https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/amp.theg ... nt-everest
There’s 150+ dead bodies up there, plus over 100,000 pounds of garbage. And the glaciers under all that rotting garbage are melting.
The Death Zone
The Death Zone
Isn’t it about time to shut this down?
https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/amp.theg ... nt-everest
There’s 150+ dead bodies up there, plus over 100,000 pounds of garbage. And the glaciers under all that rotting garbage are melting.
https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/amp.theg ... nt-everest
There’s 150+ dead bodies up there, plus over 100,000 pounds of garbage. And the glaciers under all that rotting garbage are melting.
For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
~ Carl Sagan
~ Carl Sagan
Re: The Death Zone
Why shut it down?
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
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Bicycle Bill
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Re: The Death Zone
That's how man shows he was somewhere.... he doesn't erect a flag; he leaves his litter. Have we been to Everest? Did Amundsen make it to the South Pole? Did we put a man on the moon? Sure we did; and the shit we left there (figuratively as well as literally; baggies of the astronauts' bodily wastes, like little bags of doggie-do, were among the unnecessary material jettisoned before the lunar modules lifted off) proves it!!
Just think ... someday, when we finally go back to the moon, someone will undoubtedly retrieve those and bring them back for scientific study, and after analyzing those turds they will be able to tell us just what Neil Armstrong had for brekkie before taking his historic "first step".
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Just think ... someday, when we finally go back to the moon, someone will undoubtedly retrieve those and bring them back for scientific study, and after analyzing those turds they will be able to tell us just what Neil Armstrong had for brekkie before taking his historic "first step".
-"BB"-
Yes, I suppose I could agree with you ... but then we'd both be wrong, wouldn't we?
Re: The Death Zone
Follow the money. Not our call.
Re: The Death Zone
Solution: the local government charges each climber a tax that is used to hire local people to clean up as much of the trash that they can safely reach.
Soon, I’ll post my farewell message. The end is starting to get close. There are many misconceptions about me, and before I go, to live with my ancestors on the steppes, I want to set the record straight.
Re: The Death Zone
Sure, because climbing to 25,000 feet to do their job is something that every sanitation worker dreams of.
"Hang on while I log in to the James Webb telescope to search the known universe for who the fuck asked you." -- James Fell
Re: The Death Zone
Death Zone: Cleaning Mount Everest shows the risk to life involved in trying to clean the mountain. Sherpa shows the way the Nepalese and others are exploited and put at risk to do all the heavy lifting for many of the climbers, including CARRYING some of the lazy rich fucks up the mountain.
I’m not saying it should be closed off to very serious mountaineers, but that’s not the situation at present. It’s been commercialized and many people going aren’t really prepared for the challenge - and guides and Sherpa die trying to save them. Not to mention all the garbage.
The number of expeditions should be strictly limited and a stricter criteria to qualify to climb.
I’m not saying it should be closed off to very serious mountaineers, but that’s not the situation at present. It’s been commercialized and many people going aren’t really prepared for the challenge - and guides and Sherpa die trying to save them. Not to mention all the garbage.
The number of expeditions should be strictly limited and a stricter criteria to qualify to climb.
For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
~ Carl Sagan
~ Carl Sagan
Re: The Death Zone
At the peak of Mt Everest an American said to an Englishman, "I came here to die".
The Englishman replied, "Oh really? I came here yesterday".
The Englishman replied, "Oh really? I came here yesterday".
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MajGenl.Meade
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Re: The Death Zone
Surely, an Australian? An Aussie man was standing naked in front of a mirror bemoaning his ever-expanding waist. "Why don't you diet?" asked his wife. "Because I like it the color it is," he replied
For Christianity, by identifying truth with faith, must teach-and, properly understood, does teach-that any interference with the truth is immoral. A Christian with faith has nothing to fear from the facts