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(New Delhi TV)   Oxygen cylinders are so scarce in South Asia due to COVID that they're scrounging the summit of Everest for them   (ndtv.com) divider line
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buttercat [TotalFark]  
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2021-05-10 12:40:03 PM  
That's awful but that mess doesn't need to be cleaned up.

I feel terrible even typing that, but those trash heaps on that mountain are a blasted shame.
 
buttercat [TotalFark]  
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2021-05-10 12:42:31 PM  
*does*
 
ChipNASA  
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2021-05-10 1:31:47 PM  

buttercat: That's awful but that mess doesn't need to be cleaned up.

I feel terrible even typing that, but those trash heaps on that mountain are a blasted shame.


What about the people-cicles? 
Cannibals gotta eat too!!!

/I feel terrible even typing that
//no I don't.
///this is Fark.
 
Solty Dog  
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2021-05-10 1:35:19 PM  
Can they recycle old Nos containers?
 
Boojum2k [TotalFark]  
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2021-05-10 1:35:33 PM  
Snatch some from the stupid modern yuppie types making the trip during a pandemic.

You don't have to let them down the mountain first.
 
kbronsito  
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2021-05-10 1:41:06 PM  
But if we tie up all the oxygen cylinders to deal with Covid, we'll be defenseless against sharks.

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JK8Fan  
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2021-05-10 1:41:31 PM  
Why would anyone get a thrill from climbing Everest nowadays? How many have already been to the summit in history? Has to be thousands. I don't get the big deal. If someone were to tell me they climbed Everest, I really wouldn't be impressed. You climbed a garbage hill. Good for you.
 
Marcos P  
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2021-05-10 1:41:38 PM  
So there are piles of frozen garbage all along the frozen piles of human feces all along the mountain?
 
Ivo Shandor [TotalFark] [OhFark]  
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2021-05-10 1:42:08 PM  
The article talks about bringing back the ones used on the current hike, not salvaging old ones.

In other news, rich bastards are continuing to haul full oxygen cylinders up a mountain while poor folks die in the streets below.
 
TorpedoOrca  
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2021-05-10 1:42:32 PM  
Wait, they just toss their empties on the mountain and leave them? What happened to pack it in, pack it out?
 
Badafuco [OhFark]  
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2021-05-10 1:44:37 PM  
Why are those jackholes leaving trash up there anyway? Pack out what you pack in.

F*cking assholes.
 
2021-05-10 1:46:13 PM  
Time again
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for my favorite pic of Everest these days.   That's a LOT of oxygen bottles.
 
jaytkay [OhFark]  
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2021-05-10 1:49:07 PM  

TorpedoOrca: Wait, they just toss their empties on the mountain and leave them? What happened to pack it in, pack it out?


You think people who can afford 5-figure access fees are going to carry garbage like they're the help?

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2021-05-10 1:50:21 PM  
Fear based funeral pyres in India

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2021-05-10 1:50:58 PM  
Lets hope they actually run a hydrostatic pressure test on those cylinders before attempting to refill them. I doubt the stamped last test date is worth much after being in such a harsh environment.
 
2021-05-10 1:51:00 PM  
Are they getting refilled?
With oxygen?
 
jaytkay [OhFark]  
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2021-05-10 1:51:33 PM  

Badafuco: Why are those jackholes leaving trash up there anyway? Pack out what you pack in.

F*cking... assholes.


...iceholes.

FTFY
 
Shang-High  
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2021-05-10 1:54:05 PM  
How can anyone justify buying and using oxygen for "fun" when there are people who are there literally dying because they can't get oxygen? Farking self centered a-holes lacking all empathy and humanity.
 
morg  
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2021-05-10 1:55:58 PM  
"Leave only footprints" or the occasional corpse. These are real nature lovers.
 
2021-05-10 1:57:37 PM  
So what they're saying is, the outfitters need to tell their hired Sherpa, that they need to schlep all the client O2 bottles back to base camp.

Because there ain't no farkin' way some casual is going to be capable of carrying it down.
 
2021-05-10 2:01:12 PM  
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2021-05-10 2:09:23 PM  

jaytkay: Badafuco: Why are those jackholes leaving trash up there anyway? Pack out what you pack in.

F*cking... assholes.

...iceholes.

FTFY


Dis is fargin' war!
 
2021-05-10 2:15:51 PM  

Dr Jack Badofsky: jaytkay: Badafuco: Why are those jackholes leaving trash up there anyway? Pack out what you pack in.

F*cking... assholes.

...iceholes.

FTFY

Dis is fargin' war!


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MythDragon  
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2021-05-10 2:31:37 PM  

Solty Dog: Can they recycle old Nos containers?


Don't make me laugh.
 
wiredroach  
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2021-05-10 2:32:05 PM  

JK8Fan: Why would anyone get a thrill from ___________ nowadays?


Fill in the blanks:

visiting Paris
learning to play guitar
running a marathon
writing a novel
baking a souffle
starting a company
etc....
 
DRTFA  
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2021-05-10 2:37:29 PM  

Ivo Shandor: Dr Jack Badofsky: jaytkay: Badafuco: Why are those jackholes leaving trash up there anyway? Pack out what you pack in.

