Hundreds Stranded At The Top Of The World

[toobfreak]

I've never been there but I've heard for years that commercialization of mountain-hiking tours has lead to massive traffic jams at places like Mount Everest. More and more and less experienced people are being attracted by the promise of guides, aides, and local facilities to make climbing Everest more like a weekend camp-out in the park. But what happens is that they get log jams on the mountain with people up there standing in line waiting for a chance to stand at the highest point, and with hardly nowhere to stand or walk in a place that is so hard to get to that one can barely even get there.

To do Everest, after you've made it to base camp 2 and gotten acclimated to the altitude and low oxygen, to reach the summit, you must leave before sunrise in the dark, get to the top, stand there maybe 2 minutes, then huff it back down while the weather holds out, the oxygen holds out, and before it gets too late. The pathway up to the top is littered with trash and dead bodies.

Of course, once you leave base camp, you are committed. The weather is highly changeable and apparently this time it changed for the worse far worse and far sooner than anyone realized, stranding 500 people up there in a blizzard. Rescuers managed to get about 350 of them down with another 200 still trapped up there. Temperatures up there can drop to as low as -70°F below zero with 100 mph winds, and not enough oxygen up there to breath to keep a penguin alive.

Hundreds of hikers are trapped on Mount Everest. Rescue efforts are underway.

Hundreds of Mount Everest hikers became stranded when a blizzard began on the mountain on Friday, Oct. 3.

www.usatoday.com

It is so bad up there that authorities have shut the mountain down refusing to sell anyone anymore tickets.

 

[Muhammed]

There's an age old method to solve this problem. A good old fashioned game of King of the Mountain.

 

[1srelluc]

 

[PeterPilot]

I've never been there but I've heard for years that commercialization of mountain-hiking tours has lead to massive traffic jams at places like Mount Everest. More and more and less experienced people are being attracted by the promise of guides, aides, and local facilities to make climbing Everest more like a weekend camp-out in the park. But what happens is that they get log jams on the mountain with people up there standing in line waiting for a chance to stand at the highest point, and with hardly nowhere to stand or walk in a place that is so hard to get to that one can barely even get there.

To do Everest, after you've made it to base camp 2 and gotten acclimated to the altitude and low oxygen, to reach the summit, you must leave before sunrise in the dark, get to the top, stand there maybe 2 minutes, then huff it back down while the weather holds out, the oxygen holds out, and before it gets too late. The pathway up to the top is littered with trash and dead bodies.

Of course, once you leave base camp, you are committed. The weather is highly changeable and apparently this time it changed for the worse far worse and far sooner than anyone realized, stranding 500 people up there in a blizzard. Rescuers managed to get about 350 of them down with another 200 still trapped up there. Temperatures up there can drop to as low as -70°F below zero with 100 mph winds, and not enough oxygen up there to breath to keep a penguin alive.

Hundreds of hikers are trapped on Mount Everest. Rescue efforts are underway.

Hundreds of Mount Everest hikers became stranded when a blizzard began on the mountain on Friday, Oct. 3.

www.usatoday.com

It is so bad up there that authorities have shut the mountain down refusing to sell anyone anymore tickets.

To me this is yet more evidence there are too many humans on the planet. Places that are remote and wild are now crowded with human tourists.

 

[theHawk]

I've never been there but I've heard for years that commercialization of mountain-hiking tours has lead to massive traffic jams at places like Mount Everest. More and more and less experienced people are being attracted by the promise of guides, aides, and local facilities to make climbing Everest more like a weekend camp-out in the park. But what happens is that they get log jams on the mountain with people up there standing in line waiting for a chance to stand at the highest point, and with hardly nowhere to stand or walk in a place that is so hard to get to that one can barely even get there.

To do Everest, after you've made it to base camp 2 and gotten acclimated to the altitude and low oxygen, to reach the summit, you must leave before sunrise in the dark, get to the top, stand there maybe 2 minutes, then huff it back down while the weather holds out, the oxygen holds out, and before it gets too late. The pathway up to the top is littered with trash and dead bodies.

Of course, once you leave base camp, you are committed. The weather is highly changeable and apparently this time it changed for the worse far worse and far sooner than anyone realized, stranding 500 people up there in a blizzard. Rescuers managed to get about 350 of them down with another 200 still trapped up there. Temperatures up there can drop to as low as -70°F below zero with 100 mph winds, and not enough oxygen up there to breath to keep a penguin alive.

Hundreds of hikers are trapped on Mount Everest. Rescue efforts are underway.

Hundreds of Mount Everest hikers became stranded when a blizzard began on the mountain on Friday, Oct. 3.

www.usatoday.com

It is so bad up there that authorities have shut the mountain down refusing to sell anyone anymore tickets.

Let’s announce an Antifa protest there to protest President Trump, so they can go there in droves…

 

[Hellokitty]

I'm not an outdoorsy person so this is something I would never have any interest doing.

