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#VantageOnFirstpost From Human Corpses to Excreta: Is Everest a Mess? | Vantage with Palki Sharma On May 29, 1953 - Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay did the impossible - by scaling the world's highest mountain - Mount Everest. For the next 20 years, many tried to reach the peak but only 600 succeeded. But now, this number is achievable in just one season. This has led to a "traffic jam" on Mount Everest. Videos show long queues of climbers stuck amidst mounds of snow, overflowing waste and dead corpses. Why is that? Why do so many people want to scale the Everest? Is everyone suddenly a pro-climber? Has the need for glory on social media led to people chasing the impossible? Palki Sharma tells you. --- Traffic Jam | Mount Everest | Viral | Climbers | Environment | Ice | Firstpost | World News | News Live | Vantage | Palki Sharma | News #trafficjam #mounteverest #viral #climbers #environment #ice #firstpost #vantageonfirstpost #palkisharma #worldnews

🚣♀️ What could you achieve in 46 days, 17 hours, 47 minutes? 🚣♀️ Next month Jessica Oliver and Charlotte Harris will be trying to row the Pacific Ocean in less that 46 days to break the current world record for a female pair. As you can see from their Atlantic Row, they already hold one world record, but the Pacific is harder and more gruelling... Here are few facts about the Pacific Ocean to give you an idea of the challenge that lies ahead: 🔵 The Pacific Ocean is the World’s deepest ocean. 🔵 Before the ‘World’s Toughest Row – Pacific’, just 82 people in 33 boats have successfully rowed to one of the Hawaiian islands from mainland USA. 🔵 The word Pacific means ‘peaceful’. 🔵 The first person to row the Pacific was Patrick Quesnel in 1976. 🔵 The Pacific ocean shrinks by 2cm each year due to the movement of tectonic plates. This means that the Atlantic ocean increases by 2cm each year! 🔵 Of the 33 crews to have completed the voyage, 11 were all female, 18 all male and just 4 mixed gender. 🔵 75% of the World’s volcanos are situated in the Pacific ocean basin which is called ‘The Ring of Fire’. 🔵 The longest anyone has taken to row this route was Peter Bird who took 147 days. 🔵 The fastest female team to row this route was Latitude 35 who completed the row in 34 days, 14 hours, 20 minutes. 🔵 The average crossing time for all crew sizes is 62 days. #bowmore #teamwildwaves #worldstoughestrow #sponsor #worldrecordattempt

“What we must do is encourage a sea change in attitude, one that acknowledges that we are a part of the living world, not apart from it.” - Sylvia Earle Embracing the depths of change! Sylvia Earle's words resonate deeply with the essence of freediving, a discipline that not only explores the wonders of the underwater world but also fosters a profound connection with nature.   As freedivers, we understand that every descent beneath the surface is a communion with the living world. It's a reminder that we are not mere spectators but integral participants in the intricate web of life that thrives beneath the waves. Our pursuit in freediving embodies Sylvia Earle's call to protect and cherish our oceans. It's a commitment to be caretakers, not conquerors, of the underwater realm. Let's remember that our choices, both in and out of the water, have a ripple effect, inspiring others to preserve our interconnected living world. Together, we ensure the ocean's enduring beauty and vitality for generations to come. #Freediving #OceanConservation #SylviaEarle #ChangeTheWorld #FreediveCommunity

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For those unfamiliar with David Breashears, this Forbes piece reports the main accomplishments that made his career in the Himalayan world. Friends and co-workers on projects too long to list, remember his intestinal fortitude, his emotional intelligence under both trying and humble circumstances, and his genuine willingness to give a helping hand. Personally I recall his generosity during regular multi hour mundane conversations about media production, Nepali helicopter pilots, global weather change as seen on the glaciers of Chomolungma, cameras, arcane high altitude trails in Solu Khumbu, Nepali politics, media producers, Sherpa oral history, and where multi-image capture photography was headed. Sadly there is now simply no one to talk to about all of those topics in one conversation. https://lnkd.in/g4yYm3Zb

New Post: Wilderness dynamic -The breathing wilderness, a dynamic complex of natural forces, unfolds as a living, dynamic entity. Its heartbeat resonates in the - https://lnkd.in/dHszUcSY

The Arctic tundra: It is only my second years of coming north, bordering the Artic circle, mostly for work and to find a bit of adventure. I didn’t know what I was getting myself into, maybe it’s a good thing. It’s a hard way to earn your living, I am not describing my own experience/job but from talking to so many men and woman that have earn their living here up north for years. Everything here is hard and tuff. No, not the kind you might think of. It sure wasn’t what I would have describe what tuff was before witnessing it myself. I don’t remember exactly what I was thinking before, a lot have change inside since then. This land does not care about your feeling, it doesn’t care if your hurt, cut and bleed, in fact it will gladly drinks every drop of your blood and run with your finger, nose and ear if it can, like a cold nightmarish monster that seem to only want to rob you of everything you take for granted. This land has no place for you it does not want you here! and it will test your limits no matter what type of job you are here to do. I have met the most amazing peoples working in the Artic Tundra. They have this incredible raw beauty, when I look into their eyes and listen to their story, most don’t even realize how incredible their story is, they are just so humble about it. Story of life and death that all of us, would not have survive. And they tell it like it’s nothing, like everyone live like this! Probably most have or will have story like that, it is only a question of time before you get to be tested like they did while earning a living here. I have witness with my own eyes the terrible blizzard that happen here in the Artic winter, wind up to 130 km/h and temperature that goes in the -60 C .. sometime even lower. Even from the `comfort’ of the mining camp. It’s hard to describe how it is really. You hear the wind screaming outside like a creature from hell. The snow itself feel more like sand paper carving deep crevasses on your face, you can’t even see your hands in front of you. To think that some of them have been stuck in such condition and survive! And tell it like when I tell story of surfing trip in a Caribbean Sea, is incomprehensible. To tell you the truth I didn’t really understand the poem of D.H. Lawrence before coming here and work with these majestic and beautiful peoples that I can now call friends. {I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself. D.H Lawrence}

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PLANETARY PILGRIMAGE - Every 12 years, it's close enough to swim from one world to the other. What's your reason to cross over? #TheGreatConjunction, #PlanetaryPilgrimage, #TheCrossing, #TheUpwardRiver, #ThroughTheMaelstrom, #SciFiSaga, #AdventureAwaits, #EpicJourney, #NarrativeNewWorlds, #TVShowOdyssey, #IdeaFrontier, #InnovationChronicle, #FutureFable,