Posted on 05/19/2019 2:42:22 AM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
Modern guide companies combined with technology have opened up Everest to more and more people. Really no criteria - many will be sorted out well before they reach the death zone. The warning here is to capable climber/athletes to be wary of fellow climbers. The more shortcuts they have taken to this point, the more red flags.
Thakar and Irish Professor Seamus Lawless, who is missing, were among team members who reached the peak of the mountain on Thursday together with Khumalo, who became the first black African woman to achieve such a feat.
Just a faint message about the Indian National and Irish Pof. that also bit the big one
And now they are all dead and for what really?
Oh, and you guys, we're sure you'd understand. Your remains will have to just remain where they are, frozen for eternity or until the warm oceans rise to your altitude and wash you away... the air up there is a little thin for a helicopter to come up and lift you out.
Anybody trying ventures like this, is worthy of my respect.
They are.
All of them were in a commercial climbing group, paid to be there, and knew the risks. It wasn’t the woman’s group any more than it was the Irishman’s group or the Indian guy’s group. The guides run the show.
This situation is a 29,029 foot lesson that political correctness kills, and it's really not a problem for it to kill.
The black lady made it, tough stuff for you other guys. Check out her studio portrait posing with her ice axe. What a beautiful day for diversity.
Because she's hyped her trip and gotten press attention.
This situation is a 29,029 foot lesson that political correctness kills, and it's really not a problem for it to kill.
Political correctness had nothing to do with it. The same thing happens all the time to all male, all white Everest groups. People die on Everest on a regular basis. And there's nothing to suggest that an Irishman falling off the mountain, or an Indian dying in his tent, presumably of altitude related illness, had anything to do with the presence of a black woman in the same group.
The black lady made it, tough stuff for you other guys. Check out her studio portrait posing with her ice axe. What a beautiful day for diversity.
Ya pays yer money, ya takes yer chances.
Irish climber goes missing on Mount Everest after reaching peak
"The Himalayan Times is reporting that Lawless fell from a balcony area at an altitude of 27,000 feet. He had made it to the summit on Thursday morning.
The Himalayan Times also reported, “Mingma Sherpa, Chairman at Seven Summit Treks, told THT that Seamus Sean Lawless, 39, one of the members of an eight-member expedition led by renowned Irish climber Noel Richard Hanna, went missing after he reportedly fell from an altitude of 8,300 m while descending from the summit.”
The reason this article focuses on the South African woman is because this is from a South African news source.
Chilly? Understatement of the year.
That was enough excitement for me, though I'd like to Hike the Narrows at Zion. I just turned 65, so I'm not as adventurous as I was.
Kanab is a great staging area for a vacation in Southern Utah. You're within a two hour drive of several NPs: Zion, Bryce, Grand Escalante Staircase, and North Rim of the Grand Canyon. During that trip, we also went on a horse ride just outside of Bryce Canyon.
These deaths are very unfortunate, I don’t like to hear that happening to anyone. That said, they are not tragic as the dangers are well known and these folks were well aware of the risks when they chose to go on this adventure. Props to those that make the climb and come home safely as it’s no mean feat to enter that environment.
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