A snowstorm has pinned down climbers on the Tibetan side of Mount Everest. Tents were damaged just below the northern slope's base camp with casualties reported and rescue roads initially blocked.
Didier Delsalle (born May 6, 1957, in Aix-en-Provence, France) is a former fighter pilot and helicopter test pilot. On May 14, 2005, he became the first (and only) person to land a helicopter, the Eurocopter AS350 Squirrel, on the 8,848 m (29,030 ft) summit of Mount Everest.[1]
Watched 14 Peaks last week and when they got to Mount Everest, there was a literal line of like 100+ people queued all the way up to the top of the mountain.
Amazing that there are even 1000 people climbing it at the same time. I shudder to think what the once pristine mountainside used to look like vs now.
It looks like a garbage trail littered with corpses. https://allthatsinteresting.com/mount-everest-bodies
The world’s largest monument to vanity.
Better living through technology.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Didier_Delsalle
That’s Dubai
larges mummification event in recent time.
Future archeologists will welcome our preserved samples of DNA the same way we did Ötzi the Iceman.
and POOP.
Watched 14 Peaks last week and when they got to Mount Everest, there was a literal line of like 100+ people queued all the way up to the top of the mountain.
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A lot are trekkers rather than climbers if that helps. Their environmental footprint is much smaller.
Shout out to Star Trek fans for their small environmental footprint