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Four climbers found dead on Everest

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By ROBERTO SCHMIDT

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why not build a solid base camp like they have in Antartica? it could have solar power, generators, emergency hospital and garbage collection.

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I find it fascinating that some people, mostly sherpas (?), are able to reach the summit without using bottled oxygen. It is a well known fact that many people will lose consciousness at half the height of Everest, unless they have supplemental oxygen.

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@Glenn. It is fascinating. Read about Anatoli Boukreev and what he did in 1996 trying to rescue several climbers - after climbing Everest without Oxygen. I went to Everest Base camp in the very early 90's. From what I have read and seen it has changed since then (just more modern amenities).

Climbing Everest has turned into big business. Organizers charge exorbitant fees and are often trying to get "unqualified" climbers up the mountain. Scott Fischer and Rob Hall (2 very experienced and excellent climbers and guides) paid with their lives trying to do this.

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The cheapest no-frills BYO accent is $25,000 per person. These deaths of Sherpas are the result of not getting paid until the after the decent. They should be paid in full before the accent. Sherpas are not Guilds they are human laden donkeys dragged into the death zone by people with a death wish carrying only his or her Oxygen bottle while the Sherpas carry the climbers the modern needs for survival and his meagre own.

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@John. Any legitimate climbing guide will pay the Sherpas regardless of whether they descend or not. If they die the money goes to their family.

Your comment that Sherpas are not guides would be considered derogatory by a Sherpa as they are very highly skilled mountaineers, often much more so than the foreign guides and always more so than the climbers. Sherpas often lay rope and check routes before anyone goes up the mountain.

Sherpas are not dragged up the mountain; they are proud of what they consider to be an honorable profession and generally it is a skill passed down through generations.

There is a difference between those who carry supplies to base camp and those going up the mountain.

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@Risky...thanks for the link. I will give it a look during lunch. Sounds like things have changed quite a bit in the past couple of decades.

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Sorry I was not trying to be dogmatic of Sherpas. It is that I would like them Paid prior to the accent so nothing can stop them from being good guilds. So if things do turn bad when some weekend worrier will not take the advice of the Sherpas Guild the Sherpas stops being the guild. Paid them first so they don't have gamble that circumstance will change and they can return to base to try for another accent. Has for Sherpas being guilds under these circumstance they are not when the weekend worrier has the upper hand orders to continue. Not all climbers are like his but there is a lot of rich people with little experience and big egos.

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