Sherpa me wrote:
Everest Base Camp (Nepal) (AFP) – The Everest industry is suffering from a dangerous shortage of its most important resource: experienced Sherpa guides.
Ethnic Sherpas from the valleys around Everest have become synonymous with high altitude climbing.
With their unique ability to work in a low-oxygen, high altitude atmosphere, they are the backbone of the industry, hauling clients and equipment to the top of the 8,848-metre (29,029-foot) mountain.
The number of Everest climbers has more than doubled in two decades, however, and the Sherpa supply has not kept pace. Raw recruits are now being used to reach the top and it has already taken a toll.
Dawa Sange Sherpa, 20, summited Mount Everest last year — a first for him and the climber he was with.
On the way down, the cold, lack of oxygen and exhaustion took hold. The pair collapsed just below the summit and were found hours later, barely alive.
“My friend said to me, ‘He’s done’. But I found a small pulse in him,” said guide Ang Tshering Lama, who found Sange.
https://www.afp.com/en/news/205/sherpa-shortage-takes-toll-everest-doc-12v0yq4– ‘Risky business’ –
No qualifications are needed to work on Everest. Some expedition operators require staff to do one of two short courses for mountain workers. Others do not.
Mingma dismissed the Nepal Mountaineering Association courses as worthless, saying everything could be learned on the mountain.
“My Sherpa don’t have any training with NMA. NMA training for us is not enough, we should do our own training on the mountain,” he said.
Dawa Steven Sherpa of Asian Trekking requires all staff to have done the NMA course. He said that budget expedition operators hire inexperienced Sherpa to cut costs.
“As long as his name is Sherpa,” he quipped of the recruitment criteria.
Obviously, the guy couldn't take a hint.....
Wait, we should encourage Nick Symmonds to climb Mount Everest.
Darwin award candidate.
Who funded this idiot?
Lydiard Cerutty wrote:
Wait, we should encourage Nick Symmonds to climb Mount Everest.
You wish Symmonds dead? What has the guy done to you?
Luv2Run wrote:
Lydiard Cerutty wrote:
Wait, we should encourage Nick Symmonds to climb Mount Everest.
You wish Symmonds dead? What has the guy done to you?
That was a joke.
Unfortunately that kind of Japanese person still is the majority of the population of Japan, i.e. the 'no-failure until death' mentality dominated the Japanese psyche very now today. China watches hidden, secret Japan Advance Physics, Nuclear Weapons programs for fear of repeated Japanese aggresssions.
Lydiard Cerutty wrote:
Luv2Run wrote:
You wish Symmonds dead? What has the guy done to you?
That was a joke.
Not a very good one.
He hasn't been positively identified yet - the police are still awaiting results from the nub print lab. More on this story as it develops.
Luv2Run wrote:
Lydiard Cerutty wrote:
Wait, we should encourage Nick Symmonds to climb Mount Everest.
You wish Symmonds dead? What has the guy done to you?
I was thinking the same thing...how could you wish someone dead? That's pretty disgusting human behavior. You might want to reevaluate yourself, and why you'd wish death on someone that you've likely never even met.
ha ha
MOC wrote:
Luv2Run wrote:
You wish Symmonds dead? What has the guy done to you?
I was thinking the same thing...how could you wish someone dead? That's pretty disgusting human behavior. You might want to reevaluate yourself, and why you'd wish death on someone that you've likely never even met.
It is funny because Nick already announced that he would climb Everest in the future. It is also funny that others run to Nick's defense unaware of his plans/self-promotion/whatever.
On an unrelated note, I could really use some gum, but also need to get a boost of caffeine. Any ideas?
He'll be a hero now and get his own Natl Park like Shogun Tokugawa's Nikon National Park, the World's 1st National Park ever on Earth.
I am aware of Nick's announced Everest attempt. That doesn't make it funny (nor am I really offended, it's just a lame joke).
BANZAI
OMG lemme draw a picture wrote:
MOC wrote:
I was thinking the same thing...how could you wish someone dead? That's pretty disgusting human behavior. You might want to reevaluate yourself, and why you'd wish death on someone that you've likely never even met.
It is funny because Nick already announced that he would climb Everest in the future. It is also funny that others run to Nick's defense unaware of his plans/self-promotion/whatever.
On an unrelated note, I could really use some gum, but also need to get a boost of caffeine. Any ideas?
No, you're wrong on all accounts. Nothing about it was funny. I'm fully aware of his sub4 mile/Everest Schlick; and that certainly doesnt make the comment any less inappropriate. Disgusting.
MOC wrote:
OMG lemme draw a picture wrote:
It is funny because Nick already announced that he would climb Everest in the future. It is also funny that others run to Nick's defense unaware of his plans/self-promotion/whatever.
On an unrelated note, I could really use some gum, but also need to get a boost of caffeine. Any ideas?
No, you're wrong on all accounts. Nothing about it was funny. I'm fully aware of his sub4 mile/Everest Schlick; and that certainly doesnt make the comment any less inappropriate. Disgusting.
"I believe you can joke about anything."-George Carlin
https://youtu.be/fwMukKqx-OsYes, George Carlin can (could) joke about anything because he was funny. How does that apply to the Symmonds comment?
@sand dunes et al wrote:
Yes, George Carlin can (could) joke about anything because he was funny. How does that apply to the Symmonds comment?
It WAS funny.
You miserable nugget.
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