First Photos from Everest
The first available photos of Pemba Dorje Sherpa at the summit of Everest sent exclusively to blogdai. So piss off you spoiled brat white American climbers.
Pemba, as you all remember, holds the worlds speed record for climbing Everest at just over 8 hours. He was attempting to bring the symbols of each of the world's major religions to the summit and pray during this record attempting period. Pity, but no sadness is required. Pemba will do it again. In fact, there are probably 100 active climbing Sherpas who could conceivably attempt world record type feats on Everest. Insanely strong people, these Sherpas, with an insanely high hematocrit.
As a blogdai friend, our first words from Pemba indicated that his two brothers were getting sick at camp II and that the endurance record would not be attempted. Still Pemba acheived his 10th summit of Sagarmatha: no failure in any human's opinion.
MEMO TO CHINA: Have a look at these pictures. This is what a real, non-simulated summit looks like. Cloud and mountain references in the background. Tibetans and Sherpas don't need your phony Olympic torch ceremony to get them up the mountain; they were born for this and find your politics distasteful. More on this later as blogdai is beginning to boil at the topic.
Anyway, Pemba says a direct "thank you" to all who've supported this effort. Peace and Namaste to all
-=blogdai
posted by blogdai @ 6/03/2009 07:39:00 PM
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How in God's name did you get these photos so quickly? You must have been on site?
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Beyond the Summit, is the rare gem that shows us the triumphs and challenges of a major climb from the porter’s point of view. The love of two people from diverse cultures is the fiery centerpiece of a novel that leads its readers through harshly beautiful and highly dangerous territory to the roof of the world. Malcolm Campbell, book reviewer
Conflict and dialog keep this gripping story of destiny, romance and adventure moving from the first page to the last paragraph. LeBlanc has a genius for bonding her readers and her characters. I found I was empathizing in turn with each character as they faced their own personal crisis or trauma.
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A gripping, gut-twisting expedition through the eyes of a porter reveals the heart and soul of Sherpas living in the shadows of Everest. EverestNews.com
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B'dai I find the difference in these photos to be strikingly unlike those Chinese photos you presented, mate.
This Sherpa bloke is clearly at summit as you can just make out the cloud line underneath. Oh, and there is nothing, no big slope above him like in the other photos. The Chins Olympic attempt was nothing but staged propaganda. Nice work and keep it up.
Greetings from Canberra------we love you down under.
Gee thanks Linda for your unabashed self-promoting post. Generally we at blogdai do not allow such bald-faced promotion but any book on Sherpa culture deserves a blogdai plug--regardless of the fact that, post Hillary, the Sherpas are the most prosperous people in Nepal. But, "always be a student" I say.
To our readers: this is by no means a recommendation of this book or the aims of "Linda LeBlanc."
Blogdai has, in fact, read excerpts of this "novel" and found it biased and not at all true to the spirit and essence of Sherpa culture.
So, if you want to fatten Linda's pocket with cash, give the book a try. It speaks volumes here that Ms. LeBlanc feels no need to comment appropriately on our story but rather use our forum for a cheap commercial.
She is part of the Western climbing culture and as such, has spent a lot of time with arrogant pricks. Her posting style here reflects this.
Good luck to Linda and her self-absorbed sense of entitlement. May you one day return to our site with something more insightful than your naked merchandising efforts.
-=blogdai
6:14 PM, June 05, 2009
As i am photographer from Nepal, i'm proud to see photos from Everest and really like the pic....
realy thank you blog dai
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