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Everest victim was out to prove 'vegans can do anything'
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Posted on 05/23/2016 2:30:35 PM PDT by Red in Blue PA

A fourth person has died on Mount Everest, and further details about the deaths are slowly emerging. Subhash Paul of India was being assisted overnight Sunday by Sherpa guides during a descent when he died of altitude sickness, the AP reports.

Dutch climber Eric Arnold passed away Friday of the same malady, while Australia's Maria Strydom succumbed to it on Saturday. A 25-year-old Sherpa was the first to die this climbing season: Phurba Sherpa fell to his death Thursday while trying to prep a route for climbers just 150 feet from the top, CNN reports.

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KEYWORDS: australia; darwinawards; ericarnold; everest; india; mariastrydom; misadventure; mounteverest; netherlands; phurbasherpa; subhashpaul; vegans
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To: Hot Tabasco; Red in Blue PA; Patriotic1
From what I've read, it appears as though once you get above a certain level, there is NO excess energy to do anything else.

This is why the bodies and the trash remain up there.

There were threads last year on Everest, and I did some external reading.

61 posted on 05/23/2016 5:41:09 PM PDT by kiryandil (To the GOPee: "Giving the Democrats the Supreme Court means you ARE the Democrats.")
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To: Red in Blue PA

There is one word to describe people who spend north of $60,000 to risk their lives: STUPID!


62 posted on 05/23/2016 5:50:15 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Liberals are the Taliban of America, trying to tear down any symbol that they don't like.)
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To: Blood of Tyrants

You could say the same about someone who buys a Lamborghini......to each their own.


63 posted on 05/23/2016 5:55:14 PM PDT by Red in Blue PA (war is peace, freedom is slavery, ignorance is strength, obama loves America)
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To: Thank You Rush; All

“Touching the Void” is a must see movie; about a climb in Peru, not Everest, but it really brings the climbing experience to your tv room.


64 posted on 05/23/2016 5:56:49 PM PDT by Red in Blue PA (war is peace, freedom is slavery, ignorance is strength, obama loves America)
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To: Patriotic1

A former company would try to have meetings places like Breckenridge Co and half the attendees from the east would leave and drive back to Denver the first night.We stop having national meetings at 9000 after a few fiascos .


65 posted on 05/23/2016 6:18:16 PM PDT by ncalburt
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To: Red in Blue PA

That would not have proved that vegans can do anything. It would have proved that he could climb a mountain. No loss to the world.


66 posted on 05/23/2016 6:24:57 PM PDT by I want the USA back (The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those who speak it. Orwell.)
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To: Red in Blue PA

Darwin Awards all around!!!


67 posted on 05/23/2016 6:33:40 PM PDT by Delta 21 (Patiently waiting for the jack booted kick at my door.)
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To: Red in Blue PA

If you don’t eat Baconators, you DON”T BELONG in America. Get the hell out! Go Trump.


68 posted on 05/23/2016 6:57:48 PM PDT by Ethan Clive Osgoode
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To: Red in Blue PA

You don’t have to drive a Lamborghini 180 mph to get your thrills. A sedate 80-85 on the freeway is fast enough.


69 posted on 05/23/2016 7:32:05 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Socialism is always just one more murder away from utopia.)
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To: golux

That’s great; I’m going to pass that one along!

Thanks


70 posted on 05/23/2016 7:42:14 PM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: knarf

This may sound strange, but I have always felt my best at around 7500 feet. Lower altitude bothers me, i.e., Palm Springs, CA. Somewhere around there it is below sea level.

Could be the smog...


71 posted on 05/23/2016 7:45:29 PM PDT by Slip18
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To: Hot Tabasco

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Like a week of training can get you ready for climbing six miles into the sky.
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72 posted on 05/23/2016 7:46:40 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: Red in Blue PA

Reminds me of the base jumpers willing to be arrested to prove that jumping in some park was safe (it was illegal). One woman (Jan Davis?), knowing she would be arrested and have the chutes impounded, borrowed a cheaper one and jumped with it. The little chute you pull out (to drag out the main one) was located in a different spot on the replacement, and she fell to her death (and was recorded on film doing so, in front of her husband).

Instant Darwin Award...


73 posted on 05/23/2016 7:49:29 PM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: knarf

Me, too! Every single day is Funday! I do have to clean kitty litters, but then you sing to your kitties about their sh!tty attitude.


74 posted on 05/23/2016 7:51:45 PM PDT by Slip18
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To: Tijeras_Slim

There you go! I thought I might be abnormal feeling better in higher altitudes! Thank you ever so much!


75 posted on 05/23/2016 7:58:49 PM PDT by Slip18
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To: Mr. Mojo

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The capsaicin (hot peppers) in the local diet is important for climbing.

It improves the blood flow and stabilizes your heart rate.

The meat is also important for supplying the iron to create a good supply of red blood cells.


76 posted on 05/23/2016 8:00:28 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: Red in Blue PA

He proved they could die..


77 posted on 05/23/2016 10:48:02 PM PDT by sheik yerbouty ( Make America and the world a jihad free zone!)
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To: sheik yerbouty

“She”


78 posted on 05/23/2016 10:48:54 PM PDT by sheik yerbouty ( Make America and the world a jihad free zone!)
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To: ground_fog

World’s highest open air cemetery.


79 posted on 05/23/2016 10:50:50 PM PDT by Pelham (Trump/Tsoukalos 2016 - vote the great hair ticket)
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To: Red in Blue PA

More than 200 mountain climbers reside in the Ever Rest Cemetery, high above everything.


80 posted on 05/23/2016 10:55:31 PM PDT by r_barton (GO TRUMP!!!)
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