OT Nepal quake triggers avalanche's on Everest

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Always admired people with the strength, courage and will to climb Everest. Likely the most devastating day in climbing history.

Prayers with the families.
 
...how about the hundreds of others that were killed who were not on Everest?
 
I'm curious how many small high elevation villagers, have faired? Nepal, Mustang, Tibet, Bhutan.......


Dozens of villages, in remote out of reach destinations, other than by foot......

I'd wager there's double the dead, in other (non-climb areas) unknownst to most.........!
 
Mattingly23NY said:
I'm curious how many small high elevation villagers, have faired? Nepal, Mustang, Tibet, Bhutan.......


Dozens of villages, in remote out of reach destinations, other than by foot......

I'd wager there's double the dead, in other (non-climb areas) unknownst to most.........!
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...oh, I'm sure the final toll will be in the thousands...I wasn't turning a blind eye to the people who perished on Everest, just pointing out that many many more died elsewhere.
 
These are the #s in today's paper.....

Over 1,500 dead.
10 killed & over 30 injured on Mt. Everest.
7.8 on the Richter scale, or about 16 times more powerful than the 2010 quake in Haiti.
Worst quake in Nepal since 1934
27.8 million residents of Nepal.
 
Sometimes, many times..lol,.... I feel - if you're going into, or volunteering to venture into dangerous territory just for the thrill of it or to satisfy your ego or brag about it......don't hold your breath waiting for rescue crews who would have to RISK THEIR LIVES and be occupied with trying to save your ass and unable to be utilized for potential others who are victims just going about their everyday business on the streets and towns of our country.

THAT's my opinion, and I'm sticking by it......and only because I know there are some here who have demonstrated an obvious bias towards me and are notorious knee jerkers....I'll also add➡ I don't give a crap about any criticism of my opinion on this matter.

Let's see how "brave" you are when you see a one or more thugs beating the crap out of, and molesting a woman 30 feet away from you.

That's all - bye bye.
 
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At least 17 killed (climbers & Sherpas included) and 61 injured are the current numbers.

Just keep in mind those folks on Everest aren't poor, having spent $30-120k for their expedition. Then there are the poor Sherpas, numbering almost 1:1 with those "rich egomaniacs". One prominent person identified was an exec with Google X.

Sounds like those figures are from base camp and the ice falls. Route to the higher elevation camps cut off, they don't know how many on up on the mountain. No idea yet what the final toll will be.

Yes there are many more affected in Katmandu...and the Nepalese depend on the Everest tourism. Massive overcrowding and shoddy building, it was a disaster waiting to happen.
 
..."accident waiting to happen"?....as opposed to being on a mountain during a massive quake?
 
yankeesince59 said:
..."accident waiting to happen"?....as opposed to being on a mountain during a massive quake?
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That's an actual quote from an earthquake preparedness conference held in Katmandu exactly a week before this quake.
 
...unfortunately, that won't be much of a comfort to the families of the deceased.
 
...like I said, that won't be much of a comfort to the families of the deceased.
 
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The tiny Nation of Mustang (Moo-Stahn-G) with its 15,000 citizens has yet to report in. With but 1 or 2 (Literally) Ham Radios, or NavSat Phones, still no word.

Mustang is on the northern Nepalese Border, while this quake seems to of tremored south to Kathmandu & Northern India.......
 
yankeesince59 said:
"10,000"?
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I clipped this from:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effects_of_the_Chernobyl_disaster


TORCH report
In 2006 German Green Party Member of the European Parliament Rebecca Harms commissioned two UK scientists for an alternate report (TORCH, The Other Report on CHernobyl) in response to the UN report. The report included areas not covered by the Chernobyl forum report, and also lower radiation doses. It predicted about 30,000 to 60,000 excess cancer deaths and warned that predictions of excess cancer deaths strongly depend on the risk factor used, and urged more research stating that large uncertainties made it difficult to properly assess the full scale of the disaster. This report is not free of controversy, and has been accused of trying to maximize the consequences of the accident.


Greenpeace
Demonstration on Chernobyl day near WHO in Geneva
Greenpeace claimed contradictions in the Chernobyl Forum reports, quoting a 1998 WHO study referenced in the 2005 report, which projected 212 dead from 72,000 liquidators. In its report, Greenpeace suggested there will be 270,000 cases of cancer attributable to Chernobyl fallout, and that 93,000 of these will probably be fatal, but state in their report that "The most recently published figures indicate that in Belarus, Russia and Ukraine alone the accident could have resulted in an estimated 200,000 additional deaths in the period between 1990 and 2004." Blake Lee-Harwood, campaigns director at Greenpeace, believes that cancer was likely to be the cause of less than half of the final fatalities and that "intestinal problems, heart and circulation problems, respiratory problems, endocrine problems, and particularly effects on the immune system," will also cause fatalities. However, concern has been expressed about the methods used in compiling the
 
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