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[url= http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/8633058.stm ]Rubbish Tip?[/url]
Sherpas = Small
Dead climbers (particularly the one pictured) = Large
Plus lots of rubbish up there. That's a tough job, but I applaud them.
Shame the climbers can't take everything back down with them as they go.
dangerous, dangerous task.
plenty of 'oh everest is a rubbish tip' comments banded about but i beleive the lower slopes have been cleared up considerably.
High altitude stuff is a bit trickier though.
also (grimly) read that it takes some considerable effort to chip a body out of the snow and ice once its been there for a while, god knows how they'd carry it down.
grim.
The team expects to remove 3,000kg of old tents, ropes, oxygen cylinders, food packaging and camping stoves from the mountain.They will also bring back the bodies of climbers who have perished while attempting to climb Everest.
"I have seen three dead bodies laying on the trail. But we know that there is another dead body also which we heard about a long time ago," says Namgyal.
I think that, when I go for a ride I should make sure to be carrying a rubbish bag in which to carry out my own and any other rubbish that I may come across.
Well done them. Are there similar projects to remove the bodies from the North Face of Snowdon?
god knows how they'd carry it down.
Cut it up into small pieces?
[url= http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/gloucestershire/8633012.stm ]Sherpas required in Bristol[/url]
god knows how they'd carry it down.
Tries and fails to find a still of Homer Simpson sledging down a mountain using the dead body of another climber.
if you read up a bit (which i have been doing recently) you hear how hard it is to get a tired person down, someone standing on their own two feet.
god only knows how much harder it would be to carry a 100kg + ice person down.
current trend is to tip them off the edge i beleive and let them fall to the many inaccessible valleys. i wonder if they will do this now...
Truly commendable. It kind of encompasses what and who the Sherpas are. I have no doubt of their outstanding amount of experience with the mountain but even with 20 experienced sherpas accidents can and do happen.
I truly hope the expedition is a successful and safe one.
Most of all I hope that future climbers see this for what it is; Honourbale people doing what they can for something they hold dear. Not a bunch of muppets that will clean up after were home safe and sound.
What they need is a really really long chute like builders have on scaffolding. Then you could just walk up there slinging stuff in as you go. It could go all the way down to where they can get trucks in and they can take it to landfill.