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Lynne Leichtfuss
Trad climber
Will know soon
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Apr 26, 2015 - 07:55pm PT
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Jan, thanks so much for the update, and again, thanks. L.
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zBrown
Ice climber
Brujò de la Playa
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Apr 26, 2015 - 08:00pm PT
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Reaching into the 1906 San Francisco zone (7.9 about 3000 deaths) now.
Buildings probably comparable too.
-Mother Nature
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climbski2
Mountain climber
Anchorage AK, Reno NV
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Apr 26, 2015 - 08:17pm PT
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So sorry Apogee
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Apr 26, 2015 - 08:39pm PT
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Me as well, Apogee. Friends are hard to come by, acquaintances a dime a dozen. My condolence for your loss.
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crankster
Trad climber
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Apr 26, 2015 - 08:47pm PT
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Sorry about your friend, Apogee.
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crankster
Trad climber
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Apr 26, 2015 - 08:51pm PT
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Fritz
Trad climber
Choss Creek, ID
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Apr 26, 2015 - 09:16pm PT
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I appreciate that many of you have already linked to the Everest Avalanche video, but this one on youtube is the first link that worked for me.
Scary!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JC_wIWUC2U
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zBrown
Ice climber
Brujò de la Playa
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Apr 26, 2015 - 09:19pm PT
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This is the one mentioned above a couple of times. Starts out innocently enough.
[Click to View YouTube Video]
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Jan
Mountain climber
Colorado, Nepal & Okinawa
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Topic Author's Reply - Apr 26, 2015 - 09:23pm PT
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The best video footage I've seen so far is on canadanepal.net which I didn't even know existed until today.
This video shows how the army and police were digging people out of the wreckage by hand all through the night with nothing more than their bare hands.
http://www.canadanepalprogram.info/2015/04/nepal-earthquake-intense-rescue-effort.html
The army and police seem to be the only Nepalese government officials anywhere to be seen. People are bound to get angry at some point and it will be interesting to see the political outcome of that.
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Apr 26, 2015 - 09:28pm PT
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hey there say, jan...
oh my... i was afraid of this... barehand work, only...
and by not enough folks to get much more done, than the 'tip of the iceberg saying' ... :(
thanks for sharing... :)
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cleo
Social climber
wherever you go, there you are
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Apr 26, 2015 - 09:35pm PT
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According to the USGS, losses are likely to be in the tens of thousands based on population exposure to shaking and the type of construction.
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WBraun
climber
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Apr 26, 2015 - 09:45pm PT
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They barely have any resources to handle some of these confined space rescues.
They just dig people out and grab em hoping they do not incur more damge to a persons injuries.
no backboards c-collars etc,
Grim humanitarian nightmare display of suffering and disaster.
It's going on all over the planet simultaneously.
And all while on this forum you hear people bragging about their economic developments.
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Kalimon
Social climber
Ridgway, CO
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Apr 26, 2015 - 10:02pm PT
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F*#k!
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Jan
Mountain climber
Colorado, Nepal & Okinawa
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Topic Author's Reply - Apr 26, 2015 - 11:10pm PT
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This just in from a Spanish woman who has been a Buddhist nun for more than 40 years and is living in Thame, to the west of Namche.
" we had a very frightening time. about 90 per cent of the houses in thangme and so forth have collapsed. a few inthe gompa itself also gone. we spent the night camping in afield but as always with sherpas joking and laughing a lot and also doing many prayers.
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philo
Trad climber
Is that the light at the end of the tunnel or a tr
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Apr 26, 2015 - 11:39pm PT
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Thank you Jan for your contributions to this thread. Your knowledge and connections make you an invaluable resource.
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Vegasclimber
Trad climber
Las Vegas, NV.
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Apr 27, 2015 - 12:17am PT
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Wish I could be there to help :( tickets are a bit out of my reach right now though at 5k.
Seems like these folks get the crap end of the stick way too often.
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Apr 27, 2015 - 12:48am PT
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hey there say, cleo...
thank you so much for sharing...
thank you...
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Don Paul
Big Wall climber
Mexico City, D.F.
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Apr 27, 2015 - 04:41am PT
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Plane ticket to Delhi should still be doable under $1k. Could go to a half dozen hardware stores, buy 50 shovels, hire a van to the Nepal border, and organize the first tourist brigade, for only a small fraction of what a guided trip to the summit of Everest would cost. ($50k+) They probably need gas generators and medical supplies too.
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David Hammerbeck
Mountain climber
Fremont, CA
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Apr 27, 2015 - 08:19am PT
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Anybody know about climbers/trekkers in the Buddhi Gandaki and other areas, like the Marysangdi, around Manaslu? That was the closest to the epicenter, along with the less visited Ganesh Himal .... I have yet to hear anything. Those little villages - Arughat Bazaar, Lokpa, Samdo, and others must be absolutely devastated.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Apr 27, 2015 - 08:25am PT
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Nice intentions, Vegas, but I think we both know that they need well equiped urban rescue
units and, most importantly, heavy equipment and mobile hospitals that only the US
military can provide. BTW, where the hell is the US? Up here in Canada there's a lot of
hand-wringing going on and the government is sending a 25 person rescue team. Better
than nothing, but only just.
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