More Global Hot Air!
Mount Everest is becoming increasingly dangerous to climb because global warming is melting glacier ice along its slopes, according to a Nepalese Sherpa who has conquered the world’s highest summit 20 times.
Gosh! It must be getting tough up there, even the world’s most experienced climbers are blanching at the task ahead of them…..
But hark! What is this?
“Bonita Norris, a 22-year-old media-studies graduate”
Media studies eh? Not someone given to undertaking the most difficult of challenges then…..
“…recently became the youngest British woman ever to conquer Everest despite admitting she had never even climbed Mount Snowdon, the tallest mountain in Wales, before setting her sights on the world’s highest summit.”
*sighs*.
So your average untrained rambler can still amble up its slopes then?
No need to panic yet.
Tip of the Raccoon tail to the sharp eyed Joe Public.
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May 27, 2010 at 17:29 -
If these Sherpa’s feel so strongly about the Eco world and climate change, I would say to them stop fkg climbing up the mountain, it is full of rubbish and shit that you guys have left up there, it is not a tip and you are not stig.
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May 27, 2010 at 17:40 -
Did you ever make it to the top of Everton Brow?
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May 27, 2010 at 17:51 -
Warble Gloaming just had to be in there somewhere.
Stubbed my toe this morning, bloody warble gloaming.
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May 27, 2010 at 19:00 -
And a 13 year old climbed it a couple of days ago..
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May 27, 2010 at 22:01 -
I’ve got Everest on my itinerary for 2020. It could be an afternoon ramble by then, so it’s a good job I waited.
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May 27, 2010 at 22:19 -
The reason Everest is easier to climb, even for 13 year olds and media study students, is because of all the previous climbers who have mapped out the route and the commercial interests who have provided base camps with hot and cold running water. So it really is the same as climbing Ben Nevis now a days.
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May 28, 2010 at 08:31 -
@ SadButMadLad
“So it really is the same as climbing Ben Nevis now a days.”
That strikes me as a profoundly ignorant statement…
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