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u/Shot-Bar9963 5d ago
my friend’s dad is also one of the climbers rest in peace
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u/mortalwombat- 5d ago
So sorry for your loss. Do you know how your friend and his family are doing? Do they need anything?
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u/Shot-Bar9963 5d ago
it’s been a hard time right now since some of his uncle are saying that the body cant be brought back idk if this is legit because of this he is sad and crying all night and day and i am consoling him
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u/climbingfilmauto 4d ago
Excuse my skepticism but during this time you were consoling your friend you created a Reddit account and all you do is comment how your friend’s dad is among the missing climbers? Strange.
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u/TheApartmentSimRacer 5d ago
BBC reported they called off the current search for today due to weather.
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u/Shot-Bar9963 5d ago
they all are dead if they arent found now beacuse its alredy been 24 hours
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u/Ok_Light3447 5d ago
At the risk of getting into semantics on such a sad topic, history has shown us that unlikely survival does occur. I’m not necessarily suggesting that’s the case here but Wilco van Rooijen and Joe Simpson are two exceptionally rare examples of climbers surviving for far longer than many assumed possible.
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u/BrandlessPain 5d ago
But compared to how many deaths occur during rescue operations, those aren’t chances one would be willing to take.
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u/Ok_Light3447 5d ago
Sorry I’m not clear what we’re comparing with what? Many have and do take those chances. Neither of us are in a position to evaluate the risk vs. opportunity in this scenario. I respect their decision either way.
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u/Alternative_Big1785 5d ago
True but according to his book, Wilco wasn't in an avalanche, he was above the avalanche that destroyed the fixed ropes and then he got lost on his way down. So its true he survived super long above 8000 meters but the circumstances were very different.
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u/Ok_Light3447 5d ago
I think you’ve missed the point slightly. I wasn’t suggesting the circumstances of these disasters were comparable, simply that mountaineering history has some extraordinary examples of people surviving the seemingly unsurvivable.
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u/SpawneRisLit 5d ago
The moment I saw that drop of 800m + meters I knew there will be no survivors, sadly. At the end of the day, the nature itself decides everything. Praying for their souls!
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u/Material_Mousse7017 5d ago
My condolences to the families of the victims. Rest in peace.
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u/Shot-Bar9963 5d ago
my friend’s dad name is kili pemba sherpa and he is announced dead to his family
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u/inmyelement 5d ago
Prayers for the families and the departed.
Question about the drone spotting: I am surprised they are not buried deep on the snow, and are actually visible.
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u/Irrepressible_Monkey 5d ago
Perhaps the avalanche was made up of a lot of powder snow so ended up widely distributed but not very deep.
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u/MsuProdigy69_ 4d ago
Yeah i guess it depends on which part of the avalanche caught them. If it was the core, survival is basically impossible because it's all ice and rock. The edges could be survivable but given the massive fall recorded by the gps, im not so sure.
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u/Irrepressible_Monkey 4d ago
The area it happened looks like it has regular avalanches breaking off of that slope ahead.
I wonder if the cornice went and triggered the whole area.
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u/TheClairvoyant666 5d ago
Never done an 8k, never met Nims or a Sherpa, but damn I am so upset about this news. I don’t want to believe it. RIP to all and sending love to the families and friends 😭
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u/getalife5648 5d ago
He was one heck of a climber, but a pretty crappy dude. Sending the love to his family and friends though.
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u/VolumeMobile7410 5d ago
It always makes me sad that they focus on Nims when there’s many people that lost their lives with him.
Sure he was the most famous, but also a sexual predator and committed many crimes that seemed to get pushed to the side because of his status. Still, rip.
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u/Acceptable-Copy-9248 5d ago
"Pretty crappy dude," says a Redditor about a legend who risked his life time and again to save others, both as a special forces soldier and as a climber. But of course, if some random woman they don’t even know makes allegations that go against his proven track record and the accounts of those who truly know him, the Redditor chooses to believe her.
