Posted on 04/26/2015 3:34:52 PM PDT by jimbo123
At least 22 climbers have died and 217 others were missing near the base camp of Mt Everest where hundreds of climbers, including many foreigners, are stranded after an avalanche triggered by Nepal's massive earthquake swept down the world's highest peak.
More than 60 climbers were injured and many foreign adventurers, hikers and guides at the base camp were feared missing when the avalanche swept down the Everest and buried under snow a section of the mountaineering camp yesterday.
While 17 people were killed at the base camp, five more casualties were reported on Sunday from areas below the base camp, home ministry officials said.
"Tents have been blown away," Gelu Sherpa, who was at the camp when disaster struck, said, adding, "There is a lot of confusion on the mountain and the toll will rise."
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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...
High risk stuff for sure.
I just finished the book by Jamling Tenzing Norgay, son of the Sherpa who climbed Everest with the New Zealand explorer who had the same name as Bill Clinton’s wife. ;-)
Highly recommended.
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.
Great book. One lesson I got from reading it is that many of the climbers on Everest have more money than mountaineering skills. They use that money to pay someone to get them to the top so they can add another check to their list of accomplishments. When things go wrong, they’re not prepared and people get killed.
Also, it looks like many of them got hit while in their tents in the camps, not while climbing.
Didn’t Hillary *gag* claim that she was named after Sir Edmund Hillary?
Is there anything Hillary *gag* won’t lie about??
She used the famous Clintonian language parsing technique give her an out if called on it.
She never said “I was named after Ed Hillary”
she said
“My mother told me I was named after Ed Hillary”
Eventually, the government is going to shut it down. They'd do it now if not for the money it brings in. The whole place is trashed.
Out of morbid curiosity, I wonder if the avalanche brought down any of the countless bodies of climbers that have been left frozen on Everest for decades.
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
6 months training in Denver and $50k for gear and sherpas can buy you a summit.
A few million bucks and name recognition from your ancestor’s department store chain can buy you the MN governor’s office.
the thing I took from “Into Thin Air” was the scathing look at how these climbing expeditions are set up, and that would be because of the MONEY....people totally unqualified but rich being allowed to “climb” Mt Everest even though they had little skill....ultimately, it lead to disaster for even the trained climbers...
Actually, God was NOT in the earthquake, wind and fire:
(1 Kings 19:11) The Lord said, “Go out and stand on the mountain in the presence of the Lord, for the Lord is about to pass by.”
Then a great and powerful wind tore the mountains apart and shattered the rocks before the Lord, but the Lord was not in the wind. After the wind there was an earthquake, but the Lord was not in the earthquake.
(12) After the earthquake came a fire, but the Lord was not in the fire.
And after the fire came a gentle whisper. (13) When Elijah heard it, he pulled his cloak over his face and went out and stood at the mouth of the cave. Then a voice said to him, “What are you doing here, Elijah?”
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