oopps!!

[Edited by SJ_Skyline - 6/3/2003 1:08:12 PM]

 

Saves me the trip and not sure if this is a S.I.A.L moment but anyway..

http://www.panoramas.dk/fullscreen2/full22.html

 

It wont work for me, and I was hoping it would give me an idea as to what I can expect at the weekend when I go for my Sunday stroll

 

Thats good.

Has anyone on here made the climb?

Si

 

I flew past it once-quite a sight!

Les

 

Incredible view

 

I have climbed one of the little ones opposite Everest (Kala Patar) - I can imagine which it probably is in that cool image from the summit but need to check a map.

By the way little in this case = 18,000ft (Everest is 29000 ft I think)

This is the view across to Everest (just stolen this piccy off the web - mine are at home!)


[Edited by Boost II - 6/3/2003 3:33:44 PM]

 

Whole Everest thing is getting pretty sad IMHO with base camp looking like Oxford street on a Saturday afternoon and guides offering peasants like me who have very little mountaineering experience, the chance to get to the summit by leading you up there by hand.....

Saw the news report that said that at one point there were 100 people in a line and if one had fallen then ...

But then again the Nepalese government gets 50,000 dollars for every group climb ..... maybe that explains it

Wonder when the McDonalds will be opening on the summit ?

 

I'm gonna climb Everest at some point. It is becoming a little sad to see that there are so many people doing it now, but still, it's the highest mountain and so it's got to be attempted

Andy.

 

Anyone know what's needed to create one of these 360° photos?

 

Whats the climb like?

Is it all Rock faces or steep edges?

Si

 

Apparently the climb is pretty tough , so think...sturdy boots or trainers and deffo gloves and scarf.
But seriously , isn't the death rate about 1 in 5 of those who reach the summit?

 

yeah it's 1 in 5 for no oxygen climbs. Apparently it's too dangerous to take the corpses down so they wrap em in their sleeping bag and cover them with snow.

K2 is the really dangerous one... So i'm told.

 

A complete how to climb is here
http://www.observer.co.uk/magazine/s...925457,00.html

 

i was just curious if its all ropes and pics, or just a steep walk if you get me.

Si

 

Give it 15 years and you'll be able to take a train/cable car to the top, just like snowdon

Reminds me of a roger waters song

Miraculous you call it babe
You ain't seen nothing yet
They've got Pepsi in the Andes
McDonalds in Tibet
Yosemite's been turned into
A golf course for the Japs
The Dead Sea is alive with rap
Between the Tigris and Euphrates
There's a leisure centre now
They've got all kinds of sports
They've got Bermuda shorts
They had sex in Pennsylvania
A Brazilian grew a tree
A doctor in Manhattan
Saved a dying man for free
It's a miracle
Another Miracle
By the grace of God Almighty
And the pressures of the marketplace
The human race has civilized itself
It's a miracle
We've got warehouses of butter
We've got oceans of wine
We've got famine when we need it
Got designer crime
We've got Mercedes
We've got Porsche
Ferrari and Rolls Royce
We've got choice
She said meet me
In the Garden of Gethsemene my dear
The Lord said Peter I can see
Your house from here
An honest family man
Finally reaped what he had sown
A farmer in Ohio has just repaid a loan
It's a miracle
By the grace of God Almighty
And the pressures of the marketplace
The human race has civilized itself
It's a miracle
We cower in our shelters
With our hands over our ears
Lloyd-Webber's awful stuff
Runs for years and years and years
An earthquake hits the theatre
But the operetta lingers
Then the piano lid comes down
And breaks his f**king fingers
It's a miracle

 

I think there is something like 120 corpses up on the South Col and it is too cold for them to ever rot away. This is where you have to have your final camp before going up to the top.

Not unlike some camp sites in the North of England by the sounds of it