Annual Everest Thread: Well they always told me getting high was dangerous.

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The Something Awful Forums > Archives > General Bullshit > Annual Everest Thread: Well they always told me getting high was dangerous.

Empty Sandwich: Apr 22, 2008; goatse mugs

https://newrepublic.com/article/154201/ive-climbed-everest-21-times-its-not-mountain-used-be

Interesting piece by a Sherpa guide.

quote:

I didn’t get that much money from portering. So when I became older, I became a trekking guide. It’s very risky, very dangerous, but you get a little more money. So I started climbing these smalls peaks—6,000 meters. I didn’t summit Everest, which is about 8,800 meters, until 1990.

The first time I climbed to the top, I was excited for the adventure. But to me, it was my job. And it was a very dangerous job. Once, in 2006, two of my Sherpa climbers got buried when ice collapsed in the Khumbu Icefall. One of the climbers was my niece’s husband. Despite many rescue efforts, we were never able to recover their bodies. I had to return back home to my niece without her husband.

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Empty Sandwich: Apr 22, 2008; goatse mugs

Fish Noise posted:

ice axes

my plan is to read this in both senses always

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