Oh my Good Lord, prayers up. What an incredible nightmare!
But, hiking up Everest is dangerous - very dangerous.
One of my very favorite books is Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer.
In it, the author describes the dangers of climbing Everest - the death zone where there is little oxygen, the sudden, blinding storms, the sherpas and their role in the climbs. Fascinating for everyone.
I was pleased to see an excerpt from that book in the new, state-approved 9th grade English textbooks.
I understand another movie is being made from this book.
How ironic that Discovery Channel is running a series called “Elevation” which is about climbing Mt Everest. Pretty crazy stuff...
The place already looks like a Mississippi highway right of way with all of the litter from the treks up and down Everest over the years. This is going to make it look ever worse. People are going to be climbing Everest over trash heaps in the near future.
Cruel irony. Facing the dangerous challenges of climbing the world’s tallest mountain, they are hit with.....an earthquake. May they rest in peace.
Tectonic Plate activity cause Mt Everest and the chain to rise at a rate of one centimeter a year which is huge amount geologically. When stuff shifts earthquakes happen. It’s not global warming, its not George Bush , its just the earth going thru its growing pains.
I am sorry Edmund Hillary would be upset. I am sure God is upset with the way we humans mock him and his people...He is seen in the earthquake wind and fire...Just saying
Freegards
LEX
A frac caused the earthquake. The one in kansas
It's not like they didn't know that death was a major factor
by climbing this stupid mountain to bolster their Egos.