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Fritz
Trad climber
Choss Creek, ID
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Apr 25, 2015 - 12:37pm PT
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Reports place the epicenter of the earthquake 80 Km NW of Kathmandu, so per the below map scale, the epicenter might be around 40 Km. from Pokara.
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Jan
Mountain climber
Colorado, Nepal & Okinawa
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Topic Author's Reply - Apr 25, 2015 - 01:24pm PT
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Facebook has set up a site for checking on friends and relatives. A few of my friends in Kathmandu and also from the mountains have checked in.
https://www.facebook.com/safetycheck/nepalearthquake/
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Jan
Mountain climber
Colorado, Nepal & Okinawa
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Topic Author's Reply - Apr 25, 2015 - 02:11pm PT
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I just rechecked google and found that several of my best friends have checked in as being safe, so I'm feeling a little better now.
https://www.facebook.com/safetycheck/nepalearthquake/
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climbski2
Mountain climber
Anchorage AK, Reno NV
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Apr 25, 2015 - 02:14pm PT
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I think that was the bad one from last year even though that video was posted today.
Jan I am glad you are getting some good news.
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Jan
Mountain climber
Colorado, Nepal & Okinawa
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Topic Author's Reply - Apr 25, 2015 - 02:32pm PT
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Thanks! Me too! My Sherpa friends here in Colorado don't have any more information than I do. We're all relying on Facebook and Google.
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tuolumne_tradster
Trad climber
Leading Edge of North American Plate
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Apr 25, 2015 - 02:33pm PT
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Jan: what are the legitimate agencies to send monetary donations that will help Nepalese people who have been impacted by this earthquake?
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Spider Savage
Mountain climber
The shaggy fringe of Los Angeles
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Apr 25, 2015 - 02:35pm PT
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Daniel Mazur is on the North side in China and posted on his Facebook page this morning that everyone over there is okay.
Mother Earth is upping the ante on her highpoint.
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micronut
Trad climber
Fresno/Clovis, ca
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Apr 25, 2015 - 02:40pm PT
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Mazur's Twitter feed shot this out this morning. Terrible. Wishing I was there to help somehow. I've been to Nepal three times in the past few years and have quite a connection to the place. We heard this morning that our good family friends in Kathmandu are safe but there are dark days ahead as the death toll rises.
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Jan
Mountain climber
Colorado, Nepal & Okinawa
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Topic Author's Reply - Apr 25, 2015 - 02:51pm PT
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Tourists and Nepalese alike sleeping in the streets and parks together. Fortunately many of the tourists have tents with them. The water mains are broken so the next big problem is getting everyone enough water, then food.
As for donations, it might be best to wait for appeals from western agencies who will take the money directly there and supervise its distribution or friends going there to help directly. With no electricity, no electronic transfers.
The American government has pledged a preliminary 1 million dollars.
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CCT
Trad climber
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Apr 25, 2015 - 03:10pm PT
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That Everest basecamp avalanche video posted above is the one from last year. Rock and Ice accidentally posted it briefly, then took it down within a few minutes.
This avalanche came down from a different location, to the left of the icefall.
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tuolumne_tradster
Trad climber
Leading Edge of North American Plate
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Apr 25, 2015 - 03:25pm PT
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Thanks Jan...that sounds like good advice.
Durbar Square
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Batrock
Trad climber
Burbank
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Apr 25, 2015 - 03:27pm PT
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A good friend and climbing partner is in the Everest Base Camp or at least in the Khumbu region and his family have not heard from him. His name is Chris Norwood from the San Diego area. If anyone has any info his family would really like to hear from him. Thanks.
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dave729
Trad climber
Western America
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Apr 25, 2015 - 03:31pm PT
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I get it that the idea of building codes can't be implimented in poor
countries but not even trying is maddening. Bricks with no holes for rebar? Come on! The mortar looks to have peeled cleanly off. Zip adhension.
At least in Haiti they had rebar
in there buildings. In the wrong places for sure. The reinforced concrete roofs survived perfectly as they pancaked down squishing the occupants.
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Lynne Leichtfuss
Trad climber
Will know soon
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Apr 25, 2015 - 03:52pm PT
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Dave 729, I thought that too, today. But then here in America we don't always "get" what true poverty is. I thought about our building codes, then I thought about places I've visited world wide. Families were happy to have 4 walls and a roof of any kind, forget water, keeping warm or staying cool. A home, food, water and clothing are not a given in many places on this planet.
A great organization to donate to is Samaritans Purse. You can google them. They will be there shortly to help out in this disaster.
Prayers from our community going out to all involved. Lynne
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