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Salut,

Era mai bine sa fi trimis linkul, sa vedem si pozele. Oricum 4 oameni din 600 (sub 1%) este un procent foarte bun pt everest. Atasez si linkurile cu stirea:
http://theonlinephotographer.typepad.com/the_online_photographer/2012/06/random-excellence-ralf-dujmovits.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/may/30/everest-mountaineer-crowding-hobby-tragedy#

Andrei Holban

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Every now and again some remarkable picture, eloquent and unusual,

makes its way around the world. One of the latest is this one, showing

human overcrowding on Mount Everest, the world's highest mountain. It

was taken by Ralf Dujmovits, an experienced mountaineer who had turned

back from the summit of Everest because of dangerous conditions, only

to be "astounded and horrified" by the site of this long queue of

tourist or hobby climbers trudging upwards.



He says the sight gave him the "oppressive feeling that some of the

people in the picture would soon be dead." Four of them were. Others

ended up crowding the hospitals of Kathmandu being treated for

hypothermia and frostbite.



Dujmovits describes the craze to ascend Everest at any cost a "mass

hysteria," and has pleaded with the Nepalese government for stricter

regulations.



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Dujmovits via The Online Photographer by Michael Johnston on 6/14/12



Photo by Ralf Dujmovits



Every now and again some remarkable picture, eloquent and unusual,

makes its way around the world. One of the latest is this one, showing

human overcrowding on Mount Everest, the world's highest mountain. It

was taken by Ralf Dujmovits, an experienced mountaineer who had turned

back from the summit of Everest because of dangerous conditions, only

to be "astounded and horrified" by the site of this long queue of

tourist or hobby climbers trudging upwards.



He says the sight gave him the "oppressive feeling that some of the

people in the picture would soon be dead." Four of them were. Others

ended up crowding the hospitals of Kathmandu being treated for

hypothermia and frostbite.



Dujmovits describes the craze to ascend Everest at any cost a "mass

hysteria," and has pleaded with the Nepalese government for stricter

regulations.



Kate Connolly wrote about the picture and the photographer at The

Guardian.



Mike



P. S. As regular readers know, I'm a big fan of outstanding nonfiction

writing. Mountaineering boasts an extensive literature, the excellence

of which might account in part for those long lines on Everest

(although most of us are content to remain armchair adventurers). Two

of the very best books of the genre that I can heartily recommend are

British climber Joe Simpson's 1988 book Touching the Void, an

absolutely gripping biographical account of a near-disaster that will

have you on the edge of your aforementioned armchair; I'll just warn

you, don't start this one unless you have time to finish it. It was an

extraordinary worldwide bestseller (here's the U. K. link). More

pertinent to this photograph is of course Jon Krakauer's extraordinary

Into Thin Air, a first-person account of the events of May 1996 on

Everest by a man who started out as a journalist (for Outdoor magazine)

who meant to write an article about an ascent, and who ended up being

one of the primary participants in an appalling disaster that made news

all over the globe. The book has one of the most disturbingly unsettled

endings in literature, which is of course very appopriate; the new

edition linked here contains an account of the ongoing controversy and

Krakauer's continued struggles with the ghosts of his past. Undoubtedly

one of the greatest mountaineering books ever, and among the true

masterpieces of nonfiction literature of recent decades. Not to be

missed (although Touching the Void is a shorter, easier, and, in terms

of its ending, more satisfying read).



At least read the short book description of Into Thin Air at Amazon.



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Featured Comment by John Nollendorfs: "This picture from the Chilkoot

Pass during the Klondike gold rush is much more interesting! At least

those fools were after something tangible, like gold!"



Featured Comment by Darin Boville: "Tilted image? Sure looks like it to

me."



Featured Comment by expiring_frog: "To address the question of 'why,' I

strongly recommend Rob Macfarlane's book Mountains of the Mind, an

eminently readable cultural history of how climbing mountains captured

the public imagination. Two other classics worth mentioning are Maurice

Herzog's Annapurna, possibly the most famous mountaineering book ever

(about the first ascent of an 8000m peak and subsequent horrific

retreat), and Reinhold Messner's The Crystal Horizon (first solo

Everest climb, without oxygen). Messner's climb is particularly

pertinent because he was the only person on the mountain that day, with

only his girlfriend and a liaison officer at base camp, the polar

opposite of the current tourist logjam."



Featured Comment by Peter: "As a climber myself I have always advocated

that Everest should have the top 500 meters blown off by a big bomb.

Then K2 would be the highest mountain in the world and you cannot drag

tourists up there!"



Featured Comment by Avi Joshi: "Being a Nepalese, this makes me sad.

Sadder still to think that no regulation change is likely to happen

when the country is in such a political disarray."



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