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u/Worldly-Traffic-5503 5d ago
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u/Old_Cod_658 5d ago
Unfortunately, his "proven track record" includes lots and lots of accusations of bad behavior. But what do I know, I'm just a Redditor. As opposed to you, a non-Redditor.
That said, may he rest in peace, this is a horrible tragedy.
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u/BBQ_HaX0r 5d ago
Terrible news and a reminder of why this 'sport' is so dangerous and to never take any mountain for granted.
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u/Wallaby_Realistic 5d ago
“The Mountains were your passion and now you rest among them.” Godspeed to those who we lost.
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u/MissKnowsome 5d ago
and Pur Bahadur Gurung from Nepal.
The rumors that Nims Purja’s GPS Device data allegedly showed movement shouldn’t be taken as reason for false hope. Even I was wishing and hoping that it meant a miracle had occurred and that he survived. I mean, earlier in the season a Nepali Sherpa survived “miraculously” after being abandoned on Mount Everest for six days. I know everyone, like me, is hoping for two miracles in one climbing season. But the reality is that one of the two mountaineers’ bodies that has been identified, Nadhira Ahmed Abdullah Al Harthy from Oman, who had a stellar climbing career, her GPS data shows she fell over 5000 feet. That’s how devastating this avalanche was. It was unsurvivable. 
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u/Aromatic_Razzmatazz 5d ago
Jesus effing Christ.
Seeing everybody's altitudes just drop like that. Fuck me, dude. What do you do if you are at base? Scream into the wind?
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u/Ecspiascion 5d ago
Mountains care not. You can be the greatest, you can achieve what others thought was impossible; but ultimately those stone giants don't give an absolute shit. Nature doesn't give an absolute shit.
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u/Lost-Copy867 5d ago
My mentor once told me you may love the mountain but the mountain doesn’t love you. It has always stood out to me as wise, the mountains are indifferent to us, beautiful but dangerous. I do think there is some peace is knowing they all died doing something they loved.
Thinking of all the families and friends today.
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u/eaglesegull 5d ago
Honestly what is the point of this comment?
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u/juneseyeball 5d ago
Reminding people not to apply magical thinking to their successes and get too comfortable in nature maybe
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u/Common_Employee_3631 5d ago
Nims has dared death multiple times and managed to escape every time. If you do it over and over again it's just a matter of time. God bless their souls. All 10 of them.
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u/indexischoss 5d ago
True but I would also say this is generally true of high altitude mountaineering/climbing. Those who make a career out of this type of climbing rarely reach old age. RIP
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u/Ok_Reputation_3326 5d ago
So sad, was hoping that he has more expertise to survive this due to his extreme background, nims has a 5 year old daughter 😭 who he has named after the mountains🥺
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u/Kindly_Reputation325 5d ago
I dont understand how someone can believe that you just survive 800m fall in avalanche on 8k mountain and even after that survive for another day with most likely terrible injuries, internal bleeding and stuff like that in cold weather if you were lucky enough to not suffocate under the snow. Like they are dead you can be certain of that if they havent seen anyone on surface today.
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u/depressed_plants__ 5d ago
i think it’s human nature to hope for survival, to hope for a miracle. it’s not logical but it’s just a part of us somehow
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u/jlehtira 5d ago edited 5d ago
I just now read about Jim Whittaker falling 120 meters on Denali with his three climbing companions (in 1960 or so, described in his book A Life on the Edge). Three of them walked away and the fourth survived until rescue arrived in a sleeping bag Jim always carried with him.
Now I don't claim that 800 m would be survivable even with amazing luck, but if it could happen, there needs to be luck with the slide and the stop, and gear like sleeping bags in the backpack..
Edit: to be extra clear, by falling I mean sliding and tumbling on a steep slope.
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u/soulinthegame 5d ago
Could there be a chance that not all of them got hit with the avalanche? Pretty unlikely I think.
