Brawl on Everest

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Brawl on Everest

Postby 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?!? :evil:
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Re: Brawl on Everest

Postby 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...
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Re: Brawl on Everest

Postby theriault » Mon Apr 29, 2013 1:30 pm

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Re: Brawl on Everest

Postby 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??
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Re: Brawl on Everest

Postby Stacey » Tue May 07, 2013 6:46 am

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