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Naked on Everest: a peek on the peak?
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| El Kay Dee |
| quote: | Naked on Everest: a peek on the peak?
Sat May 27, 2006 11:33 AM ET
KATHMANDU (Reuters) - The head of the Nepal Mountaineering Association urged the government Saturday to take action against a sherpa who reportedly stripped on top of Mount Everest.
The Himalayan Times had reported Friday that the Nepali climbing guide, whose name it gave as Lakpa Tharke, stood naked for three minutes in freezing conditions on the 29,035-foot summit of the world's highest peak.
If confirmed, he would be the first person known to have stripped atop Everest, considered by Nepali Buddhists as a god.
Ang Tshering Sherpa, head of Nepal's top mountaineering body, said he could not confirm that the incident had happened.
"But if he did it, it is very shocking because Sagarmatha is the goddess mother," he said, using the mountain's Nepali name.
"The government must enforce strict ethics for climbing."
Authorities have yet to comment.
But the climb's organizers seemed happy enough with Lakpa Thaeke's strip.
"We are planning to file his extraordinary feat for the Guinness Book of World Records," the paper quoted an official of the hiking group that employs Tharke as saying.
At least 1,345 people have climbed Everest since 1953 from either the Nepali or Tibetan side. |
http://today.reuters.com/news/newsa...EST.xml&src=rss |
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| infinity HiGH |
the sort of news i'd expect from lkd
lol |
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| El Kay Dee |
| quote: | Originally posted by infinity HiGH
the sort of news i'd expect from lkd
lol |
i plan on goin atop skybar and strippin...be the first person to ever be naked atop the guv.....then the clubbers will consider me a god |
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| MLB |
| quote: | Originally posted by El Kay Dee
i plan on goin atop skybar and strippin...be the first person to ever be naked atop the guv.....then the clubbers will consider me a god |
already done by someone else at skybar |
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| vickyvale |
| quote: | Originally posted by El Kay Dee
atop |
lol
| quote: | Originally posted by MLB
already done by someone else at skybar |
O'rly? |
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| MLB |
| quote: | Originally posted by vickyvale
lol
O'rly? |
yeah
lol i saw it somewhere on shayas pics , think maybe lawler last year or so, i just never hang out at skybar until its friday nights |
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| Endlesswave |
| quote: | Originally posted by MLB
yeah
lol i saw it somewhere on shayas pics , think maybe lawler last year or so, i just never hang out at skybar until its friday nights |
Plz tell me it was a chick that had done this? Seen one too many guys naked @ clubs *cough*systemfrontroom*cough*.:nervous: |
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| Euphorica |
| LOL that would own! |
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| Jem_hadar |
honeslty, who the cares if ur stripping on everest. jesus, ppl worry about too much ...
(this being directed at the ppl concerned about the "ethics" of this in the article quoted) |
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| MLB |
| quote: | Originally posted by Jem_hadar
honeslty, who the cares if ur stripping on everest. jesus, ppl worry about too much ...
(this being directed at the ppl concerned about the "ethics" of this in the article quoted) |
well someone cared enough to write it and publish it and you actually read it:D |
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| Jem_hadar |
| quote: | Originally posted by MLB
well someone cared enough to write it and publish it and you actually read it:D |
i was more referring to the someone feeling that they need to enact and enforce "ethical Everest mountain climbing standards" part
thats the part that is flabergasting me! :eek: |
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