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raydawg Serious Thumper Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 11551 pacific northwest Gender:	WHY......???? 05/30/19 at 07:30:48 I find it troubling...... Is this the resulting of maximum selfishness? Why? https://www.foxnews.com/world/mount-everest-climbers-crushed-together-nepal-p...
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verslagen1 YaBB Moderator ModSquad Offline Where there's a will, I want to be in it. Posts: 28834 L.A. California Gender:	Re: WHY......???? Reply #1 - 05/30/19 at 08:23:56 Only the rich can go.
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Reply #2 - 05/30/19 at 09:11:08

verslagen1 wrote on 05/30/19 at 08:23:56:

Only the rich can go.

I just got curious and looked it up. The cost can be $45,000 and above if you plan your trip with a western agency.....$25,000 - $40,000 if you hire a local company to take you up.

That is a lot of money to go winter camping, trash up a mountain with your spent oxygen bottles and waste - and risk your life in the process!

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verslagen1 YaBB Moderator ModSquad Offline Where there's a will, I want to be in it. Posts: 28834 L.A. California Gender:	Re: WHY......???? Reply #3 - 05/30/19 at 10:01:23 Plus the trainer to put you in peak physical condition prior to going.
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jcstokes Serious Thumper Offline SuzukiSavage.com is very useful Posts: 2119 Mauku New Zealand Gender:	Re: WHY......???? Reply #4 - 05/30/19 at 12:18:46 Some may not be in the peak of physical condition.
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Reply #5 - 05/30/19 at 12:39:53

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That is a lot of money to go winter camping, trash up a mountain with your spent oxygen bottles and waste - and risk your life in the process!

Yep. The tallest mountain on the planet, a true natural wonder, has been turned into a very expensive, very dangerous theme park.

Biological material takes forever to decompose in the cold, dry, oxygen depleted, atmosphere near the top. There are bodies along the route to the summit that have been there for years. They are just trail markers now. Surrounding the high altitude camps are vast fields of frozen human turds that will be there for many many years.

When Edmund Hillary was the first to reach the summit it meant something. For the 300th or three thousandth or whatever, not so much.

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Ruttly Serious Thumper Offline Thumpers Rule Posts: 5043 Manteca , CA Gender:	Re: WHY......???? Reply #6 - 05/30/19 at 13:15:45 They need a zip lines ! Climb up , get you pics , then jump on a zip line to get down out of the death zone. That would be hella fun Stairway to the heavens and a zip line back down. They could process more climbers , make more money with fewer deaths.
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hotrod Senior Member Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 326 NC Gender:	Re: WHY......???? Reply #7 - 05/30/19 at 15:11:37 I could have told them that there was nothing on the top of that mountain.
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Ruttly Serious Thumper Offline Thumpers Rule Posts: 5043 Manteca , CA Gender:	Re: WHY......???? Reply #8 - 05/30/19 at 17:03:14 Yup nothing , but the best view in the world !
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verslagen1 YaBB Moderator ModSquad Offline Where there's a will, I want to be in it. Posts: 28834 L.A. California Gender:	Re: WHY......???? Reply #9 - 05/30/19 at 18:05:24 I hear there's a lot of poopsicles available.
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Ruttly Serious Thumper Offline Thumpers Rule Posts: 5043 Manteca , CA Gender:	Re: WHY......???? Reply #10 - 05/30/19 at 19:13:22 Mostly Fudgicles
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jcstokes Serious Thumper Offline SuzukiSavage.com is very useful Posts: 2119 Mauku New Zealand Gender:	Re: WHY......???? Reply #11 - 05/30/19 at 23:15:58 What if these "poopsicles" freeze half way out, what happens to male genitalia, if exposed to these very low temeratures for any length of time? Don't forget, humans need bragging rights.
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Reply #12 - 05/31/19 at 08:40:42

jcstokes wrote on 05/30/19 at 23:15:58:

What if these "poopsicles" freeze half way out, what happens to male genitalia, if exposed to these very low temeratures for any length of time? Don't forget, humans need bragging rights.

Kinda reminds me of my sick brain thinking....

I use to think just how embarrassed I would be at my funeral if no one shows up.....

I am sure my wife would tell me: "See, I told you everyone thought you a ARSE-HOLE!!!"

Me thinks better now, I don't think it would bother me....much. Grin

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justin_o_guy2 Serious Thumper Offline What happened? Posts: 55279 East Texas, 1/2 dallas/la.	Re: WHY......???? Reply #13 - 05/31/19 at 11:26:39 Outside the immediate family,I can think of four who would be there. I'm comforted by that. Being loved by many idiots isn't as desirable as being loved by a few realistic people.
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Dave YaBB Moderator ModSquad Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 17893 Camp Springs, Kentucky Gender:	Re: WHY......???? Reply #14 - 05/31/19 at 14:40:55 justin_o_guy2 wrote on 05/31/19 at 11:26:39: Being loved by many idiots isn't as desirable as being loved by a few realistic people. Did you just imply that I am an idiot?
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