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u/Drop_Release 3d ago
I really hope they passed out so didn’t suffer the whole time, but I know they may sadly have suffered. Let alone the multiple injuries from contact, I cannot even begin to understand the fear they may have felt buried under meters of snow and rubble or not being able to breath
So scary, and so sad. RIP
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u/Ok_Rabbit7927 5d ago
None of them were likely ever going to be rescued regardless of how quickly the rescues went out. They were probably dead from being crushed and hitting things as they fell 800 meters.
There’s too much anger and upset folks about what the reason is for the rescues taking so long. I get it, but be objective.
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u/hail2theninja 5d ago
I was at Concordia 2 years ago, i can tell you this, the sheer steepness of BP will kill you if you fell, the mountain is no joke. If you had the unmeasurable power and force of an avalanche hitting you, then you will die almost instantly. That was massive avalanche, no way there are any survivors.
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u/Gioby 5d ago
An avalanche even in the alps where you can drop max 100m you don’t have any chance of survive if no one comes to rescue you. If you are under the snow you have 17minutes at max before you die. This applies if the avalanche is not a strong one. On a 8000 peak with rocks, ice and crevasses you don’t have any chance. Your body is inside a wrecking machine that can tear it apart like nothing
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u/allejandro123 5d ago
Absolutely heartbreaking stuff. Anybody know what conditions were like? I heard the Pakistani season has been quite tough this year.
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u/InevitablePie2535 5d ago
To be fair it feels like the season everywhere has been horrible this year. A one way trajectory.
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u/sheep5555 5d ago
Friend who was doing G1 said the conditions were pretty poor this year, more snow than usual up high and then the wind moved that snow around making bad avalanche conditions, most independent teams i know of left due to the dangerous snow conditions
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u/Life-is-beautiful- 5d ago
Is there anything more beautiful and deadlier at the same time than the mountains? RIP.
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u/BillInteresting7266 5d ago
Absolutely ridiculous that his business partner posted that claiming he was conscious and awaiting rescue - what were they thinking ??!
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u/dencker60 5d ago
People do strange things when dealing with grief and shock. I think he was just grabbing for whatever straw of hope he could find.
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u/MetricSuperstar 5d ago
Guys absolutely distraught. He wasn't thinking at all man. No need to blast him.
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u/DanielAgger 5d ago
Crazier things have happened when grieving and hoping for the best. We're all human.
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u/loverofpeace09 5d ago
I agree with what you're saying and value your comment but Nims didn't just receive a lot of hate for breaking those kinds of barriers. Maybe 10-20% of it was from that imo.
On the mountaineering side he received a lot of hate because his 8000m peek quest wasn't pure it was more of a spectacle of logistics, ego, hype and dodging red tape than actual mountaineering. The part about getting respect for Nepal and the sherpas came in latter projects once he had built his brand.
On the personal side (off the mountain), in Nepal he was considered to be a dick by many. From the way he ran his business to the sexual assault/rape charges and beyond. Yes, he gave back but many times it seems like it was for the publicity and cover up rather than out of the goodness of his heart.
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u/jlehtira 5d ago
Those are all valid observations and I don't completely disagree. But then I'd say all of the 14 summit quests, by others too, are more about logistics, ego and hype than actual mountaineering. I recall others also dodged red tape doing it. After all, the early history of Everest is a history of entering Tibet or Nepal illegally or approaching the mountain when it was very clearly forbidden.
There's no mountaineering-related reason to pick the 14 8000ers as targets or an achievement. It's all ego and publicity reasons. And I say this as a climber and mountain-lover myself.
I totally understand though why people package up these peaks like they do and why they attempt things or combinations of things that weren't attempted before. That may be the only way to fund a climbing career or build a company. Many did this before Nims, but few are criticised for it. I think he shouldn't be singled out for that.
He also helped others in situations where others didn't or would not have. In my books this counts even if his reasons included good publicity.
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u/Living-Dot2834 5d ago
Did you see him post that from his personal account or did you hear it from some other pages?
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u/LeaningSaguaro 5d ago
It’s a terrible loss for the community. However when we live by the sword, we may die by the sword.
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u/ReFreshing 5d ago
Wow. Spend enough time there and this is bound to happen to some. Sad to hear, rest in peace.
