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re: 7.8 Earthquake in Nepal; 1800+ dead; Avalanche Kills 17+ on Everest
Posted on 4/25/15 at 11:59 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
Posted on 4/25/15 at 11:59 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
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So are all the climber deaths and everest village destruction due to the avalanche itself? Were there multiple avalanches?
Thousands of avalanches and rock slides then shaking of centuries old buildings with no building codes. Base camp damage was caused by a ice the size of the U.S. Nimitz breaking lose over 2500 feet above at 500 plus mph. Air wave blew many tents with people in them off the mountain as well from Avalanche. Rock slides killed several others in base camp.
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Posted on 4/26/15 at 1:04 am to Jim Rockford
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Jacob said that the “Icefall Doctors” have left the mountain, so the rescue is up to the remaining climbers.
Cold hearted doctors
Posted on 4/26/15 at 1:09 am to HeadChange
They aren't doctors, that's the term for Sherpas who find the route and set up the fixed ropes through the Icefall. I'm sure they wanted to get home and see about the safety of their families.
Posted on 4/26/15 at 1:12 am to Jim Rockford
I would guess that is correct, no real doctor would ever leave a scene like that unless he felt he HAD to check on his family because they might be dead.
Posted on 4/26/15 at 1:35 am to Jim Rockford
Just got a text from my friend "T"
Family is fine all things considered .. Shaken but live and well .. Thanks
Too scared to go back in the house so they spent the night in the cars out in an open space .. Not sure when they wll feel safe to move bk in
His family is one of the "lucky" I guess you might say. They've owned a prominent guide and safari company for decades. Their house is in the city center and big. 3 stories. It was damaged quite a bit and they're scared of aftershock. Helping others all the can.
I've never been through a Katrina, Joplin or Tuscaloosa. I can't wrap my head around his thoughts or theirs tonight. Or what you guys here saw. It's keeping me up.
Family is fine all things considered .. Shaken but live and well .. Thanks
Too scared to go back in the house so they spent the night in the cars out in an open space .. Not sure when they wll feel safe to move bk in
His family is one of the "lucky" I guess you might say. They've owned a prominent guide and safari company for decades. Their house is in the city center and big. 3 stories. It was damaged quite a bit and they're scared of aftershock. Helping others all the can.
I've never been through a Katrina, Joplin or Tuscaloosa. I can't wrap my head around his thoughts or theirs tonight. Or what you guys here saw. It's keeping me up.
Posted on 4/26/15 at 1:43 am to lsu480
I need help understanding some stuff. Why/how could an avalanche destroy villages and landmarks and such? This isn't a "why would these idiots live so close" question. Are avalanches there extremely rare? I'm wondering how a village would last more than 2 months in an avalanche heavy area. Obviously villages are stable places.
This place is dangerous as all hell. Am I reading this right that some of the Sherpas said frick this, and straight dominated the insanely dangerous path that the avalanche left them on their way down?
This place is dangerous as all hell. Am I reading this right that some of the Sherpas said frick this, and straight dominated the insanely dangerous path that the avalanche left them on their way down?
This post was edited on 4/26/15 at 1:45 am
Posted on 4/26/15 at 1:51 am to ReauxlTide222
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I need help understanding some stuff. Why/how could an avalanche destroy villages and landmarks and such?
Did you miss the 7.8 magnitude earthquake part? That alone is gonna frick some shite up
Posted on 4/26/15 at 1:53 am to ReauxlTide222
The avalanche they're talking about was just at the base camp. The earthquake damage was spread across basically across the whole country, including a city of about a million people. There were probably other avalanches we haven't heard about yet, but remember, this was a huge earthquake that shook loose things that ordinarily wouldn't be shaken loose. This was the strongest quake since 1900, which means no one alive in Nepal has any memory of anything like this. The quake itself was capable of causing widespread destruction without avalanches.
TL;DR: The avalanche was just a tiny part of a much bigger event.
TL;DR: The avalanche was just a tiny part of a much bigger event.
Posted on 4/26/15 at 2:08 am to Pettifogger
Pretty nuts! My cousin was on a climb from the Everest base camp. Not climbing Everest but was doing another climb during the day and wasn't at base camp when the avalanche hit. Very lucky he's fine!
Posted on 4/26/15 at 2:13 am to Jim Rockford
I see I see. It's hard for me to imagine something as hard as climbing Everest, being interrupted by a fricking earthquake. Like, that's just not right. For whatever reason I kinda separated the 2 events.
This is horrible.
This is horrible.
Posted on 4/26/15 at 2:42 am to ReauxlTide222
Posted on 4/26/15 at 5:49 am to asurob1
Base camp is in a supposedly safe Avalanche free zone. The avalanche that hit it must have been on a scale so large that it dwarfed any previous one in known history.
Posted on 4/26/15 at 7:53 am to VABuckeye
From a Nepali on reddit:
quote:
The earthquake totaled most of the ancient homes, structures and buildings (some of which were UNESCO world heritage sites) in KTM. The situation is grim.
Posted on 4/26/15 at 8:25 am to MrLSU
Good Lord, this is horrific.
Posted on 4/26/15 at 8:39 am to When in Rome
Few things grab my interest. This does.
With what little knowledge I have of Everast and Nepal, this is jaw dropping.
With what little knowledge I have of Everast and Nepal, this is jaw dropping.
Posted on 4/26/15 at 8:45 am to Eugene Dogwood
Yeah. It's a disaster in one of the most remote regions of the earth affecting a large population. It's just terrible.
This post was edited on 4/26/15 at 8:46 am
Posted on 4/26/15 at 8:52 am to VABuckeye
Amazing how many people in this thread personally know someone that was on the mountain or at base camp at the time of the quake, let alone know someone that has even attempted to climb Everest. The OT comes through again !
Posted on 4/26/15 at 8:57 am to TigahRag
I went to school in Nepal.
I also had class with 3 of the people that were in the base camp.
I also had class with 3 of the people that were in the base camp.
Posted on 4/26/15 at 8:58 am to BRgetthenet
What's your 40 time ? 
Posted on 4/26/15 at 8:59 am to TigahRag
With a laser or a stopwatch?
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