Mt. Everest: Storm traps 1,000 rich climbers

Hundreds trapped by out-of-season blizzard conditions on Mount Everest

COST: Price of completing the world’s most iconic mountain climbs (outforia.com)

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(NBC News) Oct. 5, 2025: Rescue efforts were underway on Sunday on Tibet’s eastern slope of Mount Everest, where nearly 1,000 [rich] people [spending at least $84,000 in 1922 prices for the attempt to summit and gain bragging rights] were trapped by a blizzard, according to Chinese state media reports. NBC News’ Camila Bernal has the latest. For more context and news coverage of the most important stories of the day, click: nbcnews.com. #nbcnews #currentevents

(BBC News) Rescuers bringing down rich, trapped, Everest climbers

(DW News) Heavy snowfall has trapped hikers on slopes of Mt. Everest

Heavy snowfall, wind, rain has trapped hikers on the slopes of Mount Everest

(DW News) Oct. 6, 2025: DW (Deutsche World) is a German public broadcast service. One trekker has died. Rescuers have guided hundreds of other trekkers trapped on Everest to safety. Unusually heavy snowfall and rainfall have battered the Himalayas. According to Chinese state media, the hikers have reached the small township of Qudang, Tingri County, and rescuers have made contact with the remaining 200 trekkers. Kenton Cool, a British mountaineer, talks about the situation and rescue efforts.

Nepal on fire: Gen Z uprising (video)

UPDATE: Nepal Gen Z protest | Nepal's revolution: organic or engineered?

(Likely engineered. Nepal is utterly and completely controlled by India.)

Nepal is on fire 🇳🇵

(wehatethecold) Sept. 9, 2025: On the ground in Nepal, I cannot believe what I saw today. Gen Z protests in Nepal and how they unfolded from my lens. The full journey back from Thailand to the UK on two wheels continues soon once I am able to get out of curfew here and fly the bike. It seems it might be a while until that happens. Love you all. Tell my mother I love her, too. 📹 Extended cut (37 mins): wehatethecold. Nepal is on fire 🇳🇵

(The Sun) Gen Z protesters torch Nepal parliament building after government bans social media

(On Demand News) Nepal protests: shocking scenes show moment protesters torch Parliament

Nepal's Gen Z protesters thrash ministers and set Parliament on fire | Vantage

• (New York Post) Nepal Parliament building set on FIRE as PM resigns amid deadly protests
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Quake in Tibet, Nepal, India, China (live)

• 2025 Tibet earthquake (Wiki)

China Earthquake LIVE: Death toll from powerful earthquake in Tibet reaches 126 | WION LIVE 

The wisdom eyes of the Buddha, Nepal

(WION) Started streaming Jan. 7, 2024: Bhutan has also been affected. A 6.8-magnitude quake [updated to 7.1] struck China's remote Tibet region on Tuesday morning. [This is disputed territory claimed by an independent Tibet, nibbled at by India, touching Nepal, not far from Bhutan, but invaded and occupied by Chinese forces.] The death toll is rising to at least 53 [at least 126 with at least as many injured], state media is reporting. US media states that a magnitude of 7.1 earthquake jolted China-Nepal border. The earthquake jolted Dingri County in Xigaze City (Shigatse), located in the Xizang (Tibet) Autonomous Region, at 9:05 am local time. In addition to the confirmed fatalities, 62 others have been injured. The powerful tremor has left a trail of destruction, and rescue efforts are underway. #nepal #china #tibet

• BBC VIDEO: Massive quake hits near Buddhist holy Xigaze, near Mount Everest

7.1 magnitude earthquake kills at least 53 people in Tibet | DW News

Powerful earthquake rocks Tibet and parts of Nepal

Aerial view of Boudhanath, Nepal

(CNN) Jan. 7, 2025: More than 100 people have been killed after a powerful earthquake struck a remote region of Tibet, with tremors felt across the Himalayas in neighboring Nepal, Bhutan, and parts of northern India. The 7.1-magnitude quake struck at 9:05 am local time at a depth of 6.2 miles (10 kilometers) and was followed by multiple aftershocks, according to the United States Geological Survey (USGS). #CNN #News

CCTV captures moment 7.1 magnitude quake strikes China’s Tibet region

Tibet earthquake: Tibetan govt blames China for deadly quake | WION Pulse

Foreshocks? 11 earthquakes hit days ago

China’s Yinchuan hit by 11 earthquakes in 24 hours; millions flee, roads and rails jammed

(China Observer) Jan. 4, 2025: ✪ On Jan. 2 and 3, 2025, Yinchuan in Ningxia, China, experienced 11 earthquakes within 24 hours. The strongest measured 4.8 magnitude. The tremors were also felt in Shaanxi and Gansu. Although the magnitudes were not high, the frequent and widespread quakes, combined with shallow epicenters, led to strong tremors in some areas, causing public panic. Join channel: @chinaobserver0 #chinaobserver

World's most mysterious: Mt. Kailash

The Most Mysterious Mountain in the World | Mount Kailash

(Harry Sahota) Premiered Oct. 13, 2024: This is the Mount Kailash mystery: To date, close to 7,000 different people have scaled Mt. Everest, the highest mountain in the world. K2, the second highest, is much tougher to summit, but people have done it. However, there is one mountain thousands of meters shorter and not even on the list of Top T00 highest peaks in the world that no one dares to attempt to climb, not even the most experienced mountaineers. That mountain is the possible non-mountain Mt. Kailash.

