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Everest climbers abandon ascent after attack by scores of angry Sherpas

Jon Griffith, who had to flee with two companions as ‘years of frustration’ boiled over, feared ‘mob’ would stone them to death

Very interesting interview with Jonathon Griffith, the photographer and climber, involved in the brawl with Sherpas on Everest at the weekend. Simmering Sherpa frustration at the wealth and ignorance of Westerners doesn’t seem to be a new phenomena. Australian Lincoln Hall was left for dead on Everest in May 2006 but came around after a night on the mountain. In his book Dead Lucky he describes some pretty scary experiences with some young Sherpas who were reluctantly helping him down the mountain. 

Everest is back in the headlines for all the wrong reasons. 

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Reports of high altitude brawl on Everest

Everest & Lhotse

Very disturbing reports of a confrontation on Everest over the weekend between noted Italian climber Simone Moro, Swiss speed king Ueli Steck and British photographer Jonathan Griffith, and up to 100 Sherpas at Camp 2 at 7,200 metres. That kind of aggro at that altitude is just mind-blowing. 

Colourful report from Italian site Montagna.tv here (use Google translate), Repubblica here and a more measured report from The Himalayan Times.  

Moro was on K2 on the day in 2008 when Irish climber Ger McDonnell lost his life, a tragedy excellently captured in The Summit, and he also wrote the preface to a biography of Ger, The Time Has Come, by his brother in law Damien O’Brien. 

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Nice footage of the first round of the 2013 Gravity Enduro Ireland Series which attracted 350 riders to Carrick Mountain in Wicklow last weekend.