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MtnGoat
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 Tue May 09, 2017 8:42 pm |
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| Quote: | | Everyone knows that climbing Mount Everest is not easy, but it’s also not cheap.
Foreign climbers who want to scale the 8,848 metre (29,030 foot) peak must pay the Nepalese government £8,000 to gain a permit.
But this South African adventurer wanted the glory of scaling the world’s highest mountain without having to fork out the cash to do it.
Sadly, for Ryan Sean Davy, 43, who had climbed alone as far as camp two, which is 6,400 metres (21,000 feet) high, he was rumbled — after being caught hiding in a cave.
“I saw him alone near base camp so I approached him and he ran away,” said Gyanendra Shresth, the government liason officer at base camp.
“I followed him with my friend and found him hiding in a cave nearby,” he told AFP. “He had set up camp in an isolated place to avoid government officials.”
On Facebook, Davy later wrote: “This news is probably going to make a lot of people upset with me and I really hope you’ll all forgive me.” |
Well, he gave it a shot...
Diplomacy is the art of saying 'Nice doggie' until you can find a rock. - Will Rogers
Diplomacy is the art of saying 'Nice doggie' until you can find a rock. - Will Rogers
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Backpacker Joe
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The older I get, the more true this seems! You really cant FIX stupid.
"If destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen we must live through all time or die by suicide."
— Abraham Lincoln
"If destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen we must live through all time or die by suicide."
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MtnGoat
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Hiding in a cave at 21,000' feet!
Diplomacy is the art of saying 'Nice doggie' until you can find a rock. - Will Rogers
Diplomacy is the art of saying 'Nice doggie' until you can find a rock. - Will Rogers
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Randito
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Wed May 10, 2017 12:47 pm |
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MtnGoat
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thanks for the tip, that looks like a great read
Diplomacy is the art of saying 'Nice doggie' until you can find a rock. - Will Rogers
Diplomacy is the art of saying 'Nice doggie' until you can find a rock. - Will Rogers
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Randito
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Wed May 10, 2017 1:26 pm |
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I enjoyed it when I read it soon after it came out. Pretty crazy guys.
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Malachai Constant
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That book was the popular inspiration for all new age dirtbags, lot harder to get away with now. Don't ask why but you could still get away with it the 80's on lesser peaks.
There fixed it.
"You do not laugh when you look at the mountains, or when you look at the sea." Lafcadio Hearn
"You do not laugh when you look at the mountains, or when you look at the sea." Lafcadio Hearn
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Randito
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Randito
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Fri May 26, 2017 7:15 pm |
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| Malachai Constant wrote: | | That book was the popular inspiration for all old time dirtbags |
"old time dirtbags" predate that book, you must have meant "middle aged dirtbags"
I mean FB was dirtbagging in the '50s.
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