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pinktricam
May 28, 2006, 7:02 PM
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On a lighter note, some more news from Everest...
In reply to: Naked on Everest: a peek on the peak? (AP) Updated: 2006-05-28 14:02 The head of the Nepal Mountaineering Association urged the government Saturday to take action against a sherpa who reportedly stripped on top of Mount Everest. The Himalayan Times had reported Friday that the Nepali climbing guide, whose name it gave as Lakpa Tharke, stood naked for three minutes in freezing conditions on the 29,035-foot summit of the world's highest peak. If confirmed, he would be the first person known to have stripped atop Everest, considered by Nepali Buddhists as a god. Ang Tshering Sherpa, head of Nepal's top mountaineering body, said he could not confirm that the incident had happened. "But if he did it, it is very shocking because Sagarmatha is the goddess mother," he said, using the mountain's Nepali name. "The government must enforce strict ethics for climbing." Authorities have yet to comment. But the climb's organizers seemed happy enough with Lakpa Thaeke's strip. "We are planning to file his extraordinary feat for the Guinness Book of World Records," the paper quoted an official of the hiking group that employs Tharke as saying. At least 1,345 people have climbed Everest since 1953 from either the Nepali or Tibetan side. |
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coolklimber
May 28, 2006, 7:11 PM
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Fun while it lasted:), who will be the first european to do that?
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sungam
May 28, 2006, 8:32 PM
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How did he not die?
Do you think he got frostbite on his... you know... purple headed yogert squirter?
Something tells me he aint going home to his wife for the usual celabratory rumpy-pumpy...
-Magnus
Was that within the tos?
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j_ung
May 28, 2006, 9:04 PM
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"The government must enforce strict ethics for climbing."
:shock:
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skinner
May 28, 2006, 9:23 PM
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Never mind everything else that is going on, people being left to die, climbers stepping over stricken climbers.. we've got a damn streaker on the summit!
SOMETHING HAS TO BE DONE!
"The government must enforce strict ethics for climbing."
:roll:
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markguycan
May 28, 2006, 10:18 PM
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I stripped down on Mt Hood, didn't get anything froze off; 'course thats less than half Mt Everest...
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skiclimb
May 28, 2006, 10:42 PM
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Eh whatever.. Now, who's up for sex on the summit? Surely the goddess mother of the earth couldn't find that improper?
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pinktricam
May 28, 2006, 11:28 PM
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It certainly gives the Vulgarians a run for their money.
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andrewph
May 28, 2006, 11:34 PM
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In reply to: purple headed yogert squirter
What a delightful image.
A
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ratmnerd
May 29, 2006, 2:09 AM
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In reply to: I stripped down on Mt Hood, didn't get anything froze off; 'course thats less than half Mt Everest...
well then you should do it twice, so then then total height adds up to everest's.
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muslmutt
May 29, 2006, 8:01 PM
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Serious shrinkage into the the negitive lenghts may have prevented frostbite.
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veganboyjosh
May 29, 2006, 8:24 PM
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In reply to: I stripped down on Mt Hood, didn't get anything froze off; 'course thats less than half Mt Everest...
yeah, mine's less than half of everest, too.
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svilnit
May 31, 2006, 12:01 PM
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markguycan wrote:
I stripped down on Mt Hood, didn't get anything froze off; 'course thats less than half Mt Everest...
yeah, mine's less than half of everest, too.
:lol: Now that is funny...
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heiko
May 31, 2006, 12:36 PM
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In reply to: In reply to: I stripped down on Mt Hood, didn't get anything froze off; 'course thats less than half Mt Everest... yeah, mine's less than half of everest, too.
:lol: :lol: :lol:
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