Top of the world - The peak of Mt. Everest

[packman]

[Cracklin Charlie]

1. Is that trash?

And dude, that is way up there!

[Buns_of_Fire]

2. An amazing view, if you ignore the landfill. nt

[former9thward]

3. It is not trash or a landfill.

It is Buddhist religious emblems put there by the Sherpa guides.

[Buns_of_Fire]

4. If that's the case, I apologize and withdraw my comment.

It still looks a little out of place, though.

[ananda]

5. I was hoping to see nature and wondering...

if there was any snow left. Guess not.

[former9thward]

9. Top of Everest is too high for snow to fall.

It is all ice and rock. I was once at the Everest base camp at 18,000 feet. Very little snow there. The highest I have gotten is the top of Mt. Kilimanjaro in Tanzania. That was 19,341 feet. No snow at top just a glacier field.

[ananda]

30. Thanks. I was thinking it would be like Kilamanjaro.

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[Treefrog]

8. There is a TON of trash all over Everest.

It’s unconscionable. I don’t mind the prayer flags; I have them at my house, but just google trash on Everest if you don’t believe me.

[Goodheart]

22. If it looks like trash then it's trash, religious or not.

I call it sacrilege.... AGAINST NATURE.

Sherpas, keep your rags to yourselves.

[former9thward]

24. Then please keep yourself out of Tibet and Nepal.

You are not wanted by anyone there.

[Goodheart]

31. Is that supposed to change my mind on the matter? Hint:

It doesn't.

[muriel_volestrangler]

6. It's nearly all prayer flags

It seems to be from 2013:

Link to tweet

Here's a 2012 view:



https://project-himalaya.com/dispatches/index.html

[Treefrog]

10. Great pic, but there IS trash all over Everest.

It’s a shame, and Chomolungma is not best pleased.

[Towlie]

7. Read how the Flat Earth Society correctly debunks claims that this is evidence the Earth is round.

 
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Even though the Earth is round you have to admit that they have this right:

https://forum.tfes.org/index.php?topic=10606.0

[dalton99a]

11. "Okay, next!"

[Treefrog]

13. No shit. Actually LOTS of shit all over that mountain. Literally.

The pictures are heartbreaking, and I’ve seen worse. Most people are unaware of what’s going on and the Nepalese authorities simply see it as a money-making thrill ride. They’ve issued over 400 climbing permits this year, so if a storm comes up during a major summit push - watch out.

[dalton99a]

15. Plus at least 295 dead bodies.

[Treefrog]

14. No shit. Actually LOTS of shit all over that mountain. Literally.

The pictures are heartbreaking, and I’ve seen worse. Most people are unaware of what’s going on and the Nepalese authorities simply see it as a money-making thrill ride. They’ve issued over 400 climbing permits this year, so if a storm comes up during a major summit push - watch out.

[JI7]

29. Nothing enjoyable about that

[malaise]

12. Stunning indeed

Thanks

[BGBD]

16. I cringe when I see those long ques.

Read "Into Thin Air" sometime if you haven't. Great information on Everest along with the story of the worst disaster on the Mountain, caused chiefly by the long lines and high pressure on guides to summitt.

[ironflange]

20. Great read

Also "No Way Down," about a similar disaster on K2.

[Goodheart]

23. I met Scott Fischer a couple of weeks before his fateful excursion.

Bright, handsome, friendly man. A real pity.

[Martin Eden]

28. Reminds me of my first hike up Angels Landing in Zion National Park

It was a conga line going up and down the final stretch on the narrow spine with chain links for a handrail and 1,000-foot dropoffs on either side.

Nor even remotely as challenging as Everest, but far too crowded.

[MineralMan]

17. Prayer Flags or Whatever. We Must Leave Our Mark.

So it seems, anyhow. It all amounts to "Kilroy Was Here." Religion is no excuse for littering in its name, it seems to me.

I can't count how many photos I've seen of someone I know standing in front of some tourist attraction somewhere on the planet. It seems like everyone needs to commemorate everything they do.

Recently, there was a local TV story about a woman and her daughter who were planning an ascent on Everest. The daughter had apparently recovered from some sort of cancer, so the two of them were making the trip - in celebration or something. Then, yesterday, I saw a story that said that COVID-19 had made its way to the Everest base camps. So, now there is an additional risk to such a trip.

There's nothing wrong with setting goals and achieving them, of course. What troubles me is that the person who does that knows full well that they accomplished their goal, but feels the need to make sure that everyone else also knows. For me, that somehow diminishes the achievement.

[marie999]

18. Using string theory which I know absolutely nothing but have read articles on,

couldn't we be living in a 2-dimensional universe but the information we perceive as 3-dimensional is possibly a hologram of the information on the surface of the universe? The great thing about quantum mechanics is no matter what you want to believe about the universe, you can probably find a quantum physicist that agrees with you.

[dalton99a]

19. It is impossible to fall off 2-D

and you can't fly from Des Moines to Vegas either

(Incidentally, string theory is junk - what physicists call unverifiable mathematical masturbation)

[marie999]

26. you can fly if you are a 3D hologram.

[Bucky]

21. But how many more are dying along the way now?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_who_died_climbing_Mount_Everest

Note how many more people are dying each year. In the last few years the fatalities are listed by age, nationality, cause of death, and what adventure vacation company they booked with.

[spanone]

25. It's a garbage heap.

[Towlie]

27. At least the mountaintop is still there. Here in the USA we do mountaintop removal mining.

 
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Mountaintop removal mining devastates the landscape, turning areas that should be lush with forests and wildlife into barren moonscapes. Huge machines, called "draglines," push rock and dirt into nearby streams and valleys, forever burying waterways. The massive dragline in the photo, which can weigh up to 12 million pounds and be as big as an entire city block, is dwarfed by the scale of this devastation.

[PCIntern]

32. Definitely a Flat Earth...

They would say that it’s the lens…