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web_slave
Nov 18, 2004, 7:36 PM
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This is a sad and sickening.
Read about the guy who climbed Everest 6 times, and beat up his Sherpa wife in Base Camp. Read about clients fearing for their lives, oxygen stashes being robbed, Sherpas demanding money in high camps, porn in mess tents, a 15 years old Sherpani slapped by her expedition leader - and a whole bunch of climbers looking the other way.
Connecticut George
The full story is quite a read, but you do have to register.
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neurostar
Nov 18, 2004, 9:41 PM
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Yea. that is an interesting read. Amazing what some people will do.
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sandbag
Nov 18, 2004, 9:51 PM
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So why didnt anyone step up and let the Ahole try to take a swing at them? Sure its another country, he romanian, not nepalese, and deserves awhole lotta ass kicking. it a shame that no one would do anything, granted we only have the one side of the story. I personally would ask George to 'dance' or give him lessons if he wasnt willing to try..... :roll:
i have zero tolerance for spousal abuse, esp men vs women.
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slavetogravity
Nov 18, 2004, 9:56 PM
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Dang! My dream of getting the first Drunken-wife-beating-porn-addict accent of Everest has been dashed.
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sandbag
Nov 18, 2004, 9:58 PM
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In reply to: Dang! My dream of getting the first Drunken-wife-beating-porn-addict accent of Everest has been dashed.
yes, its hard to accept that dreams do die eventually STG
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braaaaaaaadley
Nov 18, 2004, 10:13 PM
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I think something should be done about this. People pay all of this money for access to the mtn. and then they have to put up with this crap as well. I wonder if the clients that are supposed to venture out with "george" next year are aware of this article...
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johnson6102002
Nov 18, 2004, 10:20 PM
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In reply to: In reply to: Dang! My dream of getting the first Drunken-wife-beating-porn-addict accent of Everest has been dashed. yes, its hard to accept that dreams do die eventually STG ;)
this was going to be one of my few acheivable dreams to and this ass ruined it..... but seriously something should be ddone about these actions
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gds
Nov 18, 2004, 11:20 PM
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Interesting! There were hints of this in the original postings but I didn't pick up anything to this extreme degree.
I know three of the folks on the CT team - two in passing and one quite well as we climbed together for a couple of seasons. I think highly of all of them not only as climbers but as solid, nice people. So, I can only think that deprivations and the call of the summit are pretty powerfull changers of personality-at least in the short term.
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anykineclimb
Nov 19, 2004, 5:42 AM
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In reply to: There are 100s of other companies from which to choose
Sadly, this is true
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dynosore
Dec 9, 2004, 7:40 PM
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Anywhere a bunch of people gather, their problems will follow. I will be content with climbing remote, little known peaks for the most part. Then again, I don't want to be ablle to spray about how I climbed Everest...
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crimpme
Dec 10, 2004, 2:36 PM
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Gah - brain trying to jump out of my head. I have trouble placing faith in a story/article so rambling and incoherent.
Well, while I can't seem to find the Courant article referenced, I was able to find an editorial (two actually) about it.
http://www.ctnow.com/...ov28,0,7828979.story
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taualum23
Dec 10, 2004, 2:41 PM
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The article referenced is the November 14, 2004 "The sunday Magazine of the Hartofrd COurant"
I actually have it one my desk. A co-worker gave it to me because I like "that climbing and mountain stuff" but he had never read it. Pretty interesting. With all of the he-said she said, I would love to have been a fly on the wall to hear what really happened. Altogether, though, bad news all around.
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