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corker2k posted:Interestingly the vast majority of their coverage to date has been about Nepal and Kathmandu and not Everest and climbers. Well there are 700,000 people living in piles of rubble in Kathmandu vs. a few hundred rich foreigners stranded on Everest.
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Please also consider adding Doctors Without Borders to the aid organization list: https://donate.doctorswithoutborders.org/truenorth/alt/landing_page_onetime.cfm They already have teams on the ground (they left India the morning of April 26) and are sending more: http://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/article/msf-sending-more-medical-and-relief-teams-assist-victims-nepal-earthquake I have a climbing related question: why don't more climbers wear a ski mask or some other full face protection? I see all these documentaries and video from real events that show climbers with badly frostbitten/icy/sunburned faces, and there is discussion of wind chill of like -40F. So why are their faces bare?
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I think the problem is, and this is based on my experience of wearing sunglasses in Chicago when it's -20C outside and windy, is that something like a ski mask would quickly become really loving cold itself and potentially stick to the face / make it colder than just having a scarf and hood combo. If you had some sort of full head helmet that might do the trick but probably would come with additional problems.
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If I were on Mount Everest right now I'd probably be eating my climbing buddies right this moment, I'm impatient I guess.
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Apr 27, 2015 18:20
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smoobles posted:If I were on Mount Everest right now I'd probably be eating my climbing buddies right this moment, I'm impatient I guess. why wait? i've never needed the excuse of being on everest
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Apr 27, 2015 18:22
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I'd hide behind a snowbank when the helicopter came, and then grab all the abandoned oxygen and go to the summit and moon all those losers who wussed out, as the KING OF THE MOUNTAIN.
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Apr 27, 2015 18:26
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if i were on everest right now id be worried that the nepalese people arent being talked about in this thread
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Apr 27, 2015 18:36
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Troublemaker posted:Oh dear god, I can't imagine slowly making my way over that horrible icefall and suddenly getting hit by an earthquake/avalanche. Maybe still clipped onto a ladder as the whole thing plunges into a crevasse. Ugh. 
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Apr 27, 2015 18:37
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how will this look on the q2 repoooooooort
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Apr 27, 2015 18:38
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I don't have money to donate, but to anyone on Everest that is reading this: stay safe guys!
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FordPRefectLL posted:if i were on everest right now id be worried that the nepalese people arent being talked about in this thread This thread has talked about the Sherpa people a lot. There is another thread for non-Everest earthquake news, if you prefer.
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Apr 27, 2015 19:34
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General Bullshit › Everest 2015. Non-Everest-related earthquake discussion is over that way.
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Apr 27, 2015 19:48
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Color me surprised when I wake up to find out that my estranged mother is in Nepal somewhere via Facebook safety check-in thing. I have no details.
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Apr 27, 2015 20:06
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"Alex and Sam Chappette via twitter posted:We are the last team on the hill now. Looks like its over.. Again. Trying to get a chopper via @thebmc. Still sunny Pretty cool, they've got a delorme location/message thing here. It's got to be pretty disconcerting to be the last group still on the mountain.
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It looks like everyone has been rescued? https://twitter.com/ClimbingMag/status/592758112064507906
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Apr 27, 2015 20:16
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Happy Hedonist posted:It looks like everyone has been rescued? Good to hear. Situations like this are where Twitter really shines, imo. I have no interest in celebrity slapfights, but Twitter can be a really effective medium for quickly relaying breaking news, especially if the regular media isn't on-site (yet).
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Apr 27, 2015 20:19
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isnt fishtail air the company simone moro owns/flys for?
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Happy Hedonist posted:It looks like everyone has been rescued? It only appears that way. Once the mountain has its prey in its sights, it can stalk for years.
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Apr 27, 2015 20:28
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China has reported no fatalities on the Tibet side. All of the climbers returned safely. They also did it somersaulting down the mountain, hand-in-hand with local Tibetans who were happy to have them there and understand that the Dalai Lama is a splittist terrorist like Osama bin Laden who probably planted bombs on Everest. In other words, their news organization isn't super-reliable.
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Apr 27, 2015 20:33
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Actual China reported at least 20 fatalities in Tibet and rarely allows expeditions up Everest.
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Where should I donate if I want my money to go to the dead executives on everest? Thanks in advance.
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FordPRefectLL posted:if i were on everest right now id be worried that the nepalese people arent being talked about in this thread If I were really worried about the people of Nepal I would probably use their preferred term "Nepali" rather than the "Nepalese" thing that imperial England came up with but that's just me.
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i have a nepali friend from college and her and her family are safe. well thanks for reading.
