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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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Decadence....
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posted on
04/26/2020 6:18:19 AM PDT
by
C19fan
To: C19fan
Potential bumper material for Yacht Rock radio.
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posted on
04/26/2020 6:20:58 AM PDT
by
wally_bert
(Transmission tone, Selma.)
To: C19fan
Just build the chair lift already and get it over with.
3
posted on
04/26/2020 6:21:26 AM PDT
by
V_TWIN
To: C19fan
I want my Sherpa chair bearers like one woman had!
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posted on
04/26/2020 6:22:32 AM PDT
by
Dr. Ursus
To: wally_bert
Enjoy your stay in the Death Zone!
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posted on
04/26/2020 6:23:09 AM PDT
by
tet68
( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
To: V_TWIN
“Just build the chair lift already and get it over with.”
Most appropriate reply evah!
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posted on
04/26/2020 6:23:43 AM PDT
by
Da Coyote
To: V_TWIN
Enclosed multi-level escalator with plenty of windows, climate-controlled, and lots of muzak.
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posted on
04/26/2020 6:24:05 AM PDT
by
wally_bert
(Transmission tone, Selma.)
To: tet68
I saw the IMAX film on climbing Everest.
That was enough. I’m no mountaineer.
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posted on
04/26/2020 6:25:02 AM PDT
by
wally_bert
(Transmission tone, Selma.)
To: C19fan
The great-grandsons of the pioneers.
Liberty is always only a generation from extinction, and God has not grandchildren, but it takes a couple of generations for privileged snowflakes to think that they are doing something roughly the equivalent of people who lived on the edge while living in a security that the majority of people even today can only dream of.
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posted on
04/26/2020 6:25:30 AM PDT
by
Hieronymus
(“I shall drink to the Pope, if you please, still, to conscience first, and to the Pope afterwards.Â)
To: C19fan
Glamping? Shouldn’t it be “Glimbing”?
To: tet68
Maybe Dilbert’s company can be in charge?
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posted on
04/26/2020 6:28:08 AM PDT
by
wally_bert
(Transmission tone, Selma.)
To: wally_bert
And then you have to come down!
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posted on
04/26/2020 6:28:23 AM PDT
by
tet68
( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
To: C19fan
Leftist decadence. I can guarantee you very few on the right would get involved in this crap.
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posted on
04/26/2020 6:29:15 AM PDT
by
GrandJediMasterYoda
(As long as Hillary Clinton remains free equal justice under the law will never exist in the USA)
To: tet68
They always leave that descending thing out of the mountaineering films.
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posted on
04/26/2020 6:29:56 AM PDT
by
wally_bert
(Transmission tone, Selma.)
To: tet68
To: C19fan
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posted on
04/26/2020 6:30:27 AM PDT
by
moovova
To: C19fan
K2 is the climb for real men who don’t care about showing off to the ignorant on instagram.
To date, nobody has reached the summit in winter
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posted on
04/26/2020 6:30:35 AM PDT
by
varyouga
To: C19fan
From the children's book "Just a Dream" by Chris Van Allsburg (1990)
To: C19fan
Hey, I got an idea. How about instead they pay to have the base camp area cleaned up. Elite pigs.
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posted on
04/26/2020 6:33:31 AM PDT
by
rktman
( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
To: HartleyMBaldwin
Nah...no zipline needed...
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posted on
04/26/2020 6:34:21 AM PDT
by
moovova
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