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Everest Summit "Like A Zoo"
Posted on 7/15/19 at 7:11 pm
Posted on 7/15/19 at 7:11 pm
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Climbers who made it out alive called the peak a “zoo,” with people jostling for photos and even having to climb over a dead body to make it all the way up.
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climbers and sherpas reported that some didn’t anticipate the long wait time at the top, and didn’t bring enough oxygen to cover them in those hours of delay.
Imagine that. You're in the "death zone" staring at line like you're at Disney. frick all that noise. I can't stand being stuck in traffic, no way I'm not going to go full freak out mode watching my oxygen slowly diminish.
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This post was edited on 7/15/19 at 7:19 pm
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Posted on 7/15/19 at 7:13 pm to Cajun367
Back in the day, it was hard to climb Mt Everest
Posted on 7/15/19 at 7:14 pm to Cajun367
Their Insta gon be lit, fam
Posted on 7/15/19 at 7:14 pm to Cajun367
I’ve seen better summits in the quad
Posted on 7/15/19 at 7:15 pm to upgrayedd
That’s gotta be the #1 Instagram “flex”
Posted on 7/15/19 at 7:15 pm to Cajun367
No link? I would like to read the article.
Posted on 7/15/19 at 7:16 pm to Cajun367
Mount Everest isn't even in the top 5 "hardest to climb."
Pussy arse mountain
Pussy arse mountain
Posted on 7/15/19 at 7:17 pm to Cajun367
quote:basically all it is. The escorts are bringing in as much money as they can by bringing up as many at one time as they can.
staring at line like you're at Disney
Posted on 7/15/19 at 7:17 pm to Cajun367
No lines on K2.
Posted on 7/15/19 at 7:18 pm to LegendInMyMind
added to OP
Posted on 7/15/19 at 7:18 pm to Jim Rockford
K2 is for real baws with death wishes
Posted on 7/15/19 at 7:19 pm to Cajun367
Posted on 7/15/19 at 7:21 pm to Cajun367
It’s now K2 season.
Posted on 7/15/19 at 7:21 pm to Cajun367
Not only the need for O2 but think of how much money you spent to get to the peak and its within sight....
Posted on 7/15/19 at 7:23 pm to LegendInMyMind
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No link? I would like to read the article.
By By Kai Schultz, Jeffrey Gettleman, Mujib Mashal and Bhadra Sharma
May 29, 2019
NEW DELHI — Ed Dohring, a doctor from Arizona, had dreamed his whole life of reaching the top of Mount Everest. But when he summited a few days ago, he was shocked by what he saw.
Climbers were pushing and shoving to take selfies. The flat part of the summit, which he estimated at about the size of two Ping-Pong tables, was packed with 15 or 20 people. To get up there, he had to wait hours in a line, chest to chest, one puffy jacket after the next, on an icy, rocky ridge with a several-thousand foot drop.
He even had to step around the body of a woman who had just died.
“It was scary,” he said by telephone from Kathmandu, Nepal, where he was resting in a hotel room. “It was like a zoo.”
This has been one of the deadliest climbing seasons on Everest, with at least 11 deaths. And at least some seem to have been avoidable.
The problem hasn’t been avalanches, blizzards or high winds. Veteran climbers and industry leaders blame having too many people on the mountain, in general, and too many inexperienced climbers, in particular.
Fly-by-night adventure companies are taking up untrained climbers who pose a risk to everyone on the mountain. And the Nepalese government, hungry for every climbing dollar it can get, has issued more permits than Everest can safely handle, some experienced mountaineers say. ...
NY Times
This post was edited on 7/15/19 at 7:24 pm
Posted on 7/15/19 at 7:23 pm to DustyDinkleman
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Mount Everest isn't even in the top 5 "hardest to climb."
Pussy arse mountain
That is if you only count the easiest route on each mountain. If you consider something like the Integral NE Ridge on Everest with the Pinnacles section it changes the equation.
Posted on 7/15/19 at 7:25 pm to LegendInMyMind
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No link? I would like to read the article.
You can search back at the 2 or 3 other times this photo and story has been covered here
Posted on 7/15/19 at 7:26 pm to Cajun367
quote:been a thread a week since then it seems
Updated June 04, 2019
Posted on 7/15/19 at 7:27 pm to East Coast Band
K2 2019
There are concerns about too many people on the mountain and inexperience on the mountain. If weather moves in at the wrong time 1986 and 2008 are going to look like minor disasters.
There are concerns about too many people on the mountain and inexperience on the mountain. If weather moves in at the wrong time 1986 and 2008 are going to look like minor disasters.
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