2023-08-10 at 9:07 PM UTC
Lazy, resentful Sherpa maliciously uses his body to try to prevent heroic woman from reaching K2 mountain summit.
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2023-08-11 at 6:48 AM UTC
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[the staring tame crusher]
She just got one of them faces you could punch.
2023-08-11 at 9:12 AM UTC
I thought sherpas were like shepherds. You're telling me I just blew a load to this slut for NOTHING
2023-08-11 at 10:46 AM UTC
This is normal for dangerous climbs, no? They don't even recover people's bodies because it's too dangerous, and future climbers end up using their corpses as trail markers since the weather keeps them more-or-less intact.
2023-08-11 at 11:08 AM UTC
Fucked up but I was actually reading a ton about Everest today for totally different reasons? I was exploring the Hereford Mappa Mundi, and looked up a feature I found on that map which was labelled "Charybdis" (whirlpool monster from greek legend, the one on the map corresponding with some IRL whirlpools in... I wanna say Norway, ironically), which led me down a tangential wiki investigation rabbithole: first to the "Charybdis icefall", which led to me reading about icefalls in general, which led to the southern ascent of Everest which traverses the Khumbu icefall.
Weird af how that happens. Did I kill this nigga?
Also, fun fact: he wasn't a Sherpa. Sherpas are a Tibetan/Nepalese ethnic group who are largely Nyingma Buddhists. This nigga was a Pakistani named Mohammed. Also, even according to the article you posted, there were other "sherpas" present who are just as guilty of abandoning him and whose judgment on whether or not that was the "right call" it would probably make sense to defer to. (Being that they are the guides and nominally the 'experienced' climbers in an expedition, who are present as much for their knowledge of mountaineering as they are rich people's desire to have someone else carry all their shit.)
2023-08-11 at 11:26 AM UTC
Once you're in the dead zone the risk of trying to save someone becomes too great