Nepal to require all Mount Everest climbers to use a tracking chip
They're chipping these junkies now.
[quote]Ahead of the 2024 Mount Everest season, Nepal has announced a new requirement that all climbers must rent and use tracking chips on their journey. Reputed companies were already using them but now it’s been mandatory for all climbers. It will cut down search and rescue time in the event of an accident. Climbers will pay $10-15 apiece for the chips, which will be sewn into their jackets. Once the climber returns, the chip will be removed, given back to the government, and saved for the next person.
[quote]Last year, Nepal gave out a record 478 climbing permits. Twelve climbers were confirmed to have died on the mountain, while another five remain officially missing.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 40 | April 27, 2024 7:20 AM
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Me and the new boyfriend are doing this next year.
by Anonymous | reply 1 | March 1, 2024 2:34 PM
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Believe me when I say the whole of DL will have their fingers crossed, r1.
by Anonymous | reply 2 | March 1, 2024 2:36 PM
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R2 To wish or desire harm on someone is a sign of sociopathy. You are not sociopath however; you have just been used and abused. But it stops today. I take a stand. Because I will defend your honor and I will fight for you, physically, if necessary. I know they tore you down and said you would never be nothing. But you will be something because you are beautiful. And beauty and self love always reigns.
by Anonymous | reply 3 | March 1, 2024 2:40 PM
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Ewww you annoying phony troll R3.
by Anonymous | reply 4 | March 1, 2024 4:16 PM
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It's such a conga line now that it is almost meaningless.
by Anonymous | reply 5 | March 1, 2024 4:46 PM
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Teacake eaten by yetis
The entire population of Datalounge will cheer
by Anonymous | reply 6 | March 1, 2024 5:11 PM
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If you seek me, track me. No matter where you are, no matter how far. You don’t have to worry.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 7 | March 1, 2024 6:10 PM
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Do you at least get handed a chintzy Participation Trophy?
by Anonymous | reply 8 | March 1, 2024 6:13 PM
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I hope they all die in line! Take them Chomolungma!
by Anonymous | reply 10 | March 1, 2024 6:14 PM
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That picture is insane just to think about. If anyone can pay to go, then there’s nothing special about the “achievement.”
by Anonymous | reply 11 | March 1, 2024 6:21 PM
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Why should time and money be spent on trying to find and save these people? Let them die where they fall. You can't fix stupid. And they'll just try again and more time and money is lost.
by Anonymous | reply 12 | March 1, 2024 6:44 PM
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I highly recommend this documentary: The Man Who Skied Down Everest. The scenery alone is worth watching for. Fewer people in the 1970s and the editing isn’t jumping quickly from image to image. And the nerve of Yuichiro Miura to ski down Everest. He has great legs, too!
I found it on Hulu and Amazon prime.
I
by Anonymous | reply 13 | March 1, 2024 6:53 PM
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Time to rewatch movie "Everest," one of my all-time nonfiction favorites.
by Anonymous | reply 14 | March 1, 2024 6:57 PM
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Will the trackers work down crevasses and under avalanches? Is there an Everest 2024 thread yet?
by Anonymous | reply 15 | March 31, 2024 1:39 PM
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If I were sufficiently experienced and knowledgeable about mountain climbing and survival, I'd climb Everest.
As I am neither, there is no way I'd ever attempt it. But, it would be a spectacular once-in-a-lifetime experience.
by Anonymous | reply 16 | March 31, 2024 1:51 PM
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So… like…. when they find a dead guy, do they just take his chip back and give it to someone else to use? That just seems rude.
by Anonymous | reply 17 | March 31, 2024 1:54 PM
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Yay! My favorite time of year, Mount Everest dead bodies 22, Electric Boogaloo. I, for one, can't wait to hear all about it, Teacake. Will you be hiring a sherpa? Will you be using oxygen? Will you be starting tomorrow? Acclimation starts on April 1 and the climb takes 6 weeks, and don't be worried that the season starts on April fool's day, it's not at all a bad harbinger. Did you train for this? Did you gain weight? You'll lose about 40 pounds of muscle. What outfit are you climbing with? What side are you going up? How much did it cost? I have so many questions!
by Anonymous | reply 20 | March 31, 2024 11:36 PM
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R13 Thank you. Watching it now.
by Anonymous | reply 21 | April 1, 2024 3:02 AM
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Lose 40 lbs? Fuck, I may have to try that.
