Posted on 01/26/2005 8:23:02 AM PST by presidio9
I can't really say that that is Lhotse...but look at the picture I posted at 48.
Now imagine walking all the way to the right until you are standing at the "foot" of Lhotse looking up.
No way would you see anything but Lhotse.
Anyway...that's my guess of what the pix at the top of the thread is.
lol,, ROTFLMAO
Apparently there are many other glaciers that are observed to be expanding...Only a small amount have been even measured.
It's further away than the mountains in front and the picture is from a MUCH lower elevation. (That's the view looking North from Nepal)
Now look at the pix I posted viewing Everest from the North...you can't even see the "bigger" mountains. They are right behind it with the "Western Cwm" (valley) between.
That's ok; the snow is UP 4' here in ARIZONA! Something about Newton's Law of Conservation of Matter might be at work here...
Now only 29,031 feet tall...
,,, I'll trim our bank notes accordingly.
;-) Check this thaw.
But, you know, I don't really think it's the 'global warming' thing this time though...you know, like does rock really 'melt'???!!!
*I* think it HAS to be due to just too many people going up there.
You know, I had a really bad feeling about this, as soon as I heard the Tibetans had started taking those tour buses up.
We're gonna HAVE to take that mountain away from those Tibetans for their own GOOD!!! ...and so as to 'preserve' our heritage!!! I mean like, how many of our forefathers went there to climb??? It would be like a TOTAL SHAME if we don't DO something!!! I mean, what we need here are some more ROAD CLOSURES!!! ...and QUICK!!!
...and, you know, the UN should, like, charge anyone wanting to go there a fee like, you know, something fair, like $100,000 or so, and then give them a seminar on alpine preservation before they go up. (Oh sure! There would DEFINITELY be a free lunch with that, so the visitors would KNOW they were getting 'value'.) ...and there could be a 'thing' like, people who couldn't 'afford' to pay that much could get in like, you know, free. And, like, if there was any money left after paying for the classroom, the instructor, the UN's 'administrative fee', and... you know...the free lunch... the rest could go to some great charity like, you know, 'Greenpeace' or 'Sierra Klub' or someone, who really KARES about the Earth!!!
Don't you think that would be like, a GREAT idea???
Not necessarily. Think "Ice Age"
Hmmmmm....so why is there more forest now than when the Pilgrims landed...hmmmm?
BTTT!!!!!!
Your pic, eddie, is most definitely Lhotse ridge with Everest behind. In fact the photo was taken with telephoto from somewhere in the vicinity of Pangboche, the last spot where you's get that vantage point (as you approach Dingboche/Pheriche, Everest "drops" behind Lhotse).
But I agree with meema, no matter what I do with post #1 photo, it doesn't look like any Everest pic I've ever seen. Nothing seems to be in the right place.
Global warming melts rock, donchaknow.
I demand a lot more proof than this before I accept that hypothesis.
So from which spot would pic #1 have been taken?
It couldn't be anywhere from the south or east
(e.g. Kala Pattar), I know those views like the back of my hand.
It couldn't be anywhere from the south or east west....
"seven feet higher"
I've used the professional grade backpack GPS models that download to a data logger. The gear is in a back pack and the GPS antenna sticks up above the pack (and my head) about one foot. I'm six feet tall. I wonder......
Thanks for the new pic...Now I'm sooooo confuuuseddd.!
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