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Post by abbey1227 on May 27, 2024 2:25:47 GMT
Apparently so many people have gone up there that there's frozen shit all over the place. Recently they've made it mandatory for climbers to pack out their own shit.
EVERYWHERE people go, they tend to leave behind shit and garbage of all sorts.
I keep seeing articles from outraged 'greenies' about all the trash and plastic pollution out in parks and on trails.
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Post by kiwi on May 27, 2024 2:28:30 GMT
I'm glad this man is getting deserved attention. Over the years, there've been a lot of Sherpas who received no credit for summiting while they were schlepping equipment for those seeking fame. abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/sherpa-guide-kami-rita-climbed-everest-30-times-110530359I would never consider trying to climb. I got stuck on a ski lift in Vermont near the top of a mountain on a late afternoon for the longest 20 minutes of my life. It made fear the cold like nothing else.
didja see that movie with a similar theme?
No. Do you remember the title? I’ll watch it covered in a heavy blanket. |
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Post by abbey1227 on May 27, 2024 2:46:55 GMT
didja see that movie with a similar theme?
No. Do you remember the title? I’ll watch it covered in a heavy blanket.
Frozen 2010 R
Three skiers stranded on a chairlift are forced to make life-or-death choices, which prove more perilous than staying put and freezing to death.
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Post by kiwi on May 27, 2024 2:54:04 GMT
No. Do you remember the title? I’ll watch it covered in a heavy blanket.
Frozen 2010 R
Three skiers stranded on a chairlift are forced to make life-or-death choices, which prove more perilous than staying put and freezing to death.
Thanks. I have to see it and find out if the friend I was with saw it. It was awful being so near the top of the mountain. We knew that people further down might be able to be rescued but we were way too high up. It was January so the days were short. The light was getting dimmer and we were terrified of getting frostbitten, of being up there forever. Then we felt a bump and HALLELUJAH, the chair lift starting moving. |
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Post by abbey1227 on May 27, 2024 8:26:42 GMT
Apparently so many people have gone up there that there's frozen shit all over the place. Recently they've made it mandatory for climbers to pack out their own shit.
Clean Up!! Aisle 7!
World
·Fox News
Mount Everest climbing duo vanishes from notorious area of world's tallest peak
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Post by jeffersoncody on May 27, 2024 8:59:08 GMT
I have no desire to climb Everest abbey.
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Post by abbey1227 on May 27, 2024 9:05:21 GMT
I have no desire to climb Everest abbey.
How about some cave diving?
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Post by vegas on May 27, 2024 10:09:38 GMT
I'm glad this man is getting deserved attention. Over the years, there've been a lot of Sherpas who received no credit for summiting while they were schlepping equipment for those seeking fame. I remember watching Everest at an IMax... and showing all the harrowing events during their hike... and how daring these guys are... and wondering to myself... "Yeah.. but what about the cameramen??" |
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Post by abbey1227 on May 27, 2024 13:33:25 GMT
I'm glad this man is getting deserved attention. Over the years, there've been a lot of Sherpas who received no credit for summiting while they were schlepping equipment for those seeking fame. I remember watching Everest at an IMax... and showing all the harrowing events during their hike... and how daring these guys are... and wondering to myself... "Yeah.. but what about the cameramen??"
That's the crazy thing about those 'alone' in the wilderness shows..........they're taking extra chances by having long range shots of themselves........and then having to retrieve the camera equipment.
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Post by pathfinder on May 28, 2024 1:31:08 GMT
Everest has turned into the world's highest graveyard.
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Post by cts1 on May 28, 2024 23:10:18 GMT
People can’t believe why anyone would want to climb Everest after witnessing current scenes at summit
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Looks like they should just install an escalator already. ![[shrug]](http://storage.proboards.com/6870873/images/GNdzQKpfkkHBBwUPdCiE.gif) Evidently there is only one practical path to the summit, and the climbing season only lasts for like six weeks out of the year or something, so it's crowded as fuck. Not true. There is one practical path for most guided parties. The Tibet/ North Col route is far less crowded, but it does involve schmoozing with PRC officials to get the permits. |
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Post by jill on May 29, 2024 0:14:18 GMT
People can’t believe why anyone would want to climb Everest after witnessing current scenes at summit
Rush hour on the top of Mount Everest.
by Brenna Cooper
Scaling Mount Everest is something most of us could only dream of - or to some, it would feel a nightmare.
Standing at 8,850 meters (29,035 feet), climbing the mountain is not for the faint-hearted.
Climbers who venture higher than 26,000 feet enter the mountain's 'death zone' where oxygen levels are so low the body begins to shut down.
At this altitude, the body's cells will begin to die and judgement becomes impaired.
The death zone has claimed the lives of 340 climbers attempting to reach the summit, with their bodies left preserved on the frozen mountainside.
With the climb being so treacherous (and the cost of climbing being in the tens of thousands) you'd imagine few would risk the challenge.
Well, it turns out that the summit of Everest is actually pretty crowded, with X user Iain Cameron sharing a video (originally recorded by Rajan Dwivedi) revealing a queue of climbers scrambling through the snow. "Everest a couple of days ago. Why would anyone want to be a part of this? The worst kind of adventure capitalism," he captioned the tweet. In the video, hundreds of climbers can be seen in their red and orange thermals, clinging to the ropes as they wait to ascend higher up the mountain.
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Looks like they should just install an escalator already. That picture is crazy. |
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Post by abbey1227 on May 29, 2024 2:41:42 GMT
People can’t believe why anyone would want to climb Everest after witnessing current scenes at summit
That picture is crazy.
There were some even worse..........but they didn't wanna cooperate and copy/paste. ![[raspberry]](http://storage.proboards.com/6870873/images/URfbnorGJoHZMsqWxsFb.gif) It's almost like seeing the giant plastic island floating in the Ocean, right? |
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Post by abbey1227 on Sept 9, 2024 10:11:34 GMT
Everest has turned into the world's highest graveyard.
This just popped up and I thought it was showing the much more clever side of a few people anyway.
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Post by merh on Sept 9, 2024 10:41:00 GMT
Spoiled westerners, probably all millennials, probably childless, probably thinking they're honorary Sherpas now. No. Sad little one-uppers. Want the brag to friends back home they climbed Mt Everest because at least at one time it was something. And it still is to a point. Most of us don't care. But I guess if one is into climbing mountains it's like running some big marathon |
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