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samnsara

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13. May is climbing season for Everest proper... I think one side is..

Reply to riversedge (Original post)

Wed Oct 8, 2025, 07:56 AM

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..less strenuous more of a trek. Still at 16,000 ft it is not for an inexperienced weekend hike.

A friend of mine belongs to an adventure group and they have hiked up to base camp...not sure which side she went up. Shes senior citizen like me so Im sure she didnt do anything REAL dangerous.. still she had to go across a rope bridge. I would have stopped right there, sat in the snow and waited for them to return.

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Rescue efforts under way after 1,000 people trapped on Mount Everest slopes [View all] riversedge Sunday OP

i suppose we have to pay for the helicopters and such for these intrepid advenrurers? rampartd Sunday #1

they should have to pay for their rescues Skittles Sunday #4

Are you a Chinese taxpayer? muriel_volestrangler Wednesday #11

it's downhill all the way Tetrachloride Sunday #2

Hiking up Everest in single file with several thousand people just doesn't seem inspiring. Silent Type Sunday #3

It was meant to be a fun day out! Aussie105 Sunday #5

It seems really early for snowstorms, doesn't it? FakeNoose Sunday #6

very few of those 1000 are real climbers pimpbot Sunday #7

Yeah, shouldn't count if you didn't carry your own shit. Captain Zero Monday #9

Photos of the climbers look like the Klondike GenThePerservering Monday #8

I have no sympathy. Javaman Monday #10

Mount Everest rescue: all hikers now safe after days stranded in powerful blizzard muriel_volestrangler Wednesday #12

May is climbing season for Everest proper... I think one side is.. samnsara Wednesday #13