F*cking... assholes.

...iceholes.

FTFY

Dis is fargin' war!

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I'll put your bells in a sling.
 
2021-05-10 2:41:18 PM  

Shang-High: How can anyone justify buying and using oxygen for "fun" when there are people who are there literally dying because they can't get oxygen? Farking self centered a-holes lacking all empathy and humanity.


Blame the people selling the product for making it available.
 
jaytkay [OhFark]  
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2021-05-10 3:07:50 PM  

MythDragon: Solty Dog: Can they recycle old Nos containers?

Don't make me laugh.


Oh. It was a joke.
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/ Scrolls up to Funny it
 
boozehat  
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2021-05-10 3:46:29 PM  

ChipNASA: buttercat: That's awful but that mess doesn't need to be cleaned up.

I feel terrible even typing that, but those trash heaps on that mountain are a blasted shame.

What about the people-cicles? 
Cannibals gotta eat too!!!

/I feel terrible even typing that
//no I don't.
///this is Fark.


I just watched Cannibal Holocaust this weekend.  Uh... it's fairly disturbing, but well made for it's era (early 1980s)
 
Excelsior  
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2021-05-10 5:47:11 PM  

Shang-High: How can anyone justify buying and using oxygen for "fun" when there are people who are there literally dying because they can't get oxygen? Farking self centered a-holes lacking all empathy and humanity.


How can anyone justify buying helium balloons as party decorations when it's a non-renewable resource that we're rapidly running out of, and which is essential to operating medical MRI machines which help save lives?

/The overwhelming majority of people don't like being inconvenienced more than they care about the greater good.
 
2021-05-10 5:51:55 PM  
Ah it's Monday so we can scratch off the weekly Mt. Everest climbing hate thread early.
 
2021-05-10 5:54:04 PM  

Excelsior: Shang-High: How can anyone justify buying and using oxygen for "fun" when there are people who are there literally dying because they can't get oxygen? Farking self centered a-holes lacking all empathy and humanity.

How can anyone justify buying helium balloons as party decorations when it's a non-renewable resource that we're rapidly running out of, and which is essential to operating medical MRI machines which help save lives?

/The overwhelming majority of people don't like being inconvenienced more than they care about the greater good.


I actually don't buy helium balloons for this reason. Or, if they are called for - sometimes my wife overrules me, for example - we avoid the mylar ones, because they are the leading cause of power outages, somehow beating out squirrels.
 
bdub77  
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2021-05-10 5:55:32 PM  

JK8Fan: Why would anyone get a thrill from climbing Everest nowadays? How many have already been to the summit in history? Has to be thousands. I don't get the big deal. If someone were to tell me they climbed Everest, I really wouldn't be impressed. You climbed a garbage hill. Good for you.


I personally think it's a pretty cool achievement and requires a lot of preparation and training, but for me it's too expensive and yes I recognize there is a lot of waste as a result of the tourism industry there.

I try not to sh*t on someone else's dreams. I ran a marathon, but with 40,000 other people that day, and probably among millions a year. People who think marathoning is stupid never diminished my feeling of achievement. So if you want to go through the entire process and pay all that money to climb a mountain, good for you. It's not like that money doesn't go anywhere, to the pockets of locals or manufacturers of gear, etc.

But as far as adventures go, you'll never see me knocking on death's door mountain climbing or free climbing or spelunking or cave diving. F*ck that shiat.
 
2021-05-10 6:23:58 PM  
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2021-05-10 6:46:45 PM  

buttercat: That's awful but that mess doesn't need to be cleaned up.

I feel terrible even typing that, but those trash heaps on that mountain are a blasted shame.


Why really?

So that it looks nice for the other morons wanting to climb it?

Nothing lives up there.
 
DrunkenBob  
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2021-05-10 7:06:58 PM  
 
DON.MAC [TotalFark] [OhFark]  
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2021-05-10 9:10:18 PM  
The video of how people are dealing with O2 tanks scares me.

I've been waiting for some idiot to start oiling the O2 tank vales for some stupid reason and blowing something up.  I just know it will happen and I'm sort of amazed that it hasn't happened yet.  The tanks don't blow up in a bomb sort of way, they just sort of instantly go from their old size to something about the size of a phone booth.

/Oil in high pressure O2 will spontaneous combust
//Oil will find its way into a tank along the threads of the vales
///A typical tank will pulverize cinder block concrete walls into a fine powder
 
2021-05-11 10:13:50 AM  

God's Hobo Penis: Excelsior: Shang-High: How can anyone justify buying and using oxygen for "fun" when there are people who are there literally dying because they can't get oxygen? Farking self centered a-holes lacking all empathy and humanity.

How can anyone justify buying helium balloons as party decorations when it's a non-renewable resource that we're rapidly running out of, and which is essential to operating medical MRI machines which help save lives?

/The overwhelming majority of people don't like being inconvenienced more than they care about the greater good.

I actually don't buy helium balloons for this reason. Or, if they are called for - sometimes my wife overrules me, for example - we avoid the mylar ones, because they are the leading cause of power outages, somehow beating out squirrels.


Kinky?
 
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