As for the Kerds, I don't think they would mess with a US expedition right now. We would have to include some Turks for the permissions. Might as well send in the I-Max team as well just for fun.
If anything were there it would have been discovered long ago. Think of the tourist dollars Turkey could rake in.
Lets just push Geraldo out of a helicopter and let him look.
As an semi-experienced mountain climber, I don't quite understand the problem with THIS. The three biggest excuses are:
1) Ark is high on a big mountain. Ridiculous! If my memory serves me right its been estimated to be at 12,000 ft. This is not very high at all. I did weekend vacation climbs in the Sierra Nevadas in Calif. at 14,000 ft, just for fun.
2) The area of the mountain is hard to get to and the ark is hard to find. Anyone ever hear of Global Positioning Satellites. In addition, an expedition was just completed by the National Geographic Society that surveyed the ENTIRE NORTH FACE OF MOUNT EVEREST (thats 25,000 to 29,000 ft for those who don't know), looking for the body of George Mallory and his climbing partner lost in 1923!!!!!!!!!! They found his body too!
3) Its a dangerous, terrorist-infested area. Completely stupid. How many terrorists have you heard of hanging out on a glaciated slope at 12,000 ft.
This whole controversy is no controversy at all and is beginning to bore me................but it does make good grist for Art Bell.
LOL! Now that's the way to do it!