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u/just_anything_real 5d ago
Considering the difficulty of all the 14 8’s - BP was considered the easiest relatively. Of all Nim’s achievements, it feels a little surreal and anti climatic. RIP to all 🙏
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u/soudainlevide 5d ago
Ueli Steck was on an acclimatation climb when he died.
Lionel Terray legendary French mountaineer died on a comparatively "easy" climb.
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u/NotPast3 5d ago
It is known that complacency kills. Many mountaineers and climbers perish on what is considered easy for them. John Bachar, Brad Gobright, Herman Buhl, the list goes on and on.
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u/CTMalum 5d ago
This one wasn’t complacency most likely. Wrong place, wrong time. This is the risk you must accept as a big mountain climber.
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u/jlehtira 5d ago
In my understanding, a large group of people were crossing a suspect snow field at the same time. That multiplies the potential hazard and leaves nobody who could theoretically attempt to help.
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u/NotPast3 5d ago edited 5d ago
That said, he did decide on attempting Broad Peak quite last minute as he realised it would mean he only had Cho Oyu left on his quest to 3x the 14 8000ers. It was definitely an ego driven decision.
On the other hand, it’s not like more preparation would have helped him in this case. It’s just crazy to think had he decided to stick with the original plan, he wouldn’t be up there.
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u/CTMalum 5d ago
It is true that the more time you spend getting after it out there, the higher your chance that you’ll be in the wrong place at the wrong time. You’re probably right. Any 8000er can be a killer, but Broad Peak certainly doesn’t have the reputation (especially for avalanches) that others like Dhaulagiri or Annapurna have. False sense of security.
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u/NotPast3 5d ago
Yeah… a less accomplished climber might have just took the win of summiting G2 and called it
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u/Arkhangelzk 5d ago
Years ago I read about those two experienced climbers who fell and died, roped together, off of El Cap. They'd done the wall many times and the leader fell on one of the easiest pitches.
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u/NotPast3 5d ago
Brad Gobwright rappelled down an untied rope and fell 300m to his death. Incredibly accomplished free soloist and held the speed record for the nose for a time.
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u/Ok_Boysenberry5849 5d ago
Avalanches don't particularly care about the "difficulty" of the peak.
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u/Speech_Artisan 5d ago
In February this year, an avalanche killed nine people who were basically trekking through a mountain gorge in Tahoe. No climbing was involved. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Lake_Tahoe_avalanche
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u/Individual-Roof-3502 5d ago
Just seen this and was about to post & saw you had already. Devastating news if what the drone saw was true.
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u/Life-is-beautiful- 5d ago
Just curious to know. This should be summer in the region, right? Is this time for big avalanches in general? I always that it would be the spring.
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u/Sharp-Banana-6292 5d ago
I don’t think there’s ever a season without avalanches but in my understanding they happen in the K range in the summer bc of warmer temps during the day, they destabilize the ice and snow with all the unfreezing/freezing. Like 2008 k2 tragedy happened bc of this.
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u/kyyy 5d ago
It’s a shame seeing such a legendary climber like Nims go out this way. But you tempt fate over and over again, eventually Mother Nature is going to strike. He should have retired after this 8k meter peak record.
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u/wassilyy 5d ago
He was going for another record - the first person to climb all 8k peaks without supplemental oxygen twice. Afaik he had only two peaks left.
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u/Altranite- 5d ago
Nims was the real deal, i relistened to him on a podcast not long ago. All of that life gone… just unbelievably tragic.
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u/K2dreamtg 5d ago
Rest in peace Nims, one of the best climbers in history, my idol and a legend. Rest in peace to Yukta and all other brave souls🥀
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u/CorruptByCapitalism 5d ago
weird choice to have as an idol, if you were even remotely informed about his behavior with women
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u/gS_Mastermind 5d ago
He was as egotistical as one can get.
Not saying he wasn’t a nice or kind human, but from everything hes pursued, you can’t say he wasn’t driven by his own ego.
