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Here's a photo of the traffic jam on Everest. -- (link)

Posted by loosilu (aka loosilu2) May 29 '12, 07:58

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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2151418/The-traffic-jam-30-000-feet-Chilling-photo-shows-dozens-climbers-trying-reach-summit-Mount-Everest-died-stuck-bottleneck.html (www.dailymail.co.uk)

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Heyyyyy.... Deng Xiaoping died! -- nm - prayformojo May 29, 08:09 2
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  - "we were jitterbugging that very night. Course, folks were tougher back then." -- nm - Reagen May 29, 08:15
Curious, how do Sherpas survive where climbers are running out of O2? -- nm - oblique May 29, 08:05 10
- although no one can survive above 28000 feet. -- nm - Reagen May 29, 08:14 3
  - I thought people had summited without oxygen? -- nm - loosilu May 29, 08:34 2
    - They did --- just quickly. - Will Hunting May 29, 08:35 1
      - scary. -- nm - loosilu May 29, 08:36
- Much like east african distance runners, they're more accostomed to the conditions. -- nm - Will Hunting May 29, 08:09
- they just start doing carwheels back down the hill -- nm - prayformojo May 29, 08:08 1
  - "Last night I dreamed of your death." -- nm - Reagen May 29, 08:10
- their lungs are better accustomed to the lack of oxygen -- nm - Beaker May 29, 08:05
- because they've lived their entire lives at high altitutdes and are acclimated to the thinner atmosphere, I'd think -- nm - znufrii May 29, 08:05 1
  - this. They have higher lung capacity and a higher red blood cell count. -- nm - loosilu May 29, 08:12
That is insane. Eventually the Nepal government is going to have to restrict climbing permits -- nm - amoxy May 29, 08:00 13
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  - $10k per I do believe -- nm - Beaker May 29, 08:02 8
    - I thought it was $25K -- nm - amoxy May 29, 08:03 7
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        Do I hear $100k? -- nm - nubby May 29, 08:05
        
        isn't that the number most people pay? in total costs? not just their permit? -- nm - Andie May 29, 08:05 3
        
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        $10K might be the cost of the gov't permit, and the other costs are what the expedition company charges (for guides, supplies, oxygen etc) -- nm - Roger More May 29, 08:07 1
        
        right. -- nm - Don Homer May 29, 08:07
        
        CBC tracked all the related costs -- (link) - Beaker May 29, 08:04
- IIRC they already do. -- nm - Roger More May 29, 08:01 2
  - I read the opposite ... no limits. -- nm - loosilu May 29, 08:11 1
    - Looking into it, the limit seems to be "Do you have the money to pay for the permit". But in Nepal's defense, it's trying to rebuild itself after a - Roger More May 29, 08:18
Dear Daily Mail: There's a traffic jam 1000 feet above the summit? -- nm - Reagen May 29, 08:00

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