Everest: Home to over 200 bodies

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what were you doing over there?

I studied Arabic abroad in Alexandria in Summer 2010

We went to Sinai for like a week in July, kicked it off with a 12 hour bus ride from Alex to St. Catherine's Monastery

And then climbed the mountain at 1 AM, got up there within 3 hours. Man, a nikka get thirsty up there. Dudes selling water for 10 Egyptian pounds (roughly $2) and since water is so cheap in Egypt (you can get it for like 2 Egyptian pounds which is like 50 cents on a normal street)... I wasn't trying to fade until I got to a point where I had to pony up the bread :dead:

Then we climbed back down after sunrise and that was harder than climbing up
 

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I studied Arabic abroad in Alexandria in Summer 2010

We went to Sinai for like a week in July, kicked it off with a 12 hour bus ride from Alex to St. Catherine's Monastery

And then climbed the mountain at 1 AM, got up there within 3 hours. Man, a nikka get thirsty up there. Dudes selling water for 10 Egyptian pounds (roughly $2) and since water is so cheap in Egypt (you can get it for like 2 Egyptian pounds which is like 50 cents on a normal street)... I wasn't trying to fade until I got to a point where I had to pony up the bread :dead:

Then we climbed back down after sunrise and that was harder than climbing up
that must of been amazing

why was it harder climbing back down?
 

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that must of been amazing

why was it harder climbing back down?

I took a route on accident that was supposedly going to get me back down in 1000 steps :comeon:

Then when me and like 4 of the other dudes went, we were the only ones who took the route and it was the longest one to get back down :snoop: it had more obstacles and no clear trails

It took two hours which was shorter than the climb up but that's where I remember messing up my ankle slippin up

I'd love to visit it again, it was an epic view
 

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:what: Why don't they move the bodies??

I'm sure the families would like to have them at the funeral.

Is this real?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hannelore_Schmatz

"In 1984, police inspector Yogendra Bahadur Thapa and sherpa Ang Dorje fell to their deaths while trying to recover Schmatz’s body on a Nepalese police expedition"



It's hard enough getting up there, they have to depend on the sherpas to do everything... which is also why it's annoying when they make claims about youngest, oldest and all that. More European egocentrism.

Besides, the same 'leave em where they fell' shyt happens in underwater exploration.
 
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