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Two Climbers Die on Everest, Toll Reaches 7
Channel News Asia ^ | The summit of Mount Everest shrouded in cloud. (Photo: AFP/Sebastien Berger) 18 May 2023

Posted on 05/22/2023 2:20:08 PM PDT by nickcarraway

Two more climbers have died on Everest, expedition organisers said on Thursday (May 18), bringing the number of deaths on the world's highest peak this spring climbing season to seven.

The latest fatalities were a 58-year-old Indian woman who said before her expedition that she had a pacemaker, and a Nepali member of a team clearing trash from the mountain.

Suzanne Leopoldina Jesus died at a hospital in the Nepal town of Lukla after the Indian mountaineer was airlifted from base camp due to illness.

(Excerpt) Read more at channelnewsasia.com ...


TOPICS: Hobbies; Local News; Outdoors
KEYWORDS: everest; mounteverest
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To: llevrok
If you have enough money, you can find a guide to pull you up Everest and down it regardless of your climbing ability (if any at all).


21 posted on 05/22/2023 2:44:47 PM PDT by Pilsner
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To: srmanuel

I’ve watched the documentaryies. The latest climbers are no more qualified to climb Everest than me, and my tallest climb was a 12 foot ladder.


22 posted on 05/22/2023 2:46:42 PM PDT by nikos1121
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To: nickcarraway

Once you get above 8000 meters you’re in the death zone.

from wiki

In mountaineering, the death zone refers to altitudes above a certain point where the pressure of oxygen is insufficient to sustain human life for an extended time span. This point is generally tagged as 8,000 m (26,000 ft, less than 356 millibars [10.5 inHg; 5.16 psi] of atmospheric pressure).[1] The concept was conceived in 1953 by Edouard Wyss-Dunant, a Swiss doctor, who called it the lethal zone.[2] All 14 peaks above 8000 m in the death zone are located in the Himalaya and Karakoram of Asia.

Many deaths in high-altitude mountaineering have been caused by the effects of the death zone, either directly by loss of vital functions or indirectly by wrong decisions made under stress, or physical weakening leading to accidents. An extended stay above 8,000 m (26,000 ft) without supplementary oxygen will result in deterioration of bodily functions and death.


23 posted on 05/22/2023 2:47:05 PM PDT by xp38
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To: Renfrew

Green boots.


24 posted on 05/22/2023 2:49:41 PM PDT by VTenigma (Conspiracy theory is the new "spoiler alert")
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To: DannyTN

Most likely the do not that got them was, do not allow the battery to get too cold, a la electric cars.


25 posted on 05/22/2023 2:49:59 PM PDT by Ingtar
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To: xp38

Cerebral edema, a very unpleasant way to go. Freezing to death is more peaceful.


26 posted on 05/22/2023 2:52:58 PM PDT by VTenigma (Conspiracy theory is the new "spoiler alert")
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To: DannyTN

““Suzanne Leopoldina Jesus, from Maharashtra, was on a mission to become the first Asian woman on a pacemaker to scale Mount Everest.””

One of many reasons I stopped reading National Geographic many years ago. The magazine became filled with stories on the first paraplegic, etc. to reach the South Pole, plus Climate Change, Climate Change, Climate Change, Climate Change, etc.


27 posted on 05/22/2023 2:56:04 PM PDT by nomorelurker
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To: nickcarraway

My brother reached the summit of Mt. McKinley. Although it’s about two miles lower than Everest, it is difficult to climb, and he was the only member of his team to get to the top. It can only be climbed a few weeks of the year.


28 posted on 05/22/2023 2:57:07 PM PDT by Fiji Hill
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To: srmanuel

I’ve read several books on the ascent and attempted ascent of Everest, and it seems to me a lot of folks who make the attempt have no business doing so. Bad stuff can happen when the unqualified make such attempts. Hell, even the very qualified can run into trouble, as the mountain is an unforgiving bitch.


