Woken up to startling news; Jacinda Ardern resigns as NZ PM after concluding she “no longer has enough in the tank to do it justice”. I’ve only ever seen political leaders forced out or voted out, but in Ardern we find a rare exception, who again shows us how to lead differently https://t.co/XtRfM381Uh
Nepalese mountaineer Tenzi Sherpa has filmed the hundreds of kilos worth of rubbish that is routinely left behind by campers on the world’s tallest mountain, Everest, and called on the government to impose harsh penalties on those found polluting pic.twitter.com/p1NknZlla8
MOUNT EVEREST IS THERE AND THAT’S WHY THEY CLIMB IT BUT SOME NEVER RETURNED.
Mount Everest is the highest mountain in the world. You would be right to consider it the ultimate challenge for mountaineers
By the end of the 2010 climbing season, there had been 5,104 ascents to the summit by about 3,142 individuals. 80% of these ascents have taken place since 2000. In 2007, the record number of 633 ascents has been recorded, by 350 climbers and 253 sherpas.
However, more than 200 climbers have died, of which about 150 have never been recovered.
Yes, that is right. Their bodies are still there, unrecovered.
Update: Ravieverest is blocking anyone on social media who tries to comment or say anything. He has also blocked Gelje Sherpa who saved his life. No thanks, no acknowledgement, and now just blocked.
there's an incredible story going on in the mountaineering community rn. there's a Malaysian climber who was at death's door, and was rescued by a sherpa who risked his own life to carry his lifeless body on his back for 6 hours. The climber then blocked the sherpa on Instagram https://t.co/AJW70vJ3Kr
the sherpa, Gelje, had even persuaded his own client to cancel their own attempt so that they could save Ravi's life. Ravi then subsequently did media appearances and ig posts etc and said nothing about Gelje. Blocked him!! https://t.co/XjnWzR8qjO
KATHMANDU: A Malaysian climber narrowly survived after a Nepali sherpa guide hauled him down from below the summit of Mount Everest in a “very rare” high-altitude rescue, a government official said on Wednesday (May 31).
Gelje Sherpa, 30, was guiding a Chinese client to the 8,849m Everest summit on May 18 when he saw the Malaysian climber clinging to a rope and shivering from extreme cold in the area called the “death zone”, where temperatures can dip to minus 30 degrees Celsius or lower.
Gelje hauled the climber 600m down from the Balcony area to the South Col, over a period of about six hours, where Nima Tahi Sherpa, another guide, joined the rescue.
“We wrapped the climber in a sleeping mat, dragged him on the snow or carried him in turns on our backs to camp III,” Gelje said.
A helicopter using a long line then lifted him from the 7,162m-high Camp III down to base camp.
“It is almost impossible to rescue climbers at that altitude,” Department of Tourism official Bigyan Koirala told Reuters. “It is a very rare operation.” .
Tashi Lakhpa Sherpa of the Seven Summit Treks company, which provided logistics to the Malaysian climber, declined to name him, citing his client’s privacy. The climber was put on a flight to Malaysia last week.
Nepal issued a record 478 permits for Everest during this year’s March to May climbing season.
At least 12 climbers have died – the highest number for eight years, and another five are still missing on Everest’s slopes.
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