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Well, it's happened.

Posted: Thu Jun 02, 2005 9:12 pm
by Delphine
<a href=http://everestnews.com/stories2005/ever ... 05.htm>You can get to the top of Everest in a helicopter.</a> I wonder how long it will take for a Hilton and a McDonalds to show up.

Posted: Thu Jun 02, 2005 9:14 pm
by DarkPrime
Starbuck's probably owns land up there already.

Posted: Thu Jun 02, 2005 9:16 pm
by Delphine
The skibunnies need their white mocha lattes, after all.

Posted: Thu Jun 02, 2005 9:20 pm
by Locit
Well, there went my dreams of being a sherpa.

Posted: Thu Jun 02, 2005 9:21 pm
by DarkPrime
More tourists means more food for the Yetis.

Posted: Thu Jun 02, 2005 11:14 pm
by Ancient
Hillary's gonna be pissed.

Posted: Thu Jun 02, 2005 11:20 pm
by Delphine
Huh?

Posted: Thu Jun 02, 2005 11:25 pm
by Ancient
Sir Edmund Hillary. First guy to climb the damn thing (and only notable thing he ever did, despite what he may tell you).

When your nation sticks him on the $5 note, you're basically forced to remember him.

Posted: Thu Jun 02, 2005 11:34 pm
by Delphine
Ah. I probably should have googled it.

Posted: Thu Jun 02, 2005 11:37 pm
by Ancient
And get nude pics of Hillary Clinton?

Lets not forget that the internet is American dominated, with no room for us little 'insignificant' countries.

Posted: Thu Jun 02, 2005 11:39 pm
by Delphine
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<a href=http://www.google.com/search?client=saf ... F-8>Google everest Hillary</a> and you get, oddly enough, Sir Edmund Hillary. Google plain Hillary and he's the fifth result. Reaching the top of Everest was kind of a big deal for everyone.

Posted: Thu Jun 02, 2005 11:43 pm
by Ancient
Edit: Fuck I'm blind and retarded concerning google today.

Posted: Fri Jun 03, 2005 1:29 am
by Green Gibbon!
I sleptwalked to the top of Everest, once. I was having a pretty weird dream at the time.

Posted: Fri Jun 03, 2005 3:58 am
by Nakasan_UKG
Yeah, sleep mountain climbing appears to be an ever increasing problem here in the UK. The only thing that seems to link one case to another is the fact they all have, as you had, a weird dream. Ever thought of giving up your body to medical science? You die instantly but get paid SHIT loads!!

Posted: Fri Jun 03, 2005 5:24 am
by Baba O'Reily
This just ruins everything.

Posted: Fri Jun 03, 2005 5:16 pm
by Brazillian Cara
Is it even phisically possible? It must be a military copter.

Posted: Fri Jun 03, 2005 6:19 pm
by Squirrelknight
Meh, I'll be impressed when they put an escalator on the side of the mountain.

Posted: Fri Jun 03, 2005 10:04 pm
by Delphine
Brazillian Cara wrote:Is it even phisically possible? It must be a military copter.
Watch the video.

Posted: Tue Jun 07, 2005 11:55 pm
by The Scarlet Scorpion
Given this developement, I'll bet dollars to donuts that James Bond is seen at Everest's top in his next movie (in the pre-titles sequence, more than likely).

Personally, I think that's cheating, but then I also think that using a powdered cocoa mix to make hot chocolate is cheating, too.

And, technically speaking, Hillary didn't reach the top of Mount Everest first; it was actually his Sherpa guide, the late Tenzing Norgei. But Hillary led the exposition, and thus is generally (and falsely) considered to have reached it first (much like how the first airplane was flown in 1901 by the Wright Brothers' aviantion consultant Gustav Whitehead, but since the W.B. got their flight on film, and Whitehead died in a glider accident in 1908, the spoils of history went to someone more promient).

I was raised on PBS, what can I say?