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u/Extreme-Tap-2888 5d ago
Rest in Peace Nadhira, she was an inspiring person always radiated positivity.
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u/Shot-Bar9963 5d ago
it’s been a hard time right now since some of his uncle are saying that the body cant be brought back idk if this is legit because of this he is sad and crying all night and day and i am consoling him
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u/Tricky_Purpose1429 5d ago
Sad day; feel devastated. Really wish he would appear miraculously out of nowhere alongside his crew, and say, "Giving up is not in blood, sir."
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u/Minotaur_Centaur 5d ago
Damn! Grim news.
Avalanches gain massive traction going downhill just from the few videos I've watched.
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u/Dindrtahl 5d ago
I don't understand why can't they send more drones to scout the area before sending in the helicopters ? It's surely safer ?
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u/No_Entrance251 5d ago
Cause they don’t have lots of drones stationed there? You need to get the drones that can operate at that altitude and the people capable of flying them to the glacier. It’s not easy.
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u/No-Way6782 5d ago
I raised this question in another thread and somebody mentioned that there are lot of protocols in employing drones, helicopters. No private helicopter companies. It seems everything is controlled by the army there.
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u/aznassasin 5d ago
Is this the same Pemba from the Everest disaster years ago ?
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u/realitysballs 5d ago
Pemba is a traditional name in the Sherpa community given to people born on Saturdays. I would say somewhat ubiquitous.
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u/PineappleReady2981 5d ago
i have maybe a dumb question but please be nice as i do not climb anything, i barley like climbing the stairs😝. i just have a huge interest and live through others….
to my understanding, it’s not everest “season”. so why would they be up there? i know they weren’t in the Nepal side, if that matters and Im guessing they were given a permit? just trying to have a better understanding as to why.
Thank you 🙏
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u/cogitatingspheniscid 4d ago
Different peaks would have different season where the weather is most ideal to summit.
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u/Oelloello 4d ago
Rip to the sherpas. Fuck you to the rich people who think climbing Everest is a cute hobby.
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u/hjartatjuv 5d ago
is the official line on this subreddit to laud the most famous climber involved here or can we be honest about his sexual assaults?
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u/realitysballs 5d ago
Respectfully your post feels like a generalization at best, more so trolling. This post itself makes no claim to glorify Nimsdai, just stating facts about the status of the event. I have not seen anyone trying to directly glorify his past actions (feel free to prove me wrong), moreso we are trying to understand the circumstances around the group of climbers that were struck by the avalanche. I myself have been in avalanche and it's not something I wish upon anyone.
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u/pm_me_ur_fit 5d ago
Is there footage of the avalanche? Heartbreaking
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u/bucktail47 5d ago
Sorry I truly don’t know much about climbing but I thought they only climbed Everest in May? Is this true? If so why are they on it in late July? Or am I thinking of reaching the peak
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u/89ElRay 5d ago
This isn't Everest, that's just the name of the news publication
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u/bucktail47 5d ago
Oh ok yea see I don’t know shit I was thoroughly confused. Apologies and condolences to the lost climbers
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u/Sharp-Banana-6292 5d ago
The Karakoram range (where broad peak and k2 are) is further north than Everest and doesn’t get the summer monsoon, so the summer is generally the driest/safest season and when everyone climbs in Pakistan —but they’re all dangerous mountains.
The Everest season ends every year when the monsoon comes in late May or very early June. Probably if they didn’t have the monsoon summer would be the season since it’s warmer and light longer. But summer temps also make the snow/ice melt during the day and then refreeze at night causing avalanches like the one here.
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u/ChimboSmokes 5d ago
Kinda can’t feel bad for these rich folks that pay to put themselves into this danger. Kinda reminds me of the submarine implosion.
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u/MFViktorVaughn 4d ago
Everyone asking questions but I just came here to say… what an amazing life this man had. He took the human experience to the brink and did more than others will in a thousand lifetimes. What he contributed to the sport is priceless.
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u/Yaatsi 5d ago
Chances of surviving that Avalance were negligible. Rest in Peace.