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2023-08-15 -Short Attention Span Theater-

Climbing Mount Everest - The Queue At Khumbu Icefall

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Posted by Besoeker 2023-08-15 00:00|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [11125 views ] Top

#1 more importantly ,the beer get more expensive the higher up you go too

Posted by 746 2023-08-15 02:56|| 2023-08-15 02:56|| Front Page Top

#2 ...Not sure if it was covered here at the 'Burg, but a week or so back there was a horrifying story about one of the Sherpa guides who fell ill and collapsed along the trail...and not a single one of those hundreds of climbers did anything to help him, so he died there. There's pics/video of climbers walking past him.

The Nepalese are of very mixed feelings about Everest tourism - on the one hand, it is an important source of revenue for a nation that unfortunately has damned little else to offer. On the other hand, most of the Everest tourists treat the place like a private campground that somebody else has to clean up, and they often treat the Sherpas with the same attitude.

Were I king for a day, Everest would be off limits for most of the time, and then access would be very tightly controlled.

Mike

Posted by MikeKozlowski 2023-08-15 06:38|| 2023-08-15 06:38|| Front Page Top

#3 /\

.....and not a single one of those hundreds of climbers did anything to help him, so he died there. There's pics/video of climbers walking past him.

Don't think it was posted on the Burg, possible elsewhere.... some time ago.

Posted by Besoeker 2023-08-15 06:50|| 2023-08-15 06:50|| Front Page Top

#4 I think the incident with the dying Sherpa porter was on K2, not Everest.

Posted by MW 2023-08-15 07:16|| 2023-08-15 07:16|| Front Page Top

#5 Probe is launched into death of K2 climber near peak of the world's most dangerous mountain amid outrage at video showing thrill-seekers 'stepping over dying porter'

Posted by Skidmark 2023-08-15 10:09|| 2023-08-15 10:09|| Front Page Top

#6 Norwegian climber says it would have been impossible to carry injured Pakistani porter down snowy K2

Posted by Skidmark 2023-08-15 10:11|| 2023-08-15 10:11|| Front Page Top

#7 life gets pretty cheap above 20,000 feet, just sayin'

Posted by 746 2023-08-15 14:17|| 2023-08-15 14:17|| Front Page Top

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