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.
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eric3579Check out the video in this article. http://www.jonkeverest.org/blog/2015/04/26/Everest-Earthquake-Avalanche-Aftermath-Photos.aspx
also before you donate https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/18mYPr4zIl4zzUrKdrfe0hECRrWFumnke-dUWsxucZQw/htmlview?sle=true
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SFOGuyThank you!
Good to have stuff.
Check out the video in this article. http://www.jonkeverest.org/blog/2015/04/26/Everest-Earthquake-Avalanche-Aftermath-Photos.aspx
also before you donate https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/18mYPr4zIl4zzUrKdrfe0hECRrWFumnke-dUWsxucZQw/htmlview?sle=true
eric3579Put together a few pictures from when i was in Nepal. Long time ago. It's a beautiful country. Just though i'd share. http://imgur.com/a/LOsiy#0
eric3579It was the ice cliff in this picture which came down it seems
http://jaggedglobe.com/i/9209.jpg
also for a better appreciation of size
http://www.mountainguides.com/photos/everest-south/bc-looking-north-pumori_es.jpg
SFOGuyOh no. That's horrifying.
Thank you for the posts.
It was the ice cliff in this picture which came down it seems
http://jaggedglobe.com/i/9209.jpg
also for a better appreciation of size
http://www.mountainguides.com/photos/everest-south/bc-looking-north-pumori_es.jpg
SFOGuyMeaning; it didn't occur to me that Nepal/Everest WAS earthquake country--but in places like California, one generally takes care not to sleep with things secured over the headboard of the bed and you bolt things to the wall (bookcases)---to camp in the slide zone of an ice cliff in such a region might give one pause...
It was the ice cliff in this picture which came down it seems
http://jaggedglobe.com/i/9209.jpg
also for a better appreciation of size
http://www.mountainguides.com/photos/everest-south/bc-looking-north-pumori_es.jpg
lucky760Holy crap. Horrible what's happened and happening to the natives there.
Just brings to mind what I just saw on Vice the other night about how the $10 billion that was donated toward relief for the quake in Haiti and how that was a big money grab for developers who used the money to build soccer stadiums and zero homes, and all the people who were affected by the quake are still homeless with no electricity or plumbing, dying of cholera.
Makes donating seem like a bad idea.
SFOGuyI gave to Oxfam through the PayPal link...They are pretty credible---no hint of scandal in their operations, as far as I know.
Medicin Sans Frontiers (Doctors Without Borders) isn't on the PayPal link but I'm also a fan of them. And there seem to be other, credible people and organizations . I hope. Because those poor folks are gonna need help.
Holy crap. Horrible what's happened and happening to the natives there.
Just brings to mind what I just saw on Vice the other night about how the $10 billion that was donated toward relief for the quake in Haiti and how that was a big money grab for developers who used the money to build soccer stadiums and zero homes, and all the people who were affected by the quake are still homeless with no electricity or plumbing, dying of cholera.
Makes donating seem like a bad idea.
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