by Anonymous | reply 22 | April 1, 2024 4:37 AM
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Officially missing? I think if you disappear up there, it’s pretty safe to call you dead.
by Anonymous | reply 23 | April 1, 2024 4:47 AM
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I can never think of it now without seeing the piles of shit everybody leaves behind.
by Anonymous | reply 24 | April 1, 2024 7:03 AM
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And if I ever hear anyone talking about being there or planning to go I automatically hate their guts.
by Anonymous | reply 25 | April 1, 2024 7:06 AM
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I even hate George Lucas for naming his baby Everest
by Anonymous | reply 26 | April 1, 2024 7:13 AM
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R22 The weight you lose is muscle.
by Anonymous | reply 27 | April 1, 2024 4:46 PM
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R18 R19 Sandy is indeed a cunt but Beck Weathers is an asshole too. He shouldn't have even been up there with his recent eye surgery. He clearly had some kind of death wish. That whole season was just doomed.
by Anonymous | reply 28 | April 1, 2024 4:51 PM
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Forty pounds is forty pounds, r27.
I’d still be thin and beautiful!
by Anonymous | reply 29 | April 1, 2024 5:41 PM
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I'm surprised they haven't chipped climbers sooner. The Chicago Marathon was chipping runners 20 years ago.
by Anonymous | reply 30 | April 1, 2024 5:48 PM
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summary of Beck Weathers / may be of interest to those unfamilar
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 31 | April 2, 2024 3:16 AM
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R31
It’s startling that he survived at all.
by Anonymous | reply 32 | April 2, 2024 3:54 AM
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God the original thread (s) on this topic were incredible.
by Anonymous | reply 33 | April 16, 2024 12:12 AM
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George Mallory who was a very experienced mountaineer died there, what makes some of these people think they can do it.
by Anonymous | reply 34 | April 16, 2024 12:17 AM
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Anybody see the documentary Touching the Void (2003)? Watching it now, inspired by this topic.
I don't understand these people but they make for good entertainment.
by Anonymous | reply 35 | April 20, 2024 11:25 PM
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I've seen Touching the Void. Incredible that Joe Simpson crawled all that way with a shattered leg. The book and its sequel are excellent. His leg was never the same again even after numerous surgeries.
by Anonymous | reply 36 | April 21, 2024 8:12 AM
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r34 Speaking of George Mallory, I just came across this article today. All his letters to his wife are now available online.
[quote]Mallory was an alumnus of Magdalene College at the University of Cambridge, which maintains a collection of his personal correspondence, much of it between Mallory and his wife, Ruth. The college has now digitized the entire collection for public access.
[quote]As previously reported, Mallory is the man credited with uttering the famous line "because it's there" in response to a question about why he would risk his life repeatedly to summit Everest.
It should be noted that he had scaled it successfully twice before dying on the third expedition, aged 37.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 37 | April 22, 2024 9:42 AM
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Mallory was bisexual or gay.
"Nothing could be more rugged than the archive images of the mountaineer George Mallory preparing to tackle Everest in stout tweed suit and brown boots – and nothing more skittish than his newly discovered letters to the writer and leading member of the Bloomsbury set, Lytton Strachey.
“What a wicked old sodomite you are,” Mallory wrote fondly in April 1910, “with your Antonious and your Rupert and your beautiful young Lamb ... You might give a message of respectful affection to Rupert – is that permitted?”
Mallory, a Fabian, was friends with many of the Bloomsburies, and was painted by Duncan Grant. The letters are gossipy, flirtatious, and often explicitly gay. Mallory meets at Charterhouse “an ancient amour of mine ... a young man of 17 but still only just past the moment of puberty & with a fair skin & fair curly hair & red enticing lips! What will happen? His mother wrote me a confiding letter asking me to take care of him”.
Mallory and Sandy Irvine were having sex on Everest for sure.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 38 | April 27, 2024 5:38 AM
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I'm glad that I can still find magic and thrills in very simple things. Frankly just waking up every morning causes me to feel a great deal of awe and wonder. I do like to do things like ride roller coasters and really beautiful hikes that can be somewhat difficult but I don't feel like I need extreme danger to appreciate life or to feel that I've lived a fulfilled one.
by Anonymous | reply 39 | April 27, 2024 6:00 AM
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These climbers are idiots. Leave them up there
by Anonymous | reply 40 | April 27, 2024 7:20 AM
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