Posted on 05/09/2015 11:18:58 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Mount Everest record holder Apa Sherpa ran for his life when a huge earthquake hit Nepal, and now fears for the future after the disaster cut short the climbing season for the second year in a row.
Everyone here is scared and depressed, we have lost everything, the climber told AFP by telephone from Thame, deep in the Everest region, one of the villages that is home to the Sherpa ethnic group.
The tight-knit community of around 50 families has produced some of the worlds greatest mountaineers, including Sherpa, who is something of a celebrity having reached the top of Everest a record 21 times.
Sherpas, thought to be of Tibetan origin, have a long and proud history of mountaineering, and the term today is used for all Nepalese high-altitude porters and guides assisting climbing expeditions.
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He still has his life. That’s more than everything else combined.
Yeah, and next year people will be paying thousands for this guy to take them up a predetermined path, all with anchors already placed, safety lines set up, and ladders and boards placed over crevasses.
Sherpas make thousands a year, they live for little to nothing.
Sounds like this guy is just whining, he should have plenty of money from years of taking gullible white men up to the top. Not to mention all the fees, taxes, and other expenses it costs to climb Everest. I call BS.
I’m sure there are many who didn’t survive the avalanche who would be thrilled to have back their lives.
I mean, it’s a tragedy, but he’s got to look at it like he walked away from an airplane crash alive.
People lose their lives all the time on Everest.
They know the risks going up. He acts like he’s surprised or something.
The guy could probably live a very comfortable life 2 times over with the amount of money he has been paid. “Lost everything?” He lost nothing.
It hardly seems like much of an accomplishment anymore making it to the top of Everest. Not sure why people do it... “Oh, look at me, I’m the 489th fat a$$ Sherpas dragged up to the summit of Everest. It was hard, too. I panted all the way. Could’ve died. You could never afford it.”
14 year olds go up Everest now.
Earthquakes giveth and earthquakes taketh...
There should also be "No Littering" signs too.......
The Sherpas seem to be getting angrier too.
http://www.adventure-journal.com/2013/05/as-details-emerge-everest-conflict-looks-uglier/
The real mountain climbers go up K2.
The two sides have been squabbling from the beginning.
I read Tenzing Norgay's Tiger of the Snows when I was a teenager and I believe it was in that book (could've been something I read later, though; it's been a long time) the question came up as to who helped whom up the last few feet to the summit.
Hillary claimed Norgay was too exhausted to make it and collapsed at his, Hillary's, feet as Hillary stepped onto the summit. Hillary claimed that he bent over, grabbed Norgay by the back of his harness and hoisted him up to the top. Norgay pretty much claimed the opposite. Caused quite a lifelong rift between the two and I'm sure lots of Sherpas felt all Sherpas had been slighted. But publicly it was all smiles and cordiality between Hillary and his climbing partner.
Later a spokesman for the two said they had done it together as a team, and that no one was first and that no one carried anyone.
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LOL, that’s right, she did claim that, didn’t she? Even though the old hag was born years before the climb, lol.
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