29 posted on 05/22/2023 2:57:17 PM PDT by ought-six (Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule. )
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To: VTenigma

Given Everest is the tallest mountain above sea level when you cross over the 26,000 ft level and enter this death zone you still have 3000 more vertical ft to climb in the thinnest air on the planet while still touching terra firma.


30 posted on 05/22/2023 3:00:47 PM PDT by xp38
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To: nikos1121

They Said It Could Not Be Done - By Benny Hill

They said that it could not be done,
He said, “Just let me try.”
They said, ‘Other men have tried and failed’,
He answered, ‘But not I.’
They said, “It is impossible,”
He said, “There’s no such word.”
He closed his mind, he closed his heart...
To everything he heard.

He said, “Within the heart of man,
There is a tiny seed.
It grows until it blossoms,
It’s called ‘The Will To Succeed’.
Its roots are strength, its stem is hope,
Its petals inspiration,
Its thorns protect its strong green leaves,
With grim determination.

“It’s stamens are its skills
Which help to shape each plan,
For there’s nothing in the universe
Beyond the scope of man.”

They thought that it could not be done,
Some even said they knew it,
But he faced up to what could not be done...

.....And he couldn’t bloody do it!


31 posted on 05/22/2023 3:02:25 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Tijeras_Slim

Darwin Award convention.


32 posted on 05/22/2023 3:04:13 PM PDT by P-Marlowe (I got the <ΙΧΘΥΣ>< variant. Catch it. John 3:16)
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To: nikos1121

Getting to the base camp at around 17,500 ft can probably be done by most people in good physical condition, but the last camp before attempting the summit is around 26,000 ft. I can’t imagine most unqualified people making to that level much less the summit.


33 posted on 05/22/2023 3:06:54 PM PDT by srmanuel
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To: V_TWIN
I actually met a cardiologist who made three attempts to summit Everest, and was successful at two of them. I had one of my telescopes up for sale, and he offered to come and pick it up rather than having it shipped to his location. He flew to where I was in his own airplane and brought it from me. I would’ve loved to listened to his stories about climbing Everest, but he had to leave right away and fly back home. He summited the mountain on his first attempt, and after I met him, he aborted on his second attempt (running low on oxygen), and was successful on the third attempt. What an amazing encounter it was. To have so much money to be able to pursue your dreams…
34 posted on 05/22/2023 3:11:03 PM PDT by telescope115 (I NEED MY SPACE!!! 🔭)
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To: ought-six

Into Thin Air was one of the most gripping books I read.


35 posted on 05/22/2023 3:24:04 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
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To: ought-six

I saw a National Geographic documentary some years ago about two British accomplished mountain climbers, George Mallory and Andrew Irvine who tried to summit Everest without oxygen and perished. It was 1924.

Fast forward to 1999, and an expedition was mounted to find them. They expected to find Irvine, but found Mallory instead. They covered what was left of him with stones, and took personal effects to forward to his family.

They were hoping to find Irvine, because he had a camera on him which could possibly provide some information about wether or not they had actually summited the mountain, some 30 years ahead of Sir Edmond Hillary and his guide.

A fascinating, and tragic, story.


36 posted on 05/22/2023 3:27:03 PM PDT by telescope115 (I NEED MY SPACE!!! 🔭)
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To: Tijeras_Slim

Damn that’s funny.


37 posted on 05/22/2023 3:28:50 PM PDT by Falcon4.0
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To: nickcarraway

The “Into Thin Air” story continues. That mountain is VERY good at killing people.


38 posted on 05/22/2023 3:31:18 PM PDT by TChad (Progressives are in favor of removing healthy sex organs from children. Conservatives oppose this.)
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To: nickcarraway
Rugged individualists scaling Mount Everest just like Sir Edmund Hilary.

Impressive. 🤡


39 posted on 05/22/2023 3:31:48 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is ████ █ ██████ ███████ ███ ██████ ██ ████████. FJB.)
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To: dfwgator

I’m reminded of the frozen woman in K2 movie 🎥


40 posted on 05/22/2023 3:32:12 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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