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To: IronJack

I saw a show on Nova or something similar this year and they showed the ladders being lashed together and placed across the wide crevasse then a man going across to secure it. They talked about who died earlier doing this. A day or so later an avalanche happened and killed many people on the mountain where these Sherpa’s had been. They escaped but others did not.


36 posted on 05/19/2019 5:21:08 PM PDT by minnesota_bound
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To: minnesota_bound
That would probably be the Kumbu Icefall. It's just a big glacier, constantly moving, shifting, breaking up. Crevasses open up that can swallow a jetliner. It's one of the first steps up the South Face from Base Camp. And it's crossed dozens of times before the final assault.

No thanks.

39 posted on 05/19/2019 5:49:07 PM PDT by IronJack
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To: minnesota_bound

It’s “Khumbu.”


40 posted on 05/19/2019 6:42:10 PM PDT by IronJack
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