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bhilden
Trad climber
Mountain View, CA/Boulder, CO
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Oct 24, 2013 - 04:42pm PT
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So, it's all Steck's fault? Did you see the same movie I saw? There was a long segment about how this conflict has been building for years and started way back in 1953 when the British got to sleep upstairs in the British Embassy in Nepal and the Sherpas had to sleep in the garage. There was also some good insights that the younger sherpas are not going to put up with the crap from the expeditions that their older counterparts have been suffering from all these past years.
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bhilden
Trad climber
Mountain View, CA/Boulder, CO
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Oct 25, 2013 - 01:51am PT
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I think what the movie was trying to say was that the apparent overreaction by the Sherpas was because of issues that went all the way back to the first ascent in 1953. More than once the people being interviewed used the words "the straw that broke the camel's back."
If you buy into that logic then it didn't take much for Steck or anybody else to cause a major riot. For that reason I think it is reasonable to say that Steck didn't do anything very significant. I don't think they were trying to make him blameless. I think the movie was trying to say it didn't take much to trigger something that has been brewing for a long, long time.
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crankster
Trad climber
South Lake Tahoe, CA
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Oct 25, 2013 - 09:35am PT
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Are we still talking about the Sherpa Riot on Everest? The one where a large group of them attacked 3 climbers?
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brotherbbock
Trad climber
Alta Loma, CA
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Oct 25, 2013 - 12:18pm PT
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It's all Wool Stick's fault.
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