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| Sherpa 'strips' atop Everest | ||
| 2006-05-28 | ||
| The head of the Nepal Mountaineering Association has urged the Nepali government to take action against a sherpa who reportedly stripped off on top of Mount Everest. The Himalayan Times reported on Friday that the Nepali climbing guide, whose name it gave as Lakpa Tharke, stood naked for three minutes in freezing conditions on the 8 850m summit of the world's highest peak. If confirmed, he would be the first person known to have stripped atop Everest, considered by Nepali Buddhists as a god. On Saturday, Ang Tshering Sherpa, head of Nepal's top mountaineering body, said he could not confirm that the incident had happened. "But if he did it, it is very shocking because Sagarmatha is the goddess mother," he said. "The government must enforce strict ethics for climbing." Authorities have yet to comment.
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| Posted by:Fred |
| #10 "Moon Over K2" |
| Posted by: mojo 2006-05-28 22:34 |
| #9 So - how are they going to punish this guy - throw him into a "chilly" prison cell? In my book, if you make it to the summit of Everest, you are entitled to do anything you want - you write your own laws/rules at that pinnacle, because you are a population of one (or maybe a very small handful of seriously suffering people) |
| Posted by: Lone Ranger 2006-05-28 21:36 |
| #8 Down, wxjames. ;-) |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2006-05-28 20:47 |
| #7 Which direction would a dump fall from the top of Mt. Everest ? Okay, so I'm bored. |
| Posted by: wxjames 2006-05-28 15:35 |
| #6 This is like a Polar Bear event - at the summit of Mount Everest. |
| Posted by: Zhang Fei 2006-05-28 12:12 |
| #5 Heh, Seafarious. Who will be the first to take a dump atop Mt Everest? It would (will) be so, uh, symbolic. |
| Posted by: Slolulet Sletch7958 2006-05-28 12:08 |
| #4 Next I suppose someone's going to want to make whoopie there.... MoneyQuote: But the climb’s organizers seemed happy enough with Lakpa Thaeke’s strip. “We are planning to file his extraordinary feat for the Guinness Book of World Records,” the paper quoted an official of the hiking group that employs Tharke as saying. His team told expedition organisers of his world-topping strip on Wednesday by satellite telephone and said they had taken photographs of the shivering Sherpa. "Lakpa Tharke Sherpa stood naked for about three minutes after reaching the summit on Wednesday," Ishwori Poudel, managing director of the Himalayan Guides Nepal Trek and Expeditions, told AFP. |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2006-05-28 11:43 |
| #3 Sherpa 'strips' atop Everest Lakpa Tharke still has two lumps in his throat and a very high pitched voice. |
| Posted by: RD 2006-05-28 00:59 |
| #2 To feel the wind rushing through the holes in their heads. |
| Posted by: Seafarious 2006-05-28 00:40 |
| #1 did he dump the oxygen tanks as well? A couple of my adventuresome buddies have verbally masturbated about climbing everest and the only thing I can say is - what the f*ck for? |
| Posted by: Broadhead6 2006-05-28 00:39 |