Everest

[phuketrichard]

Top of the world, am amazing place



Hundreds of climbers are streaming into Nepal and Tibet this week as the spring climbing season on Mount Everest begins. The stories to watch this year include an attempt at the first new route on the mountain in a decade, ominous weather indicators, shifts in who’s climbing the world’s highest mountain, a potentially record year for summits, and more. Here’s what you need to know. There could be more than 1,000 climbers, including support crews, on Everest this spring.

https://www.outsideonline.com/2393183/m ... 19-preview

On May 22, one of the best weather windows of the season so far opened up on Everest, and more than 200 climbers made their push for the summit of the world’s highest peak.

200 People in one day!! Everest has become a walk up mtn as long as one has enough $$$

https://www.outsideonline.com/sites/def ... ound-2.mp4

what to expect....https://www.outsideonline.com/2392617/e ... south-side

[Flexxman]

Mass-tourism...

"Every year, about 60,000 climbers, guides, and tourists visit the region of Everest between Nepal and Tibet, with hundreds attempting to climb the 8,850m (29,035ft) peak from both sides."

Nice to read though that an attempt is made to make cleaning up part of the experience: "Since 2015, officials in Tibet have required climbers to retrieve 8kg of rubbish, fining climbers $100 for every kilogram they are short."

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/ ... ns-cleanup

[Phnom Poon]

Mass-tourism...

"Every year, about 60,000 climbers, guides, and tourists visit the region of Everest between Nepal and Tibet, with hundreds attempting to climb the 8,850m (29,035ft) peak from both sides."

Nice to read though that an attempt is made to make cleaning up part of the experience: "Since 2015, officials in Tibet have required climbers to retrieve 8kg of rubbish, fining climbers $100 for every kilogram they are short."

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/ ... ns-cleanup

An attempt costs many $000's so $100/kg is not much incentive
They should weigh in and out, with an additional cleanup requirement, and charge $1000/kg deficient baggage, including corpses

[Flexxman]

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An attempt costs many $000's so $100/kg is not much incentive
They should weigh in and out, and charge $1000/kg baggage deficiency, including corpses
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Sure it is low in financial terms, especially if only the permit-fee is already $70K for a team or $25K for a single climber. Should raise it with another $10K just for cleaning. But maybe in mountaineering circles there is more peer-pressure, and the shame of not bringing back your back your trash works better than the fine? After all there are also yearly clean-up drives. On the other hand the mountain has been used as dump for ages so maybe they are not the type of "take-only-pictures-leave-only-footprints". Googling Everest trash unfortunately yields many examples. Leaving corpses regarding the risk to lives to retrieve - I can imagine that those remains are left up on the mountain.

[phuketrichard]

we did a clean up back in 1986 to base camp with a bunch of us , ( about 20 of us) from Nepal and HK,
took out about 1,000 kgs of trash. Amazing what is left there, even more so the higher up you go, ( camp 2, 3)

[AndyKK]

Friend of mine Doug Scott was to be the first to sumit, by climbing the Southwest Face with Haston,
they reached the summit of Mount Everest at 18:00, 24 September 1975.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1975_Br ... expedition

I met Doug when I contacted him if I could possibly be placed on a work placement with him. I was at college at the time studying as a mature student, wondering what to do after returning from India and the Himalaya.
Outdoor teacher in multiple countries was the answer, but part time later due to commitments.

A little more about Doug Scott.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doug_Scott

[markd]

should be compulsory that each climber takes a wheelie bin up & penalised if the wheelie bin is not chock a block full of shite when they return

[Phnom Poon]

https://www.outsideonline.com/2397164/e ... raffic-jam

[markd]

im surprised china hasnt built a casino up there

give the queue something to do whils they wait their turn

[John Bingham]

Would you ever give it a rest man.