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majid_sabet
Nov 19, 2006, 6:34 AM
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Last week 4 French climber went missing on a 19500 feet peak and no words from them, following with another 3 European and 3 sherpas on Ama Dablan on Nov14.Total of 10 climbers lost their lives in Himalayas in the
past seven days.
http://img224.imageshack.us/my.php?image=amadbn1dw5.jpg
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dynoho
Nov 19, 2006, 7:55 AM
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Majid,
I noticed you copyrighted that photo. It is very nice. Out of curiosity, did you take the picture or purchase it?
Edited: More importantly, my condolences to those and theirs who are missing.
(This post was edited by dynoho on Nov 19, 2006, 8:19 AM)
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majid_sabet
Nov 19, 2006, 5:31 PM
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I was climbing on the opposite two peaks near Ama Dablan,
http://img53.imageshack.us/img53/8977/ilpkia6.jpg
http://img62.imageshack.us/img62/5730/ilpakiq8.jpg
(This post was edited by majid_sabet on Nov 20, 2006, 6:28 AM)
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dynoho
Nov 19, 2006, 5:44 PM
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Narley.
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majid_sabet
Nov 21, 2006, 6:29 AM
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PARIS: Rescuers searching for four missing French mountain climbers found their camp in an area of the Nepalese Himalayas that was recently hit by an avalanche, the French Foreign Ministry said Monday.
The climbers have been missing since mid-October, when they were trying to scale the 5,896-meter (19,340-foot) Mount Paldor, located about 80 kilometers (50 miles) north of the Nepalese capital of Katmandu.
On Monday, the team found a camp that had been used by the lost climbers "at the foot of a zone that was hit by a massive avalanche," France's Foreign Ministry said in a statement.
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skinner
Nov 23, 2006, 7:40 PM
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I was reading dispatches from Berg Adventures Ama Dablam 2006 Expedition.
http://www.bergadventures.com/...106/ama_1106_17.html
It starts with..
On Ama Dablam this year, the Dablam, a hanging glacier which is known to be very stable and is located just above Camp III, this year for the first time in approximately 40 years or certainly since any locals can remember from Pangboche, the Dablam has shifted and a great deal of material released earlier in the week before us coming up here. So with that in mind our plan today was to explore the mountain, learn the route and be very safe. There has been some activity with the Dablam since it’s initial release and there is a great deal of avalanche debris on a ledge that has been used in the past for Camp III....
There are more references and information in subsequent dispatches, however in the end they decided not to go for the summit due to the currant conditions.
F*cking Global warming eh?
-Kevin
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majid_sabet
Nov 25, 2006, 6:05 PM
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Kevin
I agree with you 100%, also this just came today ( Sounds like they said one thing and they tried to climb some thing else avoiding permit fees, most locals are depended to fees to support their families, was this worth it !!!).
KATHMANDU: The deaths of four French climbers who crossed illegally from Nepal to China to attempt a 7,200 metre (23,760 foot) summit have thrown the spotlight on a high-risk mountaineering counter-culture.
Every year hundreds of young foreign adventurers circumvent Asian bureaucracy and huge fees to notch up experience in the so-called greater ranges whose spectacular summits have increasingly lured Westerners.
"I object to paying thousands of dollars, tens of thousands of dollars. I could never afford it," said a European climber, who said he has scaled peaks from 7,000 to more than 8,000 metres in Nepal, Pakistan and India and never paid for a permit.
(This post was edited by majid_sabet on Nov 26, 2006, 6:43 PM)
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