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Hillary Step on Everest to get ladder
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May 28, 2013 at 1:47 pm #1303493
What else is there to say??? :)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/may/27/mount-everest-ladder-hillary-stepMay 28, 2013 at 2:04 pm #1990479I rather liked the solar powered escalator comment on Neptune Mountaineering's FB post. It's all a bit farcical, the Nepalese are destroying their best-known asset for the sake of filthy lucre.
May 28, 2013 at 2:10 pm #1990483Mochachino's on the summit for all! :)
May 28, 2013 at 3:24 pm #1990501…and now you know whose product fuels my posts…
May 28, 2013 at 3:39 pm #1990507So if someone skips the queue a fight may start.
May 28, 2013 at 4:24 pm #1990533I think they should build a tram so everyone can get to the top. It isn't right to deprive the summit to those who could not otherwise get to it.
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May 28, 2013 at 4:31 pm #1990536@ Mags – Which reminds me, at what temperature would yak's milk boil atop Everest to make that mochachino?
@ Stephen – I can just see it, every country would be clamouring for Most Favoured Nation status, to have their team on the first six rungs of the ladder. Forget frequent flier programs, this would be the one to aspire to… Perhaps we should send the entire TSA over there to police it :-)
May 28, 2013 at 4:54 pm #1990548Stuart
I can just picture it, a fully body scan as punters leave base camp and no liquids under 100ml.
May 29, 2013 at 9:46 am #1990809I guess the ice fall has been laddered every season for decades.Sure makes it quicker to get through it.Everest is hardly a clean climb.More like a zoo of line of least resistance yupppy sloggers. : – )
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