MrDoolittle

Now I know you know nothing about this topic--but have strong opinions. Peak fees have gone up for Nepal / Pakistan becuase those governments want cash directly to their coffers. If there were no guided expeditions, then peaks fees would still have risen becuase the governments still want cash. The goverments of Pakistan and Nepal have increased peak fees because the people who want to climb these peaks can afford to pay peak fees. If rich people didn't infect this part of the world with their greed for trophies, there wouldn't be peak fees. And for all of you that "know what you're talking about, cuz' you've been there", would it be possible for me to get one of your T-shirts? Men's medium?

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Link Sorry, but I see no reason for Arnold to want to play grab-ass with this crone. Notice the especially revolting double-crusted nostrils. Verdict: Innocent.

Iraqi clerics are denouncing Monday's assasination, and muslims around the world see the U.S. as complicit in the act. They are swearing revenge. So much for global security.

Bwana shoots white rhino so that he can have a trophy. Climber is led to summit of 8000m peak so that he can have a trophy. Climbers are defiling these mountains with their presence. Clients stop being able to make decisions above 8000m, and trust in their guides, who also lose the ability to make decisions above 8000m. Climbing expeditions have created and perpetuate the peak fees that prevent others from climbing Alpine Style. If Dr. Lawyer wasn't throwing out all the coin, there would be no peak fees. Guiding is dumb anyways. If you want to start a bussiness, buy a falafel cart. We could use one of those. Why turn something fun into work? Getting paid to coil a rope sucks after a while.

Paying to climb big peaks is a lot like big game hunting. Bwana(client) pays darkie(sherpa) to carry crap(food/gear/satellite phone/laptop/espresso machine)into middle of nowhere(Baltoro) so that Bwana can shoot a zebra(climb an 8000m peak)and hang it's head on the wall(take pictures for corner office back at investment firm). Paying a guide service so that you can inflate your ego isn't climbing. And guiding this kind of client is the same as driving the jeep while they shoot at a white rhino. And clients do not belong at 8000m, too much can go wrong, too much is out of control to begin with, and guides can do little to fix things if shit hits the fan.

Clients pay fees, get sick, go home, guides and company owners try technical route on peak, or sneak off to another local peak, after client has paid their way to asia. SCAM. Has happened all the time, is happening all the time, will continue to happen all the time. And asking someone to pay $60,000 so that you can drag them to the summit of an 8000m peak is irresponsible. Too dangerous. Criminal. What would Alex Lowe have done?

I'm pretty sure that it was not OK for Isreal, a client state of the US, to blow up a blind man in a wheelchair with missles in the name of the "War on Terror". Have you seen the guy? His face alone is enough of a rallying point for the Islamic world to get behind in a jihad against the west. 100,000-200,000 Palestinians in the street yesterday, swearing revenge against Isreal and the US. And if you don't know how it works over there, they have a MORAL DUTY to exact revenge against those they see as having wronged them, and that duty passes from father to son, etc. They are HONOR BOUND. Behold! The new messiah for the Islamic cause. The guy gets blown up while leaving a mosque! He looked like a fucking angel... We're totally fucked. .. And, the DOW has lost 6% since Feb., and took a big hit yesterday after this guy gets blown to pieces, which tells me we are LOSING the "War on Terror", IMHO. Isreal's action yesterday cost those invested in the stock market BILLIONS. Why bomb infrastructure or kill civilians when you can bomb the ECONOMY? Ariel Sharon is a war criminal, and should be tried and executed upon a verdict of guilt. And when the Palestinians lose their shit over this, don't be surprised if Sharon swoops in and obliterates Gaza and the West Bank.

Yeah. Wanna be somewhere else other than with Dr. Lawyer and his new boots halfway up Der Baker Horne.

Guide services are a fucking scam anyways. $250 a day? For what? So that some wannna be climber can glom onto another wannabe, who exploits the glommer to get payed to go climbing? $60,000 grand, and a guide service will drag your carcass up some 8000m peak, while the owner takes a run at another peak using the permit that you bought for them? It's a SCAM.

Can I get a T-Shirt? BTW, I couldn't care less what she's climbed, I am only pointing out what I saw, take it for what it's worth. Good for her that she can find people willing to give her their money so that she can climb all over the world.

Leading WI1 in full goretex while your partner video tapes you is not up to my standards. And jugging fixed lines that a shepra or another climber placed the day before is not climbing, it's jugging fixed lines. Let me know when she actually climbs an 8000m peak, instead of jugging fixed lines set by sherpas or other climbers to the summit of an 8000m peak.

She has an image to SELL to clients. Don't ever forget that her climbing aspirations are governed by her financial aspirations, and vis a versa. And since Scott "You're crusin' or you're bummin'" Fischer is currently perma-bummin' above 8000m, she's got to be the Stud that keeps the big coin headed in the direction of MM.

Waging all out Peace "For the first time, Hamas also threatened the United States, saying America's backing of Israel made the assassination possible. "All the Muslims of the world will be honored to join in on the retaliation for this crime," Hamas said in a statement. In the past, Hamas leaders have insisted their struggle is against Israel and that they would not get involved in causes by militant Muslims in other parts of the world. Monday's statement suggested that Hamas might seek outside help in carrying out revenge attacks, since its capabilities have been limited by Israeli military strikes."

I saw this chick leading out from the end of the trail at the base of Cascade Falls at two o'clock in the afternoon, dressed head-to-toe in goretex, and LEADING WI1, while her partner video-taped her. I don't give a flying fuck how many "8000m" peakes she' bought her way up, the woman I observed was a GAPER. And I've seen a docu- about her climbing some high snow heap, and jugging fixed lines in the process, past WI2 or so ground. The point is, you don't have to be a good climber to climb 8000m peaks. You need to be able to SLOG with a bag over your head, and not fall down, and jug fixed ropes.

Wasn't she the chick at the base of Cascade Falls, fully gore-texed, leading the WI1, and being video taped at the same time, at two in the afternoon in January? Wicked hard-core, IMHO.

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Hilary, '08

He seems pretty good, but doesn't he have a bit of the "psycho" problem, or did his Repub rivals just paint him that way? "STEVIE!! STEVIE!!!"

Minx: You are wrong. I lived in the woods, climbing in secret, until I developed the skills that I needed. I didn't need any shorts-over-polypro-pack-too-big-too-much-stuff-gaiters-falling-down tribal chieftan to clue me in. And I'm not slamming anyone, all I'm saying that the last thing the world needs is another guide service, bringing more people into the mountains. They do not deserve to be there until they have earned the right. You can't buy the priviledge.

During gay sex, gay people have sex with other gay people. In bouldering, gay people exploit their elevated socio-economic status and fight off the boredom of affluence by clinging to boulders in a safe environment.

Who's Luke? And can I get one of his T-Shirts?

The hardest moves are only 5.8.

Alpine Climbing (and both words are ALWAYS capitalized, like "God") is like living off the land and hunting to survive. bouldering is like shooting buffalo from a train. LAME.

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