Posted on 05/27/2019 6:14:45 AM PDT by C19fan
Ed Dohring, a doctor from Arizona, had dreamed his whole life of reaching the top of Mount Everest. But when he summited a few days ago, he was shocked by what he saw.
Climbers were pushing and shoving to take selfies. The flat part of the summit, which he estimated at about the size of two Ping-Pong tables, was packed with 15 or 20 people. To get up there, he had to wait hours in a line, chest to chest, one puffy jacket after the next, on an icy, rocky ridge with a several-thousand foot drop. He even had to step around the body of a woman who had just died.
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The guy speculated that Cook was actually somewhere not far off the coast of Ellesmere Island instead of standing within 50 miles of the North Pole.
There are a number of routes to the summit but obviously that is the easiest one of them. I read its called the yak track. If you didnt want that lineup the other routes would be your teams alone. Of course a much harder climb would mean you would have to be a premier climber and not a tourist style one. Not that Ive met any climbers but these days Id be more impressed if a climber had summited K2. There are no tourists on K2 as it is a much harder climb and only a smidge below Everest in elevation.
“Free Solo” is a real climbing event and documentary......
Shove them off the side of the path.......
The oxygen levels at 30k feet aren't there and the motors will stall out.
Mount Everest On May 14th, 2005, an Ecureuil/AStar AS 350 B3 helicopter operated by Eurocopter was reported to have landed on Mount Everest (29,035 feet). The landing is in dispute. The listed service ceiling of the rotorcraft is between 17 and 18 thousand feet, which is considerably short of the summit altitude. An unmanned high altitude helicopter is nearing completion. TGR Helicorp in New Zeland has designed the "Alpine Wasp" specifically for rescue evolutions on Everest. The machine's diesel engine will give it an operating ceiling in excess of 30,000 feet. Source1
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LOL! They have that already....
But they didnt conquer Everest, their guides did. Thy are just their passengers.
Ah, a classic.
That’s hilarious. I’m gonna show that to the wife, and she doesn’t even like guns!
LOL
ROFL!
Hahahahahahaha! Hilarious! Nice job!
Hahaha...and still texting from her iPhone when she lands! Or Facetiming!
It won’t be me. I’m like the caterpillar who looked
up and saw a butterfly. He said, “You’ll never get
me up in one of those things!”
Excellent!
more deadly and probably more uncomfortable is high altitude cerebral edema. The brain swells and mashes itself against the inside of the skull. You did screaming with the worst headache of your life
A real feat was the Shackleton Expedition, after their ship was crushed, spent six months on steadily disintegrating ice floes, eating seals and penguins, until they had to climb into their boats and sail three days through open ocean to land on a small island. Realizing they would not survive there, they set up one of their boats and made an extraordinary 720 nautical mile voyage over open ocean only a month or so after the official end of the antarctic winter with only three chances at taking a celestial fix from a heaving small boat, and hit Georgia Island square on.
Impossible, but they did it.
I saw the actual boat they did it in at an exhibit at the Peabody-Essex Museum...just cannot believe it. That was a small boat.
Then they had to travel overland to the other side of the island, and traveled 32 miles over rugged, crevassed glacier with a carpenter’s adze, wool clothes, 50 feet of rope and wood screws put through the soles of their shoes.
An utterly remarkable endeavor.
“He even had to step around the body of a woman...”
“Hmf - $80,000 I pay and they don’t even clean up the bodies!”
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