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 Post subject: Everest
PostPosted: Sat Dec 17, 2022 11:34 pm 
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Теперь предлагаем бесплатную ежедневную маммографию!
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Watching a movie about it just now. Pay $65,000 (then - or as much as 125 grand now) for the privilege of freezing a limb off, taking a swan dive down a bottomless crevasse or becoming a permanent landmark on the mountain when you die of altitude sickness or the other things that kill people up there? No thank you, please.

Sherpas make big $ hauling oxygen bottles, food and climbers that can no longer climb due to frozen extremities. There's a lot of junk up there, too. I understand there are measures in place for expeditions to clean up after themselves, but I have doubts how effectively that's done. Nepal makes BIG money from expedition licenses.

There are other peaks within sight of Everest that are even more hazardous - K2 and Anna Purna, to name a couple of them. But there are long lists to make the climb, even though there's no guarantee you'll summit.

I hiked (no actual climbing with ropes) Laramie Peak in Wyo - 11,000' - and that was plenty for me. But it was a nice day, and we could see forever. Cost? A tank of gas from home to there and back. (We can see Laramie peak from here.)

Even when I was young and in shape, Everest wasn't on my bucket list. Plenty of other people want to go, though. SW

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 Post subject: Re: Everest
PostPosted: Sun Dec 18, 2022 12:19 am 
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Last article I read on it cited some fairly serious problems with human ( #2 ) waste up there at the last camp before the peak.
Fairly certain it was Nat Geo Mag rag I read it in.
Garbage and litter are a problem at the lower altitude camps.
Same article had Nepal imposing a moratorium on access.
I suppose if your pockets are deep enough....

Personally, I wouldn't want to try. Still have a bit of fear of heights, but work has "cured" a lot of it.
There has been some quite stunning photography done on the mountain- especially by the earlier expeditions.

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 Post subject: Re: Everest
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ya , this would never have been on my bucket list - there are other things but they are warmer and there is oxygen available without a tank ............so that eliminates deep dives as well


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