mt.everest

70 million years ago, the himalayas were formed.

when the wheel and plough was invented in mesopotamia 5500 years ago, nobody has stood on it's peak.

when the pyramids were built, noone has seen the world from atop mt.everest.

birth of jesus christ buddha and mohommed, the prophet passed without anyone attempting to scale it's slope.

today, 500 people attempt to summit mt.everest every season. only 1/3 of those who attempt make it. there are over 250 dead bodies littering the sides and crevices of this great mountain. plastic, oxygen canisters, rope, ladder and...oh...yellow snow is what we leave behind along with corpses.

but here is the deal...she is an angry mountain. she claims all those who try to conquer her in one way or another. death is not the worst thing that can happen to a person. sometimes death is merciful.

just saying.

morons.

Mt.Everest, the circus

I wish they'd leave that mountain alone. It was not meant to be 'conquered' by puny humans to fill the void in their lives.

http://blogs.discovery.com/everest_2009/

It makes me want to weep. There is trash, urine, tents, photos, dead bodies, empty oxygen canisters littering her gorgeous slopes. Enough. Please fuck off the mountain. Go die elsewhere.

the demise of newspapers.

there is so much panic about the demise of newspapers in the united states. i am not surprised. first of all, there is no content. secondly, whatever there is, one can find it online and one can be online ALL the time.

but there is more. newspaper 'content' is not original and incestual. i remember how in india, periodicals and newspapers publish a lot of the readers' contributions. i dont know if it's still true, but it was when i was younger. a lot less advertisements and it is curiosity/anticipation that made us want to go drop the rupees to pick up a mag.

for me, it's not worth buying a newspaper when i get hammered by the marketing idiots who think it's ok to call you at 9.30 in the night to ask if i want to subscribe to the newspaper. well, buddy..if i did, i no longer do.

i subscribe via kindle now. i will stick to the online versions, thank you very much.

you dug this hole. go sleep in it. no sympathies here.

hello world!