Nepal Says: No More Strippers On Mount Everest

Posted by Mike Richard on September 28, 2007
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Via Guardian Unlimited:

Nepal’s mountaineering authorities are calling for a ban on nudity and attempts to set obscene records on the world’s highest mountain, officials said yesterday.

Of everything I routinely read about Everest, I never realized that stripping was such a big social issue.

Last year, a Nepali climber claimed the world’s highest display of nudity when he disrobed for several minutes while standing on the 8,850m (29,035ft) summit in temperatures of about minus 10 degrees C (14 degrees Fahrenheit).

Of course this “climber” was a man. Let’s be honest: only guys are stupid enough to try something like that.

The people who live on the foot hill of Everest worship the mountain as a god and mountaineering authorities have asked the government to ban disrespectful stunts on Everest, Tshering said.

Good on ‘em. It’s their mountain and their home. It’s stunning how disrespectful some folks can be.

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Vagabondish editor, Mike Richard, lives in Rhode Island - a spit of land in the northeastern U.S. He is a professional web designer and travel junkie with an unhealthy addiction to backpacking, camping, hiking and seeing the world. He enjoys knit hats, small, declarative sentences and speaking in the third person.



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