limit the lucrative climbing permits that are issued for Everest. Anything that stands in the way of collecting fees will be opposed.
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posted on
12/05/2019 6:48:14 AM PST
by
CommerceComet
(Hillary: A unique blend of arrogance, incompetence, and corruption.)
To: ArtDodger
Teams could gradually get rid of the bodies, too.
But what would stranded teams eat?
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posted on
12/05/2019 6:49:51 AM PST
by
cuban leaf
(The political war playing out in every country now: Globalists vs Nationalists)
To: C19fan
It’s sad and sobering, that there are numerous dead bodies up there, which are never retrieved.
How sad for their loved ones, that people die up there on this great adventure of climbing a mountain.
To: cuban leaf
. If it were in the US, there would already be a Trump tower there.
Don't forget the QuikTrip gas stations and the Burger Kings rest stops. The gas stations would only be on the right side of the road. You can coast down.
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posted on
12/05/2019 6:55:13 AM PST
by
Dr. Sivana
(There is no salvation in politics)
To: C19fan
Photo taken May 22, 2019 and released by climber Nirmal Purja's Project Possible expedition, showing dangerous traffic jam above Everest's deadly comp 4.
To: Dilbert San Diego
BS. No sympathy is to be wasted on loved ones. To attract sympathy, the loved ones should have prevented the frivolous endeavor
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posted on
12/05/2019 6:56:45 AM PST
by
bert
( (KE. NP. N.C. +12) Progressives are existential American enemies)
To: cuban leaf
I understand the path to the top is littered with frozen human bodies buried in the snow.Not all are buried under the snow. Many are visible.
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posted on
12/05/2019 6:59:19 AM PST
by
al_c
(Democrats: Party over Common Sense)
To: C19fan
Mount Everest....Forbidding...Aloof...Terrifying...The mountain with the biggest tits in the world.
*GONG* START AGAIN!
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posted on
12/05/2019 6:59:51 AM PST
by
dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: cuban leaf
The closest environment to that of Mars is the top of Everest. Let’s see them put a settlement there at the top of the mountain and resupply it from low earth orbit.
Rescue climbers at a million bucks each as a side business.
To: cuban leaf
Its funny how weve reached a point in modern civilization where climbing Everest is just a bucket list thing.At my age, it would be the LAST item in the bucket.
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