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Old 06-21-2012, 10:59 PM   #1
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All this talk of "hiking permits/licenses"....
and this article comes out....

Assault at 25,500 feet: Mount Everest climber allegedly attacked by authorities for not having permit
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Old 06-21-2012, 11:01 PM   #2
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Old 06-21-2012, 11:34 PM   #3
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You gotta have a ticket to ride..mountain justice. Seriously though did anybody else catch that he weilded his ice axe! There may be more to this story, anybody crazy enough to try to solo everest without a permit is probably crazy enough to do other things. Not to mention this hiker was putting everyone's life in jeopardy on the mountain as well.
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You gotta have a ticket to ride..mountain justice. Seriously though did anybody else catch that he weilded his ice axe! There may be more to this story, anybody crazy enough to try to solo everest without a permit is probably crazy enough to do other things. Not to mention this hiker was putting everyone's life in jeopardy on the mountain as well.
I would suspect Chinese/Tibetan relations also played a role.
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Old 06-22-2012, 07:07 PM   #5
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"He's not killed, they beat him only."

What. The. F. Sometimes you forget how nice it is here. Imagine camping to close to a lean to and DEC just starts dive bombing your tent with clubs. Nice.
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"He's not killed, they beat him only."

What. The. F. Sometimes you forget how nice it is here. Imagine camping to close to a lean to and DEC just starts dive bombing your tent with clubs. Nice.
As Edelpeddle suggests, there is probably more to it. Imagine the violator in your example was a a Soviet citizen the year after the USSR annexed New York, and that his compatriots had recently jailed or killed your favorite clergymen, closed down your churches (if that applies), and put Lake Placid under martial law. I am not suggesting the described behavior is justified, but there may be a broader context to consider in coming to terms with this report.
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Old 06-22-2012, 08:43 PM   #7
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Soviet citizen the year after the USSR annexed New York, and that his compatriots had recently jailed or killed your favorite clergymen, closed down your churches (if that applies), and put Lake Placid under martial law.
Did anyone else get a RED DAWN flashback from this....Wolverines!
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Did anyone else get a RED DAWN flashback from this....Wolverines!
Never saw the flick. I was going for a plausible home-soil example, but without citing our Canadian friends and their notoriously aggressive expansionist ambitions.

As the CIA director in Burn after Reading (that one I saw) said: "The Russians?"
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Old 06-26-2012, 07:59 PM   #9
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I wish I was the greatest mountaineer in the world so I could skip Everest and laugh at all the fools that climb it these days. I find that whole scene nasty business. I would rather climb any peak in the ADK's with a friend then get guided up that.
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