 

[toobfreak]

There's an age old method to solve this problem. A good old fashioned game of King of the Mountain.

Seriously, when I began following these expeditions, as typical expedition was maybe 5 or 10 people. If they had told me that the Shirpas who run these expeditions had booked 100 people to go up there the same day, I would have called that crazy and reckless. The fact that they had up to 1000 people booked up there at the same time bordering on criminal.

Nepal or Tibet needs to make an edict limiting Everest to 50 people at a time: maybe 15 people tops for the climb up, and 15 people for each of the bases, to be rotated out 15 at a time (or less) as more come down off the mountain.

Time was when only a few world class climbers even tried for Everest. Now every Joe Blow working some white collar office job with a weekend off is trying for it.

 

[Mr Natural]

Seems you can’t do anything anymore without making plans months or even years in advance.

 

[toobfreak]

To me this is yet more evidence there are too many humans on the planet. Places that are remote and wild are now crowded with human tourists.

Point well made. I was just watching a 1974 episode of All In The Family the other day with Mike bitching there were 4 billion people in the world as too many. There are now 8.2 billion.

Planet Earth will self-adjust one of these days with either famine, drought, disease or war. Most every problem we face today from Climate Change on to resources, crime, housing, water, electricity, traffic management, food and infrastructure are all eliminated and solved just by lowering world population.

I think 3-4 billion is a reasonable target number. All we need to do is just stop having babies for a while, then have fewer.

 

[toobfreak]

I'm not an outdoorsy person so this is something I would never have any interest doing.

Gee, Kitty, you are taking all of the fun out of sleeping in a tent in the bitter cold all bundled up with 100 mph winds blowing, hiking up where you can fall hundreds of feet as you step over dead bodies only to suck oxygen out of a bottle trying to stay conscious as your muscles ache and your toes turn to frostbite before bubbles of nitrogen form in your bloodstream in a place where if you get sick or hurt or ill, there is no possibility of rescue by helicopter--- they either leave you there to die, or if you're lucky, they might try to carry you back down if they can.

 

[1srelluc]

Seems you can’t do anything anymore without making plans months or even years in advance.

Yep, just too damn many people.

It runs the gambit from seeing a doctor to getting your car worked on.

The 70s was the sweet spot for the US population....Hard to believe the US population increased by a full 1/3+ in that amount of time.

1970
203.4 million
2025
347.28 million

 

[toobfreak]

Yep, just too damn many people.

Hopefully, leftists will continue to self-abort, die of fentanyl, and shoot each other as a way of staving off the problem.

The 70s was the sweet spot for the US population....Hard to believe the US population increased by a full 1/3+ in that amount of time.

1970
203.4 million
2025
347.28 million

Actually, isn't that an increase of 70%! Not 33.3%. The population of 2025 is 170% over that of 1970.

 

[1srelluc]

Hopefully, leftists will continue to self-abort, die of fentanyl, and shoot each other as a way of staving off the problem.


Actually, isn't that an increase of 70%! Not 33.3%. The population of 2025 is 170% over that of 1970.

I don't maths much.

Jokes aside the whole baby boomer thing was pretty much over by 1970 so where did they all come from?

 

[toobfreak]

Jokes aside the whole baby boomer thing was pretty much over by 1970 so where did they all come from?

Forced leftwing social organizing. Progs think the world is their chessboard and they are experimenting with moving and relocating whole populations.

Progs have 500 aid plans to get food and support out to millions of people living where there is no food or water or jobs, so they can stay alive and have babies so then there are even more mouths to feed.

Problem is, even a constant birth rate leads to proportionally more people as the population grows.

 

[Hellokitty]

Gee, Kitty, you are taking all of the fun out of sleeping in a tent in the bitter cold all bundled up with 100 mph winds blowing, hiking up where you can fall hundreds of feet as you step over dead bodies only to suck oxygen out of a bottle trying to stay conscious as your muscles ache and your toes turn to frostbite before bubbles of nitrogen form in your bloodstream in a place where if you get sick or hurt or ill, there is no possibility of rescue by helicopter--- they either leave you there to die, or if you're lucky, they might try to carry you back down if they can.

Yeah I don't do extreme cold, and try to avoid the ocean, sharks.
I would do some kind of safari to see big cats, and really only big cats.

 

[toobfreak]

In case anyone is tempted to climb Mt Everest themselves, here are some pictures to save you the trouble of going there.

 

[toobfreak]

Yeah I don't do extreme cold,

The good news is that if you die up there, your body can last 5000 years.

I would do some kind of safari to see big cats, and really only big cats.

 

[Hellokitty]

The good news is that if you die up there, your body can last 5000 years.


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Kitty meow meow

 

[drudge X]

Seems like Everest is a cash cow for the Napalese government. I don't think the government cares who lives or die as long as payment is made to climb the mountain.

 

[Hellokitty]

The good news is that if you die up there, your body can last 5000 years.


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Wait WTF, these cats are ALIVE... RIGHT!!!!