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https://twitter.com/Reuters/status/1238457282817675266 Bad news if you were hoping to use the lack of folks going outside as an excuse to enjoy some recreation
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There is a Chinese summit attempt about to start. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-52157968
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First COVID-19 patient to summit Everest. I honestly would not be surprised if someone tried.
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First summit in the Chinese Century
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ZombieLenin posted:First COVID-19 patient to summit Everest. I honestly would not be surprised if someone tried. First summit with a ventilator hell yea
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Considering that covid-19 can cause permanent lung damage, sounds like a great plan for summitting a mountain where there isn't enough air to survive.
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It is just the new way to hide the Covid-19 deaths. Instead their death certificate will say mountaineering accident so they can pretend it isn’t as bad as it actually is.
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Several hundred thousand attempting the summit seems reckless.
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the chinese government has declared no new deaths on mt everest
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For those with reduced lung capacity, achieving an altitude of 9,029 ft now counts as summiting.
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photoshopping people onto everest will be a new premium sevrice
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Aren’t there already terrible hygiene problems on Everest? I don’t know how long the virus survives in the cold, but it seems reckless to find out.
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Platystemon posted:Aren’t there already terrible hygiene problems on Everest? As a not-actually-alive virus, freezing temps could theoretically keep it live for years, and fecal matter is a large potential vector for it which is to say, lol
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Platystemon posted:Aren’t there already terrible hygiene problems on Everest? Temperatures at Everest base camp go from about freezing at night to 60 degrees F in the day during the climbing months of April/May so it's not really very cold
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drat, it's more extreme than that here right now, I should get some sort of medal.
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Ursine Catastrophe posted:As a not-actually-alive virus, freezing temps could theoretically keep it live for years, and fecal matter is a large potential vector for it Up to two years according to related coronavirus studies!
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Oracle posted:Up to two years according to related coronavirus studies! Great! So going forward the whole summiting with or without oxygen distinction could be replaced by “with or without COVID.”
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The first person to summit while actively encouraging covid infection by thawing out a 6 ft diameter of snow and ice around them
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Just sitting up there on the summit, blocking it off because nobody can approach within 6 ft to make you move
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Captain Hygiene posted:Just sitting up there on the summit, blocking it off because nobody can approach within 6 ft to make you move In the future photos of the traffic jams trying to summit will also show the tape strips placed 6 feet apart that have now become part of the normal Sherpa line fixing at the beginning of the climbing season. Also, people will now be patted on the back for observing social distancing rules when completely ignore other climbers in distress.
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Indian and Chinese troops have a punch-up at 4000m
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spiffy:quote:Mount Everest is Visible From Kathmandu, Nepal for First Time in Living Memory https://snowbrains.com/everest-visible-kathmandu-nepal-first-time/
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Nature is healing
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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jun/06/everyone-is-in-that-fine-line-between-death-and-life-inside-everests-deadliest-queue You can't properly enjoy the summit because of all the corpses you had to pass by. ![]()
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whenever this thread updates my heart grows three sizes
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Doc Fission posted:whenever this thread updates my heart grows three sizes Altitude sickness, be careful out there.
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Will coronavirus be preserved as well as green boots’ green boots
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Varkk posted:It is just the new way to hide the Covid-19 deaths. Instead their death certificate will say mountaineering accident so they can pretend it isn’t as bad as it actually is. All these octogenarian mountaineers.
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# ? May 23, 2025 00:27 |
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We're getting complaints about this thread, presumably because of the tone of the OP. I've rebooted it for you, dear friends. https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3933688 Since this thread started in GBS I'll put it to rest in the GBS Graveyard.
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