Everest - Khumbu glacier

[Wyndru]

It's crazy that even though the place is so vast, humans still are still scattered all over.

 

[n7]

just gorgeous

 

[phucheneh]

I am guessing that Camp 2 is hidden behind the rock outcropping at the top right of the icefall.

Yeah, I think all the other camps are hidden. 1 and 2 are in the big-ass valley between the mountains, and I think 4 must be on the other side of the ridge linking Everest and Lhotse.

And as far as people all over- they just took the pic at the right time of year. There's a pretty specific 'climbing season' where a lot of summit attempts are successful and fatalities are fairly rare (for an 8000m+ mountain, at least).

At many other times of the year, Everest goes from being one of the easiest eight-thousanders to a deathwish.

They say the biggest problem during the busy season is actually congestion, since everyone is using the same fixed ropes and the final summit push is basically single file.

 

[RossMAN]

No thank you....

Hell no, I'm perfectly fine watching it in HDTV.

 

[EliteRetard]

Highest I've ever climbed was about 16,000 ft.

At 12-14k I was out of breath, 16k I didn't feel that great.
I made it back down just fine but not sure I'd ever have the lungs to do 20+k.

 

[rbV5]

Plenty of room for more!

 

[SKORPI0]

Messy place with lots of tents at base camp. Not to mention the dead bodies left behind near the summit since retrieving them would be costly and difficult. D:

Looks like ATOT has bandwidth issues. :whiste:

 

[phucheneh]

Basecamp doesn't seem to be that messy. Just crowded.

There's supposedly a lot of garbage on the mountain, though. No one wants to haul their crap up and back down with them, so unless they're on an expedition with lots of Sherpas who can do the job, it gets left. Gotta imagine there's a hell of a lot of frozen O2 bottles up there.

 

[RossMAN]

Plenty of room for more!

Hell to the no. I don't think I could make it past base camp.

 

[KillerCharlie]

I've crossed crevasses on ladders before, but they had a couple 2x4s on them so it wasn't a big deal. Climbing up or across bare ladders with crampons has got to suck big time.

What would scare me there is the quality of the fixed lines more than the exposure itself.

 

[Triumph]

I think the the blue buildings at the right are a permanent lower base camp. The slew of tents on the rocky area below where the icefall is spilling out is the true 'base camp.' I'm assuming that's what you were referring to.

If you look closer to the literal 'middle' of the picture, between Everest (highest peak in the distance, left of icefall) and Nuptse (closest peak on right), you can make out 'Camp III' on the Lhotse face (Lhotse is middle peak)

The south route as described by Wikipedia:

Cool, thanks! that's what I was looking for, I think I found the camps on the face of Lohtse, but not sure which ones they are, you can zoom in and see a line of ants moving up the face of the mountain.

I'm reading Into Thin Air right now about the 1996 Everest expedition, pretty good book so far. It's really interesting to learn how inhospitable this place is. Even though people claim it's a walk in the park, just sitting around above 25,000 feet, doing nothing, is hard on your body. The author said that if you took someone from sea level and dumped them right off at 20-25,000 feet, the person would be dead within minutes.

 

[GagHalfrunt]

Plenty of room for more!

Crossing the ladder wouldn't be that bad, imagine the Sherpas that rigged the ladder and were the first ones up it. Now that takes balls.

 

[z0mb13]

Marked for later

 

[phucheneh]

Cool, thanks! that's what I was looking for, I think I found the camps on the face of Lohtse, but not sure which ones they are, you can zoom in and see a line of ants moving up the face of the mountain.

I'm reading Into Thin Air right now about the 1996 Everest expedition, pretty good book so far. It's really interesting to learn how inhospitable this place is. Even though people claim it's a walk in the park, just sitting around above 25,000 feet, doing nothing, is hard on your body. The author said that if you took someone from sea level and dumped them right off at 20-25,000 feet, the person would be dead within minutes.

Into Thin Air is good stuff.

The reason Everest is called 'easy' is because of the comparison to other 8000m Himalayan mountains.

On the established route, the fixed lines are all in place, there is no actual rock climbing, ect. Just a lot of walking up steep hills. It's not easy, but when you compare it to, say, K2 or Annapurna, it is known for being both less technical and having less brutal weather (generally). The altitude is really your biggest fight.

 

[OutHouse]

im waiting for the tram with the restaurant and gift shop at the top of Everest.

 

[RossMAN]

Crossing the ladder wouldn't be that bad, imagine the Sherpas that rigged the ladder and were the first ones up it. Now that takes balls.

You know I never thought of that. Yeah that takes some balls.

 

[EliteRetard]

im waiting for the tram with the restaurant and gift shop at the top of Everest.

If the Japanese get there...

Already pulled that on Fuji, strip mall, food/beer, and hotels on the top.

 

[Triumph]

If the Japanese get there...

Already pulled that on Fuji, strip mall, food/beer, and hotels on the top.

that's how tons of peaks in the alps are. take tram to top, eat knodels and drink beer at restaurant. i think it's great.

 

[JTsyo]

I didn't even notice the base camp until I zoomed way in.

yea, the scale is pretty nuts. First I though it was just the peaks. You really need the base camp to establish the scale.

 

[FelixDeCat]

Lovely landscape. Thankfully I did not see any unliving persons.