Posted on 07/22/2024 11:10:59 PM PDT by CFW
lol......
Sloped roofs?
Those are especially dangerous. I’d rather taken on an angry great white shark than a sloped roof.
“Movie: The man who skied everest
Documentary Film: A 1975 Canadian documentary film directed by F.R. Crawley and Bruce Nyznik, produced by Crawley Films and Ishihara International Productions.
Subject: Yuichiro Miura, a Japanese alpinist who skied down Mount Everest in 1970.
Feat: Miura skied 2,000 meters (6,600 feet) in two minutes and 20 seconds, descending an icy glacier at a 40-45 degree angle from the 26,000-foot level near the summit.
Production: The film chronicles Miura’s incredible feat and the challenges of climbing Everest itself, featuring narration from Douglas Rain and cinematography by Mitsuji Kanau.”
You had me pondering for a minute.
-- Robert Browning
Everest has been collecting bodies since 1922. More than half of the 300+ people who've died trying to climb it are still there, either left in a spot that's too precarious to recover their remains without risking more lives, or buried at the bottom of an avalanche.
Some of the bodies have even been relocated either to keep routes clear or to move them someplace less conspicuous. I guess you wouldn't want the sight of dead climbers spoiling the experience for your paying customers.
Some Chinese climbers moved the infamous corpse known as "Green Boots" for esthetic reasons. Then again, the Chinese clearly have no respect for the traditions of the mountain because it was they who installed an aluminum step ladder on Everest's Second Step. It wasn't long before everybody who climbed that route was using the Chinese ladder as a 'normal' part of the route. It even was replaced in 2007 because after 32 years, the original ladder was getting a mite rickety.
Still trying to figure how you still can call it "climbing a mountain" when there's an aluminum step ladder involved.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Boots
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Steps
But when you're part of a conga line, then it's dangerous yet mundane. Kinda like riding a NYC subway.
Given enough time and money, man will always find a way to hurt, maim, or kill himself. Strange, but true.
From what I understand Everest is not that technically difficult of a climb, it is more a logistical challenge and dealing with the altitude and the weather. Unless you do it in the style of Messner.
Who are we? The people who have to endure the media making a spectacle of it. Do.Not.Care
Unfortunately their idiocy was perpetuated long before their attempt to summit. These affluent idiots don’t breed like 3d worlders, but it’s still enough to produce millions & millions more.
So, should we start calling Indian doctors “Patels”?
CC
“Can we really ban people from dangerous activities because they might die? What is the red line on that? Motorcycles? Diving? Parachuting?”
It’s easier to get a spot to climb Everest than it is to play a round of golf at St. Andrews.
In a Maidenform bra.
The government first launched the clean-up campaign in 2019, which included removing some bodies of dead climbers. But this year was the first time that authorities set a goal to retrieve five bodies from the so-called “death zone”, above an altitude of 8,000m (26,247 feet).
In the end the team - who subsisted on water, chocolate and sattu, a mixture of chickpea, barley and wheat flour - retrieved four bodies.
One skeleton and 11 tonnes of rubbish were removed at lower altitudes after a 54-day operation that ended on 5 June.
If 8 died and 5 were retrieved, it sounds like they are losing ground.
Some time back, a multiple amputee “climbed” the mountain. Or rather, he had a Sherpa carry him up on his back. On their way down, they passed another climber in physical stress. The Sherpa couldn’t help the other climber because he had to carry his “photo op” client down the mountain. I hope the other climber is one of the bodies they plan to bring down.
Worldwide there are areas we limit or block off from access due to the danger to people and to the site itself. For instance here in the U.S. we have rules against bathing in the Yellowstone hot springs lest people boil themselves into nothingness. I guess we could just tell people to go ahead and enjoy their sense of adventure. It would thin the genes at the shallow end of the pool.
It’s helping thin the herd. Mt Everest is a cesspool of garbage now from all the idiots. I’m surprised they don’t have a Dollar General at base camp.
Instead of banning climbers, require them to wear clothing with treads on them, like stair treads, so that other climbers can walk on the stacked bodies like a staircase.
I think these are people who have a very high threshold of stimulation and need to do extreme things in order to experience the feeling of being alive.
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