The Hero with a Thousand Faces -
Why do we keep telling the same stories over and over?
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Sunday, 20 April 2014
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quote [ On April 17, at about 6:30 a.m. local time, an avalanche swept down off the west shoulder of Everest and killed 16 climbers. To anybody who?s familiar with Everest climbing, it should come as no surprise that all of the men were Sherpa porters. ]
More by the same author:
The Disposable Man: A Western History of Sherpas on Everest http://www.outsideonline.com/outdoor-adventure/climbing/mountaineering/Disposable-Man-History-of-the-Sherpa-on-Everest.html Take a Number - Why People Keep Dying on Everest http://www.outsideonline.com/outdoor-adventure/climbing/mountaineering/everest-2012/Take-a-Number.html?page=all News article on the tragedy Death toll climbs to at least 13 in worst tragedy on Everest http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/04/19/us-nepal-everest-idUSBREA3H06L20140419
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ComposerNate said @ 5:43pm GMT on 21st Apr
[Score:2 Underrated]
Now in northern India, tomorrow I hike a bit up the Himalayas, past a Tibetan monastery. It's supposed to be seven hours of lovely scenery.
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steele said @ 6:09pm GMT on 21st Apr
Did.. did you drive to india?
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ComposerNate said @ 6:50pm GMT on 22nd Apr
[Score:1 Funny]
My mom asked the same.
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steele said @ 8:01pm GMT on 22nd Apr
I even checked it on google maps :)
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Dumbledorito said @ 12:31am GMT on 22nd Apr
But no WiFi, right? Screw that.
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ComposerNate said @ 6:50pm GMT on 22nd Apr
Wifi in the 3$ hotel room, enough for me to upload photos as backup to dropbox. Also small videos, including my heavy breathing from such an interminably long hike. Eleven hour day. Sunburned.
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HoZay said @ 4:07am GMT on 22nd Apr
Pix please.
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ComposerNate said @ 6:52pm GMT on 22nd Apr
[Score:2 Underrated]
Wait a touch, or see some on my facebook page: T. Nathan Roane
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sanepride said @ 4:14am GMT on 20th Apr
Heard this interview with the author yesterday. It is a particularly interesting form of economic exploitation, which it seems the Sherpas are happy to embrace.
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lilmookieesquire said @ 5:09am GMT on 20th Apr
I heard they were going to put a big esculator on the side of the thing.
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lalanda said @ 6:15am GMT on 20th Apr
Defeated by the schwa.
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lilmookieesquire said @ 8:05am GMT on 20th Apr
es-k schwa
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fishhat said @ 10:57pm GMT on 20th Apr
With a big osculator at the top!
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mechanical contrivance said @ 2:06am GMT on 21st Apr
One of those towers with a rotating restaurant at the top.
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Abdul Alhazred said @ 5:42am GMT on 20th Apr
I once read that there are quite a few bodies up there, people who died in their tents or from a fall and have been left there because no one has the strength or will to carry them out. It's rather sickening that climbing that mountain has become just another ego trip for people with more money than sense.
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damnit said @ 7:54am GMT on 20th Apr
[Score:3 Interesting]
If it's not for science, more often than not it's personal (bucket list, cancer survivor "I can do it" goal, etc)
Here's one from 2 years ago that's for science: Six-Legged Giant Finds Secret Hideaway, Hides for 80 years |
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papango said @ 8:05am GMT on 20th Apr
[Score:1 Informative]
Yeah, there's loads of bodies up there. If a person dies in bad conditions the body is often not found until much much later, by which time they have frozen solid and into the ice around them. So getting them out is a whole big thing.
What's worse than that, though, is the litter. Empty oxygen bottles, food packaging, broken equipment and so forth. And nothing rots up there. Every last climber turd is still up there somewhere. The Nepalese brought in a new rule last month that every climber has to bring back 8 kilos of rubbish, as well as there own garbage. http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/mar/03/mount-everest-litter-nepal-climbers |
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Dumbledorito said @ 6:15am GMT on 20th Apr
Can we send the Koch Brothers?
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ENZ said @ 11:43pm GMT on 20th Apr
Yeah, there's one famous one, "green boots", that's not too far from the main trail.
Anyway, here's an SCP that's relevant. http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-1529 I really wish Hollywood would contact that site and buy the rights to a lot of this stuff. I'd watch the hell out of a movie about that entry alone. |
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I'm fascinated by the industry that has developed around climbing Everest. Especially the role of Sherpas in ensuring paying clients get up and down the mountain in the easiest way possible.