A new type of danger of Everest

[Tough_Boots]

Here's a little hiking workers' revolt for May Day ;)

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldne ... urers.html

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... erpas.html

[Jim]

One of them was probably nude. ;)

[mazatzal]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... erest.html

[Alston_Neal]

I can't imagine what it takes to piss off a 100 sherpas.

[kingsnake]

The sherpas asked the climbers to wait, were ignored, ice was kicked onto them (whether on purpose or not), and things escalated from there. Fundamental problem is Everest is Camelback with more elevation and snow ...

[Alston_Neal]

Yeah I read that and I know it's a freeway up there, but I still can't help but wonder if there's more underlining stuff.
Well aside from the typical Euro trash aspect....

[SuperstitionGuy]

I can't imagine what it takes to piss off a 100 sherpas.

One European?

[Alston_Neal]

@SuperstitionGuy

[Jim]

Seems these guys were "elite" climbers (hikers) and even their retreat was a source of bragging; it took them 2.5 hours to do what takes a mortal man all day. I think this was a case of arrogance and a sense of elite entitlement irritating the locals. Who, probably having their fill of these types by the nature of the mountain they work on, went beyond the boiling point when a few who felt they were better than everyone else refused to wait and used gear which was not their own. Plus, they weren't even paying for guides!

The Sherpas claimed the three solo Alpinists had ignored their request for them not to climb over their ropes until they had finished fixing the route for guided expedition groups.

Some people get really, really angry about their ropes. A few years ago when coming down from the lower Saddle on the Grand Teton, I was not using, not leaning on, not even doing anything more than looking at an installed rope and saying something like, "why not just use these ropes to rappel and not have to down climb". They were installed for the season by what I assume was a guiding service for the purpose of having their paying customers do exactly what I had just proposed, when their "owner" over heard me as he was escorting some tourist climbers up. He flipped out, and started screaming at me to leaving his fu***** ropes alone, they weren't mine, they were his, and people needed to leave them alone. Now, if he hadn't been there, nothing would have happened, and no one would have known anything, but he happened to be. In a National Park, on public land you would think that people would expect people to use an installed rope, left in place for the season, but apparently people think they can bolt stuff up and no one will touch it. Perhaps there was some of that going on here.