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Playinghardball

(11,665 posts) Sat Aug 30, 2014, 06:37 PM Aug 2014

Mt. Everest

I'm really glad that I saw this ... now I can scratch climbing Mt. Everest off of my bucket list....

KEEP AN EYE ON THE ELEVATION, LEFT SIDE OF YOUR COMPUTER SCREEN,
AND THEN MOVE MOUSE AT THE END, TO SEE EVERYTHING.

This is amazing . . . it's almost like being there and there's a 360 degree view from the top!

http://everestavalanchetragedy.com/mt-everest-journey.html

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Mt. Everest (Original Post) Playinghardball Aug 2014 OP

That's as close to climbing ANY mountain Suich Aug 2014 #1

That's as close as I'd get to climbing any mountain that requires technical climbing skills... Silent3 Sep 2014 #8

What an amazing video! It took my breath away, almost literally! CaliforniaPeggy Aug 2014 #2

Hey Peg.... Playinghardball Aug 2014 #3

I'm doing OK, thanks... CaliforniaPeggy Aug 2014 #4

Thanks for posting. cwydro Sep 2014 #5

Yeah, I was thinking where's all the oxygen tanks? RiffRandell Sep 2014 #6

Lots of great books out there. cwydro Sep 2014 #7

Yep. RiffRandell Sep 2014 #10

Du rec. nt cwydro Sep 2014 #9

Drones are good for something. Wonderful experience. nt Fla Dem Sep 2014 #11

Suich

(10,642 posts)

1. That's as close to climbing ANY mountain

Reply to Playinghardball (Original post)

Sat Aug 30, 2014, 06:56 PM

Aug 2014

I'm going to get!

Cool site!

Silent3

(15,200 posts)

8. That's as close as I'd get to climbing any mountain that requires technical climbing skills...

Reply to Suich (Reply #1)

Mon Sep 1, 2014, 08:47 PM

Sep 2014

...oxygen tanks, and braving horrendous weather.

But I'm fine with good-weather climbing of some of the much smaller local mountains around here in NH, like Mount Monadnock (climbed that 5 times this year) and Mount Washington (once this year).

CaliforniaPeggy

(149,583 posts)

2. What an amazing video! It took my breath away, almost literally!

Reply to Playinghardball (Original post)

Sat Aug 30, 2014, 09:07 PM

Aug 2014

Thank you, my dear Playinghardball!

Playinghardball

(11,665 posts)

3. Hey Peg....

Reply to CaliforniaPeggy (Reply #2)

Sun Aug 31, 2014, 04:13 PM

Aug 2014

How have you been doin'?

CaliforniaPeggy

(149,583 posts)

4. I'm doing OK, thanks...

Reply to Playinghardball (Reply #3)

Sun Aug 31, 2014, 04:32 PM

Aug 2014

PT for my left shoulder is going on now, and I think it will help strengthen me.

Thanks for asking!

cwydro

(51,308 posts)

5. Thanks for posting.

Reply to Playinghardball (Original post)

Mon Sep 1, 2014, 03:00 PM

Sep 2014

I'm a huge Everest fan.

So glad the video doesn't show the piles of trash that we humans have left behind on that beautiful mountain.

RiffRandell

(5,909 posts)

6. Yeah, I was thinking where's all the oxygen tanks?

Reply to cwydro (Reply #5)

Mon Sep 1, 2014, 03:19 PM

Sep 2014

Very cool video.

I like to think I'm the adventurous type, but no interest in that.

I have the book Into Thin Air and I was crying when the most experienced climber couldn't move and called his pregnant wife
before he died.

Then the sherpas dying recently.

I'll be on my couch.

cwydro

(51,308 posts)

7. Lots of great books out there.

Reply to RiffRandell (Reply #6)

Mon Sep 1, 2014, 08:37 PM

Sep 2014

I'm hooked on Everest.

But I'm horrified at the misuse of the great mountain. Sagarmatha is not happy at what man has done to her.

RiffRandell

(5,909 posts)

10. Yep.

Reply to cwydro (Reply #7)

Mon Sep 1, 2014, 08:49 PM

Sep 2014

It was 1996 when that unexpected storm came in and I think 6 people died.

Vanity Fair had a great article on it then the book came out.

The other book by Jon I have is Into the Wild. That was depressing too.

cwydro

(51,308 posts)

9. Du rec. nt

Reply to Playinghardball (Original post)

Mon Sep 1, 2014, 08:47 PM

Sep 2014

Fla Dem

(23,650 posts)

11. Drones are good for something. Wonderful experience. nt

Reply to Playinghardball (Original post)

Tue Sep 2, 2014, 06:31 PM

Sep 2014

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