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The mad dash to scale Everest: Video shows huge 'traffic jam' of climbers snaking up ice-covered slopes in 'weather window rush hour' as two more go missing days after Brit, 40, and Sherpa disappeared near summit
UK Daily Mail ^ | May 23, 2024 | David Averre and Elena Salvoni

Posted on 05/23/2024 4:09:43 AM PDT by C19fan

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To: C19fan

Mount Everest...Forbidding, Aloof, Terrifying.....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0F2SJS6B1wQ


21 posted on 05/23/2024 5:28:53 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: C19fan

That sounds about as much fun as going into a cave in pure blackness.


22 posted on 05/23/2024 5:52:23 AM PDT by roving (Deplorable Erectionists Listless Vessel )
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To: C19fan

Some of the people who attempt to climb Mount Everest are environmentally conscious and vocal advocates for addressing climate change and pollution. However, when I see photos of traffic jams, trash, and dead bodies on the mountain, it strikes me as hypocritical, and I believe the climb should be banned. It seems that ordinary people might have more sense than some of these environmentalists.


23 posted on 05/23/2024 5:55:22 AM PDT by DEPcom (DC is not my Capitol after Jan 6th lock downs.)
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To: C19fan

Can anyone imagine just how many 5 gal buckets of human waste and dead bodies are filling up the mountain?


24 posted on 05/23/2024 6:11:04 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: C19fan

It’s a big business with lots of customers willing to pay.


25 posted on 05/23/2024 6:14:13 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: Netz
Waiting in line to finally scale the magic mountain? Absurd.

Maybe waiting in line for hours is a great way to network with stupid money people and make connections. If a failed Instagram princess wants to meet a rich adventurer, using a euphoric assist from severe oxygen deprivation, it could be love at first sight, or maybe just brain damage.

26 posted on 05/23/2024 6:14:15 AM PDT by Reeses
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To: quantim

Dozens of dead bodies frozen and left for later.

This is stupidity.


27 posted on 05/23/2024 6:20:00 AM PDT by Delta 21 (If anyone is treasonous, it is those who call me such.)
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To: C19fan
Climbing permits and climbing expeditions are one of the primary sources of revenue in Nepal. The people are desperately poor and working on a climbing expedition for a couple of months can provide a good income for a year.

The locals don't share Western aesthetics so they have little incentive to reduce the number of climbers.

28 posted on 05/23/2024 6:48:00 AM PDT by pierrem15 ("Massacrez-les, car le seigneur connait les siens" )
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To: C19fan
I would add that people for some reason seem to be consistently underestimating the chances of death from altitude sickness and how oxygen deprivation affects not only the brain but the body's ability to produce heat and circulation in the extremities, particularly when you add the physical stress of climbing.

Add to oxygen deprivation the threat of changing weather trapping you in frigid cold at high altitude or avalanche and the threat of death is non-trivial for almost every climb.

29 posted on 05/23/2024 6:56:32 AM PDT by pierrem15 ("Massacrez-les, car le seigneur connait les siens" )
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To: C19fan

My brother climbed to the top of Mt. McKinley. He was the only member of his climbing party to make it to the top.


30 posted on 05/23/2024 7:01:05 AM PDT by Fiji Hill
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To: quilterdebbie

“I went through a phase where I read the Everest and K2 books about various expeditions. Ugh, no more!”

Me too. When Krakauer’s book INTO THIN AIR came out.


31 posted on 05/23/2024 7:29:21 AM PDT by bravo whiskey (Annie Savoy : The world is made for people who aren't cursed with self awareness. )
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To: C19fan

Yeah, they’d better hurry before global warming melts Mount Everest.


32 posted on 05/23/2024 7:42:19 AM PDT by libertylover (Our biggest problem, by far, is that almost all of big media is AGENDA-DRIVEN, not-truth driven.)
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To: C19fan

do they go down a back trail or do they have to go back down the line they just came up???


33 posted on 05/23/2024 7:56:36 AM PDT by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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To: Chad C. Mulligan

And the auroras earlier this month.


34 posted on 05/23/2024 7:57:07 AM PDT by pas
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To: C19fan; MtnClimber

Ping!........................


35 posted on 05/23/2024 8:17:30 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: rlmorel

That would be a good way to get rid of the bodies scattered around up there.


36 posted on 05/23/2024 8:26:04 AM PDT by dgbrown
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To: dgbrown

Eeek!!!!

I had a hot dog once at a Nathan’s at a rest area on the New Jersey Turnpike that had a texture as if it had been made from one of those desiccated corpses found up there!


37 posted on 05/23/2024 8:59:14 AM PDT by rlmorel (In Today's Democrat America, The $5 Dollar Bill is the New $1 Dollar Bill.)
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To: HartleyMBaldwin

I don’t have a problem with doing it, even if I do have a problem with the necessity of rescue teams who sometimes have to get involved.

It is one thing if you go out for a hike and get lost in the woods and need rescuing.

It is quite another when you engage in something where you are rappelling up the side of a 15,000 foot mountain and they have to call in some rescue jumpers.

Even still, I accept it. We rescue people who need it...:)


38 posted on 05/23/2024 9:16:19 AM PDT by rlmorel (In Today's Democrat America, The $5 Dollar Bill is the New $1 Dollar Bill.)
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To: Delta 21

I left that gruesome part out, read somewhere years ago on average 2 people DIE every year. Also it is said there is an underground ‘market’ for those with bucks to buy their way to the front of line so to speak and other nefarious activities.


39 posted on 05/23/2024 10:16:41 AM PDT by quantim (Victory is not relative, it is absolute. )
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To: quantim
I left that gruesome part out, read somewhere years ago on average 2 people DIE every yearJust over 4/year with something like 200 bodies left on Everest.
40 posted on 05/23/2024 10:20:58 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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