Cho Oyu from Tingri, Tibet
From base camp
from advance base camp
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On the Cho Oyu summit looking at from right to left, the Ama Dablam group, Nuptse, Lhotse, Everest, and in the distance left of Everest, Kanchenjunga.
This high point is almost a mile from the edge of the summit plateau. Many climbers just go to the plateau.
The summit plateau
I looked over at Everest and knew it was possible. If I could get here, I could get there. Senses that stopt me were the cost, and kind of "climbers" you find on Everest.
They're NOT climbers. They're rich guys who want to brag. Before climbing season starts, in later Spring, Sherpas go up there and install thousands of feet of fixed kernmantle nylon rope line, and hack out a route with ice axes. These rich dudes follow a "trail" with jumars attached to the fixed line so if they fall, they won't die. Usually they don't have skills to get back on their feet, and require the Sherpas to haul them back to safety. It's really pathetic.
Dead bodies, or dead body parts are used as route markers. Part way up the Lhotse face, there was a Japanese climber who died. His body was the marker for where to begin the traverse across the face to the South Col and Camp IV. An avalanche broke it in half. I don't know its status now.
I could NOT walk past a dying man and not stop to help. Abandon the summit to save a life? Yes. No question. But on Everest you're supposed to do that. Walk on by. There is nothing you can do. That's not my kind of mountaineering.
Removing the bodies is a life threatening thing. Being there is life threatening.
As a youth I set some goals. Bucket list. One was to stand on a summit taller than 20,000 feet to know what that was like. In June 2003, I reached the summit of Denali.
That didn't satisfy. Denali just barely tops the mark, 20,327'. When an opportunity to climb Cho in 2011 appeared, I took it. 26,906' and its the sixth highest peak in the world. Much less climbed, like the other 8000ers than Everest.
Cleaning bodies isn't hauling them all the way down. Mostly it is kicking them so they roll and fall into a crevasse.
Everest is a junk yard. Tent remains, oxygen bottles, food containers... turds!
I took a photo of Chinese army soldiers using a turd field on the way to Base Camp.
The turd fields to Everest are gigantic, and there is one for every camp on the mountain.
Advance Base Camp on Cho Oyu
The smoke on the hillside was from Sherpas cooking a sheep
Camp I
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Camp II
You can't just walk outside your tent an go. Crevasses, cliffs... so you go to the "designated area." Or you go in your tent, bag and save it for disposal in the "designated area." There is NO modesty!
Everest is a disaster. The rich who infest it have ruined it.
Because our Fourteeners in Colorado became so popular, the hordes are ruining them too. Last few years, more than 70,000 people summited Mt Bierstadt, and Quandary Peak, and more than 50,000 summited Mt. Elbert, our tallest at 14,440'. CFI, a conservation organization, is managing the peaks with trail constuction and education to keep the peaks as wild and pristine as possible, and still accommodate the masses. So far, so good.
Summit of Mt Massive last time I was there.
Mt Massive summit July 2018
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It used to be you were polly the only people climbing the mountain. Now you are anything but alone, and it is anything but a wilderness experience.
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