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The Nepalese 7.9 earthquake also wiped out the Everest camps

submitted by SFOGuy

8 years 11 months 4 weeks ago

Part of an international climbing team---they felt the ground shaking and for the first 16 seconds, it almost sounds like they found it novel, interesting, perhaps funny/exciting---then he looked over his shoulder up the hill and the outright fear, the shift in tone...the folks and tents further up the mountain must have never had a chance. NSFW because of NSFL---

Sad. 17 died. The base camp was at 16,500 feet (? over 5000 meters)---hard to even breath at level for most people, let alone dig out the surviving climbers.

The Nepalese have suffered enormously as well; more than 2200 dead and counting.

This is gonna sound nuts, but there are two ways someone can help here if they want to:

1) With time and effort, but no money; help the openstreetmap people map the streets in and out of Katmandu and other places so that the relief workers/help convoys know where to go and how to get there; otherwise, it's all too easy for a convoy to find, you can't get there from here:

http://hot.openstreetmap.org/updates/2015-04-26_hot_activates_for_nepal_response_report_2

2) Give money with minimum overhead stripped out through PayPal-sanctioned charities...
https://www.paypal-donations.com/pp-charity/web.us/campaign.jsp?cid=35

The average Nepalese's income is less than $500/year. Not a month---a year---even a little bit is going to go a long way.

It's something.