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Could mysterious Kailash be Mt. Sumeru?

What's the most mysterious mountain in world? Mt. Sumeru or Mt. Kailash?

(Motech) July 24, 2024: The Mount Kailash Mystery: To date, close to 7,000 different people have scaled Mount Everest, the highest mountain in the world (unless that's K2). But there is one mountain thousands of meters shorter and not even in the Top 100 highest peaks in the world that no one has climbed and no one even dares to try to climb, not even the most experienced mountaineers. That mountain is Mount Kailash -- which has many features that suggest it may be the mythical "mountain" at the center of Buddhist cosmology, as well as that of Hindu and Jain cosmologies. The mountain is also central to the indigenous Bon shamanism of the Himalayan range. That mountain, the axis mundi, is Mt. Sumeru ("Good Mount Meru"). #kailash #mystery #mountain

Is this a mountain ET base like Mt. Shasta, CA?

Not a solid black mass but concrete with rocks?

• Maybe we stand corrected: High in Bhutan, this is not Mt. Sumeru
• VIDEO: Yggdrasil: Worlds in Norse mythology

Mt. Sumeru at the center of Buddhist cosmology

Even Taoism, justly famous for its yin-yang symbol, is aware of Mt. Sumeru.

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Bhutanese thanka of Mt. Meru in Buddhist Universe

Mount Meru (Sanskrit and Pali मेरु, "Mountain High") is also known as Mt. Sumeru, Sineru, or Mahā Meru.

It is the sacred mountain of Buddhist, Hindu, and Jain cosmologies. It is considered to the center of all physical, metaphysical, and spiritual universes [1], [the axis mundi of a multiverse, which is not to say every multiverse in the omniverse].

This mysterious "mountain" (or magnetic lines of force extending out of the atmosphere and into space where the heavenly planes are physically located) is also mentioned in some scriptures of non-Dharmic religions such as Taoism, which was influenced by the arrival of Buddhism in China [2].

There is no clear identification of Mt. Sumeru with a particular geophysical location, but it is always located in the Himalayan or Aravalli ranges. Many famous Buddhist, Hindu, and Jain temples have been built as symbolic representations of this mountain.

Why is this one bead different than the others?

The "Sumeru Throne" (须弥座 xūmízuò) style base is a common feature of Chinese pagodas. The highest point (finial bud) on the pyatthat, a Burmese-style multi-tiered roof, represents Mount Meru.

THE NAME meru derives from Sanskrit and means "high." The proper name of the mountain is Meru (Sanskrit Meruparvata), with the prefix su-, resulting in the meaning "Excellent or Sublime Mount Meru" [3]. Meru is also the name of the central bead in a string of rosary beads or mālā [4]. 

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• Motech, 7/24/24; Pat Macpherson, Dhr. Seven, Amber Larson (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly Wiki edit Mount Meru

Mom, I'm trekking to Mt. Everest (video)

I visited Mount Everest Base Camp

(Luke Korns) July 28, 2024: What's up? My name is Luke Korns. I trekked to Everest Base Camp with a retired Nepalese Sherpa guide from the Himalayas. His name is Phanden. To contact him, email sherpa.phanden@gmail.com. Follow me on Twitter (lukekorns ) or Instagram (LukeKorns).

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Once upon a time in Nepal...

Just give me a few years of silence.

Once upon a time in Nepal a boy sought enlightenment. He sat under a tree in the woods. But soon he attracted all the wrong kind of attention. It wasn't just the tree spirits and unseen beings who haunt the forest. It was devoted looky-loos and devoted observers. He got up and went somewhere else, acting like a modern-day Siddhartha.

[But Prince Sid Gautama was actually in Gandhara, what the ancient Greeks called Scythia, in the territory or mahajanapada of the Sakas (Indo-Scythians) called Kapilavastu. But never mind about that detail; historians have relocated him to tiny Nepal on the border of India where it's easier to safeguard his story and monuments, leaving the massive ones in and around his hometown in Afghanistan to languish for centuries with no one paying much attention until recently: Mes Aynak, Bamiyan, Ajina Tepe...]

I'm a do-it-yourselfer, a self-awakened buddha.

The boy's name was Ram Bahadur Bomjon (nicknamed "Buddha Boy" for some similarities to the story of Siddhartha), who eventually became an esoteric Vajrayana lama and spiraled into disrepute. Too much fame too soon does that to a meditator.

What would it have taken to ascend the mountain of wisdom and reach the pinnacle of knowing-and-seeing? Restraints on practice, boundaries, a solid disciplinary code (vinaya). "All we ever wanted was everything. All we ever got was cold," sings Bauhaus. Now could an American reach the Holy Land and get to the base of what is reputedly the tallest mountain in the world?

But, Son, what about avalanches? - Oh, Mom!

