Well done!!
fredjacksonsan
05-30-2006, 03:46 PM
Good for this guy!!
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://go.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=oddlyEnoughNews&storyID=12355350&src=rss/oddlyEnoughNews)
Hah, he worked 8,850 M (29,035 feet) feet for it, I say let him enjoy it.
Yes, I know they usually start above 8000 feet.
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://go.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=oddlyEnoughNews&storyID=12355350&src=rss/oddlyEnoughNews)
Hah, he worked 8,850 M (29,035 feet) feet for it, I say let him enjoy it.
Yes, I know they usually start above 8000 feet.
thecackster
05-30-2006, 04:05 PM
haha....who does that...
Jet-Lee
05-30-2006, 04:15 PM
I would, in a heartbeat.
2.2 Straight six
05-30-2006, 04:41 PM
ha ha that rocks. nothing like showing the whole world what you've got. pretty funny. i think i'd get thrown in jail for doing that kind of thing here.
sv650s
05-30-2006, 06:24 PM
eh...i wouldn't do that, wouldn't wanna get frostbite "down there"
Broke_as_****
05-30-2006, 06:37 PM
ha ha that rocks. nothing like showing the whole world what you've got. pretty funny. i think i'd get thrown in jail for doing that kind of thing here.
Considering how cold it gets up there with the wind chill, I imagine there wasn't much for the world to see. But kudos to a seriously tough dude.
Considering how cold it gets up there with the wind chill, I imagine there wasn't much for the world to see. But kudos to a seriously tough dude.
beef_bourito
05-30-2006, 07:16 PM
looks like someone isn't having kids, that cold is enough to freeze your....... well you all know where i'm going with that.
RickwithaTbird
05-30-2006, 07:41 PM
^^ yea man...
I think its bullshit. Unless his genitalia is all dead. 3 minutes?? yeah right. It would only take 30 seconds to get permenant frostbite damage up there.
I think its bullshit. Unless his genitalia is all dead. 3 minutes?? yeah right. It would only take 30 seconds to get permenant frostbite damage up there.
Oz
05-30-2006, 07:42 PM
It would make an interesting photo, having your testicles hiding up around your neck somewhere.
crayzayjay
05-30-2006, 07:44 PM
Gimme a break. Don't these guys pee on "the goddess mother"?
beef_bourito
05-30-2006, 07:50 PM
no, they get it in a jar and once a week they bring it down to the local village and throw it at them in water balloons.
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