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Fury at plan to put ladders on K2 - the killer mountain that claims the lives of 25% of [tr]
UK Daily Mail ^ | July 25, 2019 | Bridie Pearson-Jones

Posted on 07/25/2019 6:09:36 AM PDT by C19fan

Climbers have expressed fury at plans to install ladders on the summit of K2, the second highest mountain in the world which takes the lives of one in four climbers.

Mountaineers fear the peak is set to become a tourist destination if steps are installed making the dangerous peak too commercialised.

Imagine Nepal, a trekking and expedition agency, said that they want to return to the mountain next year with ladders, drills and bolts after being forced to abandon their ascent last week amid dangerous conditions.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Outdoors; Travel
KEYWORDS: k2; ladders; laddersonk2; mountains
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To: C19fan

No ladders, no public monies for rescue efforts, and jail time for climbers who don’t bring their trash out.


21 posted on 07/25/2019 7:28:33 AM PDT by Blue Collar Christian (I'm a nationalist.I'm white.Does that mean I'm racist?)
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To: C210N

I took a hike up the back side of Squaw Valley last year and back down. A real nose-scraper. Lots of rocks, lots of vertical. It was a pretty demanding hike.

Now, I’m a big guy. I didn’t have a hamburger in my hand, but I meet your description in other ways.

All the way down, almost every single person we passed on the way up took a look at me and said, out loud, “Well if that guy can do it, I can’t quit now!”

I was providing a real service to humanity! Motivation!


22 posted on 07/25/2019 8:02:23 AM PDT by Haiku Guy (If you have a right / To the service I provide / I must be your slave)
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To: C210N

Just think, if you’d have climed Mt. Washington you’d have found some cars near the summit, and a choo-choo at the top.


23 posted on 07/25/2019 8:02:38 AM PDT by Roccus (When you talk to a politician...ANY politician...always say, "Remember Ceausescu")
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To: C210N
Cannon’s ski lift is operational in the Summer.<\i> Wildcat mt also has a lift running in the summer. And a zip line!
24 posted on 07/25/2019 8:02:50 AM PDT by glorgau
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To: C19fan
K2 makes Everest look like a day at the park.

Annapurna is even more dangerous than K2. Apparently, the whole mountain is a series of avalanches waiting to happen. None of the 8K meter peaks are something that a novice should attempt and attaching permanent ladders to a peak would only encourage those who have no business being up there.

25 posted on 07/25/2019 8:15:32 AM PDT by CommerceComet (Hillary: A unique blend of arrogance, incompetence, and corruption.)
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To: C19fan

We gonna need more Darwin Award trophies.


26 posted on 07/25/2019 8:19:49 AM PDT by bgill
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To: C210N

Here’s the thing that I’ve always been saying as a mountain biker- you have to earn your downhill!

If you get the free ride to the top do you not get the benefit from earning your way to the top and therefore our short changing not only your body but your soul of the true enjoyment of the downhill

for example in Mammoth Mountain in the Eastern Sierra’s I start at the bottom spend all day getting to the top and then spend about two hours riding down the mountain many people take the chairlift up and ride down several times but I’m going to laugh at them because they have to pay $80 and wait in line and to me are just giant pussies


27 posted on 07/25/2019 9:35:09 AM PDT by Truthoverpower (The guvmint you get is the Trump winning express !)
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To: Roccus

climed = climbed........DUH!


28 posted on 07/25/2019 10:07:51 AM PDT by Roccus (When you talk to a politician...ANY politician...always say, "Remember Ceausescu")
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To: C19fan
She took a selfie on Mount Everest



She’ll be...
tumbling down Mount Everest when she comes,
She’ll be broken, frozen shattered when she comes.
She’ll be flying through the cold air
screaming, “Help me, don’t just stand there!”
And still texting from her iPhone with her thumbs.

29 posted on 07/25/2019 11:12:18 AM PDT by sparklite2 (Don't mind me. I'm just a contrarian.)
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