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Title: Deadliest Avalanche Ever on Mount Everest
Post by: BluBerry on April 18, 2014, 09:58:02 AM

http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/avalanche-sweeps-everest-believed-buried-23373209

Title: Re: Deadliest Avalanche Ever on Mount Everest
Post by: zack1234 on April 18, 2014, 11:04:00 AM

Dont climb up mountains for no financial gain :old:

Title: Re: Deadliest Avalanche Ever on Mount Everest
Post by: NatCigg on April 18, 2014, 09:43:06 PM

sounds devastating  :uhoh

i wonder how much sherpas make so people can climb the mountain.

Title: Re: Deadliest Avalanche Ever on Mount Everest
Post by: guncrasher on April 18, 2014, 09:51:57 PM

the 12 killed were all sherpa guides.  that makes me wonder, how many people go back to their countries and and tell everybody how the conquered the tallest mountain in the word and everybody high fives them for their bravery.  while the sherpas go back home and the wife ask "how was your day" and they reply "so I climbed mt everest, again, just another boring day at the office."


semp

Title: Re: Deadliest Avalanche Ever on Mount Everest
Post by: NatCigg on April 19, 2014, 06:16:11 PM

"A Sherpa typically earns about $US125 ($134) per climb per legal load, which the government has set at about 9 kilograms, though young men will double that to earn more, guides say. Raised on stories of wealth earned on expeditions, they also have very little choice, coming from remote places where there is little opportunity other than high-altitude potato farming."

http://www.smh.com.au/world/everest-sherpas-risk-all-for-wealthy-clients-20140419-zqwn5.html

Title: Re: Deadliest Avalanche Ever on Mount Everest
Post by: craz07 on April 19, 2014, 06:35:02 PM

LMAO

Title: Re: Deadliest Avalanche Ever on Mount Everest
Post by: craz07 on April 19, 2014, 06:39:19 PM

hey they chose it.. now live it.. or die it..

Title: Re: Deadliest Avalanche Ever on Mount Everest
Post by: Scherf on April 19, 2014, 11:31:00 PM

Hmm. I have a good deal more sympathy for the Sherpas than for the tourists.

Title: Re: Deadliest Avalanche Ever on Mount Everest
Post by: Bruv119 on April 19, 2014, 11:41:45 PM

Quote from: zack1234 on April 18, 2014, 11:04:00 AM

Dont climb up mountains for no financial gain :old:

I thought you were a commie??     :old: