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Peak comfort: Climbers can now scale Mount Everest in luxury including gourmet meals, drinks at bars and glamping in tents - and even 5G reception at the summit
UK Daily Mail ^
| April 25, 2020
| Harry Howard
Posted on 04/26/2020 6:18:19 AM PDT by C19fan
When Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay reached the summit of Mount Everest in 1953 they wore woollen suits and wielded wood-handled ice axes. But today's climbers can now enjoy luxury tents, bars and gourmet meals and even 5G mobile reception at the summit. Lukas Furtenbach, the founder of firm Furtenbach Adventures, which specialises in upmarket expeditions, said every climber gets a tent boasting a bed, electricity and even wifi.
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TOPICS: Outdoors; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: luxury; mountain
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To: ichabod1
could build a pressurizable cabin cog railway all the way up to the top.The Europeans beat them to it. You can either climb up the north face of the Eiger or take the Jungfraujoch railroad up the mountain.
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posted on
04/26/2020 7:16:55 AM PDT
by
CommerceComet
(Hillary: A unique blend of arrogance, incompetence, and corruption.)
To: gbunch
It’s a firsthand account of how weather, financial pressure, equipment failures, etc all came together to produce a tragedy that killed 8 climbers in a single day. Yes, great read. People on the mountain who had no business being there also played a huge part in the tragedy.
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posted on
04/26/2020 7:24:37 AM PDT
by
KevinB
("Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge." - Charles Darwin)
To: LittleBillyInfidel
I did Everest TWICE - Mary Lynn Everest. Didnt even use a Sherpa!As long as she didn't look like a Sherpa
To: Da Coyote
👍
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posted on
04/26/2020 7:40:35 AM PDT
by
V_TWIN
To: CommerceComet
Really, been looking to find some youtube movies or such on it, but there isnt much out there.
Maybe it’s too risky.
But it sounds interesting to read about.
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posted on
04/26/2020 7:42:41 AM PDT
by
TexasM1A
To: tet68
Nice boots.
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posted on
04/26/2020 7:51:23 AM PDT
by
Bonemaker
(invictus maneo)
To: rktman
Or retrieve all the dead bodies littering the trail along with cleaning up the trash?
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posted on
04/26/2020 7:52:55 AM PDT
by
metmom
(...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith..)
To: MuttTheHoople
#metoo. 😂
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posted on
04/26/2020 7:57:58 AM PDT
by
rktman
( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
To: moovova
Highest base jump on record, 23,668' elevation off Mt. Everest.
To: LittleBillyInfidel
Were you on top or did Everest mount you?
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posted on
04/26/2020 8:18:41 AM PDT
by
Cooter
(Radicals always try to force crises because in a crisis, everyone must choose sides. - J. Goldberg)
To: KevinB; Cooter; MuttTheHoople; Deaf Smith; gas_dr; wally_bert
I hesitated posting my stupid gag, but you guys made it all worthwhile. LOL OMG!
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posted on
04/26/2020 9:33:28 AM PDT
by
LittleBillyInfidel
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To: LittleBillyInfidel
It was funny and a well needed laugh. Well played
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posted on
04/26/2020 9:36:25 AM PDT
by
gas_dr
(Trial lawyers AND POLITICIANS are Endangering Every Patient in America: INCLUDING THEIR LIBERTIES)
To: LittleBillyInfidel
To: LittleBillyInfidel
To: C19fan
If you want all the comforts of home, stay home.
To: Rebelbase; moovova
‘Helps to have insurance with NHS.
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posted on
04/26/2020 9:57:19 AM PDT
by
Does so
(Call it the CCP-virus...The Corona-virus dies in Summer's sunlight! But next spring's Chinese virus?)
To: C19fan
The good old days
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posted on
04/26/2020 10:07:57 AM PDT
by
xp38
To: mad_as_he$$
Did you summit? Ha ha ha ha! YES! (but, strangely, no one ever talks about the descent.)
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posted on
04/26/2020 10:15:31 AM PDT
by
LittleBillyInfidel
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To: LittleBillyInfidel
Descents are anti-climatic.
To: C19fan
Won’t be much longer and they’ll have funicular tram taking you to the Top Of the World Hilton. Aside from the view, I’m not sure the feat even comes with bragging rights anymore.
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posted on
04/26/2020 11:00:07 AM PDT
by
IronJack
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