Everest?

[RaccoonFace]

Anyone ever consider it? I've been poking around, and I found this:

http://www.panoramas.dk/fullscreen2/full22.html

Don't know if I need to go anymore...

okbye

[KennyG]

I thought you meant skiing the 29K feet of verticle. That would be great!

[kipfer]

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/everest/climb/ assuming that you could somehow ski the Kumbu ice fall that would be from 29000 to 17700 a vertical of 11300 feet. a bit more than the easily skied, snow permitting, biggest lift-served vertical in the Alps 2800 meters, 9200 feet, the Vallee Blanche -Mer de Glace. Don't ski it alone and don't ski it without a guide unless you are competent at a crevass self rescue with aid.

[ak_powder_monkey]

Next year I'm gonna hit it switcch and ride into the road

[coJibbin]

Next year I'm gonna hit it switcch and ride into the road

Nice- Jamie Pierre, High Life

[k2pow]

dont ski everstr its a waste of time i skied 2 years ago and it wasnt enjoyable. but now i can say i have skied everst and u havent ..JONG

[steve]

Don't ski it alone and don't ski it without a guide unless you are competent at a crevass self rescue with aid.

if you have to tell him thait, he definitely should NOT do everest


...everest is not rainier

[crashnburn'd]

I thought you meant skiing the 29K feet of verticle.

So you're planning on skiing all the way out of Nepal, through Bangladesh and then onto the ocean? 29035 ft does not mean 29035 ft of vertical.

[kipfer]

http://www.bergadventures.com/cyber/...v_0906_45.html
If you've got to wear all that stuff and an oxygen mask and then take off the skis to make it through the ice fall, forget it.
Of course that's not the worst part. The worst part is paying for it.
If you want glacier without climbing much for it, Chamonix- Vallee Blanche or even Grandes Motets or Pontricina-the Diavoleza skiing the Pers island Ice Fall and Morteratsch glacier sure are a lot cheaper.

[Brock Landers]

So you're planning on skiing all the way out of Nepal, through Bangladesh and then onto the ocean? 29035 ft does not mean 29035 ft of vertical.

Nerd Alert: And a lot of Bangladesh is under sea level (like New Orleans). Hence, gigantic killer floods.

[Tuckerman]

Anyone ever consider it? I've been poking around, and I found this:

http://www.panoramas.dk/fullscreen2/full22.html

Don't know if I need to go anymore...

okbye

Have fun man and sorry about your face.

[leroy jenkins]

I have absolutly no desire to climb everest. Skiing Denali would be a far more enjoyable trip in my opinion.

[TeleHoar]

Hmmmm
Everist.
1 out of every 8 climbers DIE.

Gotta like them odds!

[0BernhardFranz]

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/everest/climb/ assuming that you could somehow ski the Kumbu ice fall that would be from 29000 to 17700 a vertical of 11300 feet. a bit more than the easily skied, snow permitting, biggest lift-served vertical in the Alps 2800 meters, 9200 feet, the Vallee Blanche -Mer de Glace. Don't ski it alone and don't ski it without a guide unless you are competent at a crevass self rescue with aid.

You need no rescue after that crevasse.Don´t do it without guide and don´t do it with guide.Now the glacier is melting and the snow bridges have gone.It is the past.

[0BernhardFranz]

I trained with Ja Ko expedition in 91 Winter ascent - then somehow they could not extend permit I hadto little gear or whatever I was kicked out after 1 month.I was ready to go but out of money.I would have gone alone.All I can tell you is this: DON´T GO !!!!

[0BernhardFranz]

If you go tell me I work with very experienced people.

DO IT !! IF YOU GO TELL ME I CAN MAKE IT SAVER !!!

[kipfer]

Actually there is usually at most about a two week window for sking the alps glaciers all the way to the valley. I imagine right now the glaciers could only be traversed with great difficulty or maybe a guide team with fixed ropes and ladders.
We might just get all the early World Cup events here in colorado. I hear that they've been trying to foam insulate glaciers in the Alps.
It's dumping with blizzard conditions right now here, hopefully tomorrow will be a powder day.