Don't think it was posted on the Burg, possible elsewhere.... some time ago.
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| Climbing Mount Everest - The Queue At Khumbu Icefall |
| 2023-08-15 |
| The various comments truly make the post. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #7 life gets pretty cheap above 20,000 feet, just sayin' |
| Posted by: 746 2023-08-15 14:17 |
| #6 Norwegian climber says it would have been impossible to carry injured Pakistani porter down snowy K2 |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2023-08-15 10:11 |
| #4 I think the incident with the dying Sherpa porter was on K2, not Everest. |
| Posted by: MW 2023-08-15 07:16 |
| #3 /\ Don't think it was posted on the Burg, possible elsewhere.... some time ago. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2023-08-15 06:50 |
| #2 ...Not sure if it was covered here at the 'Burg, but a week or so back there was a horrifying story about one of the Sherpa guides who fell ill and collapsed along the trail...and not a single one of those hundreds of climbers did anything to help him, so he died there. There's pics/video of climbers walking past him. The Nepalese are of very mixed feelings about Everest tourism - on the one hand, it is an important source of revenue for a nation that unfortunately has damned little else to offer. On the other hand, most of the Everest tourists treat the place like a private campground that somebody else has to clean up, and they often treat the Sherpas with the same attitude. Were I king for a day, Everest would be off limits for most of the time, and then access would be very tightly controlled. Mike |
| Posted by: MikeKozlowski 2023-08-15 06:38 |
| #1 more importantly ,the beer get more expensive the higher up you go too |
| Posted by: 746 2023-08-15 02:56 |