Damn Freaking Best Picture EVER

[i_like_sun]

 

 

 

 

 

I know its the highly overused and abused Everest, but shit, why WOULDN'T you want to go here????

 

There is just something crazy and powerful about this place......... I personally can fully understand why so many have risked everything on this mountain. Not saying I'm will to die for ANY mountain, but I can understand the sickness...

 

[G-spotter]

but shit, why WOULDN'T you want to go here????

 

 

[catbirdseat]

Dru, you have the ability to rain on any parade.

[i_like_sun]

Ok, well maybe Gasherbrum then......

[AlpineK]

Someday folks will pay to go look at all the human trash up there, and if they slip the guide a few extra bucks they'll get to take some home to put on the wall.

[i_like_sun]

Hell yes. Dude I would jump on one of the clean up expeditions in a heartbeat!

[astrov]

http://www.bellsfromeverest.com/ordering.html

 

The bells turned from canisters were being offered in the mountain gear catalog year before last for something like 10 grand!!!

 

 

[i_like_sun]

Ten grand??? No way.....

 

 

[Dechristo]

I'd hit dat

[EWolfe]

dibs

[wfinley]

I haven't been on the Big E but last year we climbed a couple smaller trekking peaks. Topping out on a peak that's 19,000' and turning around to see another peak looming 10,000' higher is pretty intense.

[i_like_sun]

Topping out on a peak that's 19,000' and turning around to see another peak looming 10,000' higher is pretty intense.

 

 

 

Yeah, I want to go to the Everest region just to see what you desrcibed! I (most people) simply don't have an sort of mental schema for those kinds of scales. The biggest thing I've ever seen in person would be Mt. Whitney or Mt. Rainier......

 

I'm not sure I'd actually even want to climb Everest (climbing something less popular yes), but just to see it would be amazing.

[reddirt]

dibs

[tvashtarkatena]

What I enjoyed most about my hike to Kala Patar was gingerly hopscotching through an alpine bog mined with soggy little piles of human excrement at Gorak Shep. I think it was right about then that my intestinal parasites were making their presence known.

[Weekend_Climberz]

Not to knock it or anything, but I can think of a couple of other places besides the crowds on the Big-E:

 

 

[G-spotter]

“Climbing K2 or floating the Grand Canyon in an inner tube. There are some things one would rather have done than do.” Ed Abbey

[wfinley]

Not to knock it or anything, but I can think of a couple of other places besides the crowds on the Big-E:

 

 

I can't speak from experience but I doubt that K2 basecamp is much cleaner than Everest. At least there has been a dedicated effort from the Nepali government in recent years to clean up the Khumbu valley. When a region depends on tourism to survive it is only a matter of time before the locals figure out that trash hurts their economy.

 

People bring trash and the only reason we don't deal with trash issues on the local level (on the scale of what you see in the third world) is because we have money and can afford to enforce violations.

[i_like_sun]

Not to knock it or anything, but I can think of a couple of other places besides the crowds on the Big-E:

 

 

 

 

Yep, that too. Why not go to ALL these places???

[Weekend_Climberz]

Not to knock it or anything, but I can think of a couple of other places besides the crowds on the Big-E:

 

 

I can't speak from experience but I doubt that K2 basecamp is much cleaner than Everest. At least there has been a dedicated effort from the Nepali government in recent years to clean up the Khumbu valley. When a region depends on tourism to survive it is only a matter of time before the locals figure out that trash hurts their economy.

 

People bring trash and the only reason we don't deal with trash issues on the local level (on the scale of what you see in the third world) is because we have money and can afford to enforce violations.

 

But the Pakistani government provides incentive for cleaning up after yourselves in the form of a $5000 deposit. If you leave your crap up there, you don't get it back :tup:

[archenemy]

Well when those lazy gov't assholes are up there IDing your trash, why don't they pick some of it up?

[EWolfe]

dibs

 

Got me, Reddirt!

[wfinley]

But the Pakistani government provides incentive for cleaning up after yourselves in the form of a $5000 deposit. If you leave your crap up there, you don't get it back :tup:

Garbage deposit for Everest is $4000; $3000 for all other 8000m peaks. Garbage deposit for trekking peaks is $250. And they do check it; although not as closely as one would hope. It's all who your trekking agent is and who takes who out to dinner in Katmandu.

 

However.. to put it in perspective - the garbage issue is minimal when compared to the issue of over development.

[chris]

There's also a great program paying Sherpa staffs for bringing down loads of trash from the high camps. I'm told that the famous pictures - like what Dru showed above - don't reflect the current view.

 

Edit: I just broke my own ban. Goddamnit.

Edited May 8, 2007 by chris

[sk]

There's also a great program paying Sherpa staffs for bringing down loads of trash from the high camps. I'm told that the famous pictures - like what Dru showed above - don't reflect the current view.

 

Edit: I just broke my own ban. Goddamnit.

 

i don't really want to summit, but i would like to trek around and maybe get involved in helping haul some of the trash off the mountain.

[i_like_sun]

I'm down.