New low on Everest

[glassgowkiss]

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so besides blowjob serving rich bitch we have now low in the everest saga- a fist fight in camp 2. looks like sherpas want to work mafia style, you don't pay, you don't climb.

[JasonG]

Maybe, but there is probably a bit more to the story. Regardless, sounds like the Sherpas got way out of control.

 

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2316109/Jonathan-Griffith-British-photographer-injured-terrifying-fight-climbers-Sherpas-close-peak-Mount-Everest.html

[glassgowkiss]

Sherpas are becoming like cosa nostra very quick. I have a first hand account, by a polish climber, where sherpas just took down his tent (late October), while he was soloing without oxygen. Upon return to 7000m camp, he found no tent, no stove or sleeping bag.

[olyclimber]

I think this whole situation just shows how much a reality TV show would be great there. This sort of tension will bring great ratings.

[Pete_H]

Sherpas are becoming like cosa nostra very quick. I have a first hand account, by a polish climber, where sherpas just took down his tent (late October), while he was soloing without oxygen. Upon return to 7000m camp, he found no tent, no stove or sleeping bag.

 

Sounds more like petty theft. Given the level of poverty in Nepal, its not surprising.

[glassgowkiss]

Sherpas need to figure shit out. The only reason these jobs exist is because high altitude tourism. The moment this shit is happening a lot of it will just move to another location.

[ivan]

they can move mountains now?

[tvashtarkatena]

I'd say the Khumbu's Sherpas enjoy a cozy little negotiating position.

 

Sherpas have been a lively bunch since climbers first started hiring them.

 

Nothing new under the Himalayan sun.

Edited April 29, 2013 by tvashtarkatena

[glassgowkiss]

I'd say the Khumbu's Sherpas enjoy a cozy little negotiating position.

 

Sherpas have been a lively bunch since climbers first started hiring them.

 

Nothing new under the Himalayan sun.

 

Actually this is new. First of all Moro/Steck were not using the sherpas for support. So (according to some sources) sherpas were pissed, that these guys were making them less relevant. This is also first time someone was physically assaulted by sherpas in this manner. Yes, I know about verbal exchanges and such, but this crosses into a completely new territory.

[rob]

 

So (according to some sources) sherpas were pissed, that these guys were making them less relevant.

 

According to your friend in Bellingham?

[ivan]

in fairness, doesn't everybody hate the swiss?

[glassgowkiss]

 

So (according to some sources) sherpas were pissed, that these guys were making them less relevant.

 

According to your friend in Bellingham?

No according to someone, who summited 8x8000m peaks and is a correspondent to the Alpinist.

[glassgowkiss]

in fairness, doesn't everybody hate the swiss?

well, that doesn't explain Italian, doesn't it!

[tvashtarkatena]

Doesn't sound like anything a short chat with Mister Lee Enfield couldn't clear up.

[Pete_H]

Well this news just throws a real wrinkle in my Everest expedition plans!

[ivan]

in fairness, doesn't everybody hate the swiss?

well, that doesn't explain Italian, doesn't it!

eye-talians? fuck me, the swiss times 10!

 

maybe they were just very historically mindful sherpas then? it was the 68th anniversary of mussolini n' company getting lynched this weekend n' all...

 

anyhow, thought i saw steck was a swiss-tard?

Edited April 30, 2013 by ivan

[ivan]

reckon we can agree though, that on the Big List of Fucked Up Shit Going Down Right Now, this incident occupies a pretty lowly position

 

think the good people at the nepalese tourism board have a pretty clear grasp on the Golden Goose as well

 

when i win the lottery though, i'll be goddamn if these buddhites get my dinero though - i'll jet off to argentina instead, where nothing bad's ever happened - ever.

[denalidave]

Swiss chicks are hawte, specially the SBT - The Swedish Bikini Team that usually show up at my fav bivy w fresh cold brews & favor or three...

[AlpineK]

Are you sure the Swiss and Swedes are one and the same? Are all euro chicks hawte? Please elaborate or select the hawte region using the map below.

 

[img:center]http://www.worldatlas.com/webimage/countrys/europelarge.jpg[/img]

[CaleHoopes]

i love the fact that a thread on the everest sherpa brawl (later tonight on UFC) has turned into trying to figure out why swedish girls don't come from switzerland.

[ivan]

it doesn't matter what color your swedish girl is, they all smell like fish on the inside

[ivan]

also, i question the basic premise of the OP

 

last year i seem to recall a hundred people leaving a dude to die rather than fuck up their summit bid - ain't that more fucked than the local gentry (perhaps wrongly) defending their rice-bowl?

[tvashtarkatena]

If Steck wasn't so Swedish he would have hired a couple of the top locals as 'guides'. It's not like he doesn't have the cash. Problem solved.

[glassgowkiss]

First hand account: http://www.explorersweb.com/kellogg7

[glassgowkiss]

i love the fact that a thread on the everest sherpa brawl (later tonight on UFC) has turned into trying to figure out why swedish girls don't come from switzerland.

well, go ask fox "news", as they have hard time figuring out, why Czech Republic is not muslim.