can honestly say that this one shocks me...
"sherpas pelted the Europeans’ tents with stones and punches were thrown"
at 7000m!! what the?!?
Brawl on Everest
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Brawl on Everest
by Stacey » Mon Apr 29, 2013 9:04 am
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/World/2013/ ... ml?cid=ETF
can honestly say that this one shocks me...
"sherpas pelted the Europeans’ tents with stones and punches were thrown"
at 7000m!! what the?!?
can honestly say that this one shocks me...
"sherpas pelted the Europeans’ tents with stones and punches were thrown"
at 7000m!! what the?!?
''When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.''
~John Muir
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Re: Brawl on Everest
by Stacey » Mon Apr 29, 2013 1:14 pm
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldne ... brawl.html
more news on the incident...Seems that Ueli, et al just wanted to get going (it was 8am), and were 'passing' by as they were solo climbers, versus the sherpas setting ropes for their paying customers.
Scary that the commercialism of Everest is leading to this...
more news on the incident...Seems that Ueli, et al just wanted to get going (it was 8am), and were 'passing' by as they were solo climbers, versus the sherpas setting ropes for their paying customers.
Scary that the commercialism of Everest is leading to this...
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Re: Brawl on Everest
by Stacey » Tue Apr 30, 2013 5:16 pm
http://www.ctvnews.ca/mobile/video?playlistId=1.1260065
ctv news report...cdn woman 'calmed' the sherpas down....thankfully chilvary/ not hitting a woman is not dead in Nepali world (or at least a Canadian woman)/ Camp 2??
ctv news report...cdn woman 'calmed' the sherpas down....thankfully chilvary/ not hitting a woman is not dead in Nepali world (or at least a Canadian woman)/ Camp 2??
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Re: Brawl on Everest
by Stacey » Tue May 07, 2013 6:46 am
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