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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....
1 posted on 04/26/2020 6:18:19 AM PDT by C19fan
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Potential bumper material for Yacht Rock radio.


2 posted on 04/26/2020 6:20:58 AM PDT by wally_bert (Transmission tone, Selma.)
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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
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I want my Sherpa chair bearers like one woman had!


4 posted on 04/26/2020 6:22:32 AM PDT by Dr. Ursus
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To: wally_bert

Enjoy your stay in the Death Zone!


5 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.)
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“Just build the chair lift already and get it over with.”

Most appropriate reply evah!


6 posted on 04/26/2020 6:23:43 AM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: V_TWIN

Enclosed multi-level escalator with plenty of windows, climate-controlled, and lots of muzak.


7 posted on 04/26/2020 6:24:05 AM PDT by wally_bert (Transmission tone, Selma.)
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To: tet68

I saw the IMAX film on climbing Everest.

That was enough. I’m no mountaineer.


8 posted on 04/26/2020 6:25:02 AM PDT by wally_bert (Transmission tone, Selma.)
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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.


9 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)
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Glamping? Shouldn’t it be “Glimbing”?


10 posted on 04/26/2020 6:25:44 AM PDT by Calvin Locke
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To: tet68

Maybe Dilbert’s company can be in charge?


11 posted on 04/26/2020 6:28:08 AM PDT by wally_bert (Transmission tone, Selma.)
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And then you have to come down!


12 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.)
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Leftist decadence. I can guarantee you very few on the right would get involved in this crap.


13 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)
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To: tet68

They always leave that descending thing out of the mountaineering films.


14 posted on 04/26/2020 6:29:56 AM PDT by wally_bert (Transmission tone, Selma.)
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To: tet68

Need a zipline.


15 posted on 04/26/2020 6:30:17 AM PDT by HartleyMBaldwin
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To: C19fan

That’s just wrong.


16 posted on 04/26/2020 6:30:27 AM PDT by moovova
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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


17 posted on 04/26/2020 6:30:35 AM PDT by varyouga
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From the children's book "Just a Dream" by Chris Van Allsburg (1990)
18 posted on 04/26/2020 6:30:36 AM PDT by VanDeKoik
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Hey, I got an idea. How about instead they pay to have the base camp area cleaned up. Elite pigs.


19 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?)
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Nah...no zipline needed...


20 posted on 04/26/2020 6:34:21 AM PDT by moovova
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