A chance for Nepal to make some tourism bucks...

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Reality show plans Everest climb

More than 1,000 people have reached the summit

An American cable channel is looking for contestants prepared to climb Mount Everest to compete for a cash prize in a new reality television show.
The assault on the world's tallest mountain will be the culmination of the new series on the Outdoor Life Network.

Let's hope this generates some cash for Nepal. Perhaps they should visit the kamis at Bir Gorkha first...

more at:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/tv_and_radio/2339087.stm

Keith
 
LOL.

I'll be surprised if this comes off...

Climbing Everest is no place for petty squabbles and scheming by bozos with a quickie mountaineering course. Somebody's gonna get left there as a human popsicle if they try this.

I pity any Sherpas that get mixed up in this instead of the usual climbers they deal with, which I'm sure at times is bad enough. Cash prize competition and climbing Everest is a bad mix.


 
Let's hope this generates some cash for Nepal. Perhaps they should visit the kamis at Bir Gorkha first...

I would imagine, with the current situation in Nepal, Bir Gorka wants to remain as low key as possible. Wouldn't want all that attention.
 
where climbers walk PAST the bodies of former climbers who didn't make it? Something about it being too expensive/dangerous to recover?

(And we talk about litter in the U.S.!)


Seems to me I agree with an old friend who said: "If god had wanted me to climb mountains, he would have made them flat.":D




Kis
:rolleyes:
 
Until the army of Nepal get a pretty good handle on the insurgent problem, the shop is better off without a bunch of notoriety. The lower profile the better. If we can the place for the notoriety is here in the states where the blades are sold.

I don't get out and about much but anyone who has seen one of my khuks usually asks about them and they sure do find out where they came from and how to get one or two,



:) :D
 
There are going to be alot of dead people if they try this stunt. Climbing something like Everest is no trivial matter. You usually want someone who has as least demonstrated the ability to endure at altitude, and the only way to do this is to have previous high elevation climbing experience. You can overcome some of the technical obstacles by throwing in alot of support, but, that won't help someone suffering from altitude sickness and too many people on that slope can bog things down and create a major disaster.

Well perhaps this is the perfect finale for these reality show goons.

n2s
 
Lots of the tallest mountains have a few bodies on the route since it's not worth the risk, or impossible to recover them. Everest must have the most, not to mention zillions of oxygen bottles.

Guy I knew trained for a year to attempt to climb the tallest mountain in S. America. They ran across a body on their climb. BTW, after one failed summit attempt, he bagged it and descended. He knew his body wouldn't have enough left after staying a couple more days at that altitude until his summit team would have another crack at it. The human body just continuously deteriorates at those altitudes no matter what. And anyone can get an embolism without warning.

There's still a few activities/places where just staying alive or doing what you came to do takes just about everything, and it's nearly impossible to film. I think that's good.
 
heeheehee! agreed. As a great Shakespeare Professor and WWII vet once told me: Sometimes you gotta go to far to know you've gone too far.
Keith
 
If the weather's good, and they have a guide with half a brain cell, it might be OK.

Then again, looking at the hour or two of reality shows I've seen (thank goodness for no TV!!!) and the "contestants" this could be an epic disaster movie. If I were going on the show, I wouldn't sign the insurance waiver and release of liability.
 
Everest and the Himalayas exact their toll every year. I think about 35 climbers lost their lives one season when I was living in Nepal -- tough year. As I recall the Indian Army lost 8 members of their climbing team. Australian team took a heavy hit that year, too. I remember talking with an Aussie who had lost his girlfriend on the climb. She went into a crevass. Gone forever.

I think this stunt is probably a poor idea but we live and learn.
 
I understand a lot of Everest climbers come back with varying
degrees of brain damage due to prolonged oxygen starvation,
even though most take oxygen with.

Not my cup of tea.

OTOH.

"It takes all kinds," may be a trueism;
but it's also very true.

Yvsa's ancestors (and other indigenous peoples around the world)
would have been a lot happier if a bunch of risk-takers
hadn't ventured across the unknown lands.

And we wouldn't be flying off on vacation
without the test pilots who 'iron out the wrinkles'.

It makes me feel good when I see someone prove what is humanly possible;
once thought not possible.
But sad when someone dies in an attempt.
More especially when it often seems pointless in the exercise.

What we need is a new frontier toward which to point
those adventerous souls.
I hope space will open up as that frontier in my or my child's lifetime.
Whooooaaaaa........Philisophical glaze warning....
Abort......
Abort.....
 
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