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Paramemetic posted:If I were really worried about the people of Nepal I would probably use their preferred term "Nepali" I thought it was a mod for Unreal
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Apr 27, 2015 21:19
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Glad they got everyone off that they could. This year and the last have sure been a doozy.
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Apr 27, 2015 21:20
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If I was on Mount Everest right now I would start writing the $$$ book about this whole poo poo for all the white betas back home.
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Apr 27, 2015 21:22
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Why is China so stingy with letting Everest runs happen
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Happy Hedonist posted:It looks like everyone has been rescued? Nope; the Chappette team is still on C2 - http://www.twoadventurists.com/blog/we-are-the-last-team-on-the-hill-now
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Happy Hedonist posted:It looks like everyone has been rescued? Does this include all the hundreds of people reported "missing" earlier, I wonder? Or were they just missing at other camps before they trekked down and got evacuated.
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MOVIE MAJICK posted:Why is China so stingy with letting Everest runs happen Unlike the government of Nepal, the government of China does not make a significant amount of money (compared to their other revenue sources) on selling climbing permits for Everest. Why should they put a lot of time and effort into attracting a couple thousand tourists a year to remote mountainous regions? They probably get more economic stimulus attracting a couple million tourists to the Great Wall annually, so that'd be the smart place to focus their time and effort and money. Also I think the North route is considerably more difficult, so they can't just parade a bunch of idiot tourists up the mountain effectively. You have to actually know some mountain-climbing skills to do it from there.
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if anybody had the ability and will to drill a pressurised lift shaft into the side of the mountain it would be china
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Somehow I get the feeling China doesn't want any more international tourists going to Tibet than they can background check and inspect their gear shipments.
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So which team is going to decide to try and make a summit attempt this year anyway?
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SLICK GOKU BABY posted:So which team is going to decide to try and make a summit attempt this year anyway? I doubt the sherpas are up for it. Most of them just want to get home and dig grandma out of the rubble.
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24 Green Berets happened to be in Nepal for altitude training and other training with Nepal armed forces. Apparently the some of the Green Berets are doing SAR on routes/base camp for Everest. http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/nepal-earthquake/nepal-earthquake-american-green-berets-reassigned-help-quake-rescue-n349021
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quote:Also Monday, Secretary of State John Kerry announced that the United States will commit $9 million more to earthquake relief, on top of an existing commitment of $1 million cool e: also the US pledged like 1000x that for the haiti eq, kinda weird. i guess we'll need to save every cent for when theres a big san andreas event that causes hundreds of trillions of damage Xaris fucked around with this message at 22:56 on Apr 27, 2015 |
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zedprime posted:Somehow I get the feeling China doesn't want any more international tourists going to Tibet than they can background check and inspect their gear shipments. Plus Tibet is usually totally closed to foreigners in March (the anniversary of the Tibetan Uprising) and July (the Dalai Lama's birthday) because of general periods of "unrest." Sometimes TAR (the Tibetan Autonomous Region, where Everest is) stays closed for the whole spring.
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canadianclassic posted:he is rich and white For gently caress sake. He's a professional mountaineer, not "a rich white guy." If you guys cannot loving understand the difference between the rich douche bags with little or no climbing experience that  $50 grand to get practically carried to the top of Everest and guys who make their living climbing mountains, you really aren't worth talking to. Plus, I will own it. There really isn't much redeemable about rich people period--no matter what ethnicity they might be. Angela Christine posted:I doubt the sherpas are up for it. Most of them just want to get home and dig grandma out of the rubble. Probably 0 teams; however, "alpine" style climbers don't use Sherpas or HAPS. ZombieLenin fucked around with this message at 22:59 on Apr 27, 2015 |
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Xaris posted:So like... 1/1000th of an lovely social media iphone app Not really. Right now it's simply a focus on getting the patient stabilized by addressing immediate needs such as WASH, food, and shelter. Damage and long-term needs assessments are ongoing. US is also sending human assets (SAR teams) which are not accounted for in dollar amounts. The real huge aid push will happen for the rebuilding and recovery stage. OCHA financial tracking keeps a breakdown of everything. http://fts.unocha.org/pageloader.aspx?page=emerg-emergencyDetails&emergID=16575
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ZombieLenin posted:For gently caress sake. He's a professional mountaineer, not "a rich white guy." If you guys cannot loving understand the difference between the rich douche bags with little or no climbing experience that I remember in the literature written about old school (pre-1980's) alpine climbers, they would hire like 80 people to move their gear to base camp, but when it came to actual climbing, it would basically be just them. They also wouldn't leave anybody behind. I think in the book "Annapurna" (overrated, BTW) it's mentioned that they were all tied together and they collectively refused to cut the rope when one of them slipped, so they all ended up hanging by one ice pick, determined to live or die together.
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