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• Luke Korns, wandering in Nepal, 2024; Dhr. Seven, Pat Macpherson (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Come to Mt. Everest base camp from LA

Meetup.com EverestDreams.com (EverestDreams EBC Trek E); Ananda (Dharma Buddhist Meditation), Pfc. Sandoval, Seth Auberon (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Los Angeles-Everest Base Camp Trek 2024: Customer knowledge session

DETAILS: We are hosting a FREE customer knowledge sharing session on a trip to the Everest Base Camp for the 2024 season.

Ever want to make it to the top? It starts with this trek to the camp at the base of the world's largest mountain (which some books say is really K2 in Pakistan).

Tour itinerary and day breakup, physical fitness, preparation, food and medical preparation, packaging, cost and budgeting, culture orientation -- we'll cover it all.

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• Meetup: Los Angeles-Everest Base Camp Trek 2024 - ONLINE customer knowledge session, Sun, Jan. 21, 2024, 2:15 PM

Powerful earthquake hits Nepal (video)

What has happened to Boudhanath, the Eyes of Wisdom, in Kathmandu, Nepal?

Deadly earthquake hits western Nepal

(Reuters/Guardian News) Nov. 4, 2023: BHERI, Nepal (Himalayas) Rescue workers in Nepal began digging through the rubble of collapsed houses with their hands, searching for survivors after the country's worst earthquake in eight years killed at least 137 people and shook buildings as far away as New Delhi, India (reut.rs/40rrSBa). Keep up with the latest news from around the world: reuters.com

Mountaineer loses Guinness world record

Will Taylor (@WillTaylor_news) LBC, 9/26/23; CC Liu, Sheldon S. (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

This is Bull Scheiße!

Legendary mountain climber stripped of Guinness World Records after map enthusiast claims he stopped 5 meters short of real summit. Westerner Reinhold Messner has been stripped of his Guinness World Records.

The famed mountaineer who believed he had scaled the 14 highest peaks on the planet is furious after he was stripped of his Guinness World Records when a map enthusiast said he stopped five meters short of the true summit on one of those climbs, namely, Annapurna.

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  Annapurna mountain, Nepal (Alamy)

  [However, Buddhist Sherpa guides and porters did make it to the top of the highest mountains and have been doing so for a long time without the glory. Without them, no Westerner would be making it to the top of Mt. Everest, Annapurna, or K-2, allegedly the highest summit in the world, even taller than Everest.]

Reinhold Messner mad at Guinness Book folks

Reinhold Messner was recognized as having been the first man to climb the world's 8,000-meter summits. But Eberhard Jurgalski, after using German space agency imagery, has said he fell just short of reaching the actual peak of Annapurna in the Himalayas when he climbed it in 1985.

After a decade of work, Jurgalski believes he stopped five meters away, and that mountaineers failed to properly complete the summits on three different peaks. More

Minerals are missing from soil and food

The mighty Himalayas are riddled with Buddhist monasteries, monuments, and statues.

Shilajeet good, weakness bad. Eat rock (mineral).

Is author Dr. Steven Gundry, MD, a fraud and a quack now -- eager for a great gimmick as a money grab -- or is he a sincere vegetarian researcher who changes his mind as he goes along? It used to be "Avoid all plant lectins" then it was "Eat anything you want, just add my special secret ingredient olive oil" [which only grows in quantity in Morocco on a farm I made a personal deal with]. Now he's echoing the message of Dr. Joel Wallach (criticalhealthnews.com) in rediscovering that our "soil is depleted" and can't provide intensively farmed fruits and vegetables with the nutrient levels they once had.

Dr. Gundry MD ®

So we have to get it from supplements, but supplements won't be digest without these critical trace minerals needed for health. They are found in organic fulvic acid (Sanskrit Shilajit, English "Destroyer of Weakness" or Asphalt or Mineral Pitch, Russian Mumiyo, German Mumie), which comes most famously from the Himalayas. But Dr. Gundry claims to have found a richer vein of these minerals here in the United States. He won't say where [to keep his investment secret] but does claim it's in the lower 48 somewhere in the south of the country. It sounds like he found Dr. Wallach's mountain of prehistoric minerals, which are sold in Youngevity products. It seems Dr. Gundry is getting more extreme (ex-[main]stream), but he's absolutely correct that we need 90 minerals and vitamins that just are not in the soil anymore. We need to supplement them into our diets for maximum health.

• Gundry MD ® | Dr. Gundry Supplements and Wellness Resources

It might be better to go to the tallest mountain in the world, K2, in the Karakoram range

Yeti: Bear Man of Buddhist Lore (PBS)

The Crazed Hunt for the Himalayan Yeti

(Monstrum, 3/11/20) The yeti is one of the world’s most notorious cryptids, one searched for in earnest and with great enthusiasm.

The huge, hairy bear-man monster is said to roam the valleys of the Himalayas, and some people out there are convinced the “abominable snowman” (actually man bear snow man) is real.

Does this snow monster really exist? Is it a type of bear or Bigfoot? An unidentified humanoid species (Almas, Gigantopithecus)? Himalayan Buddhist lore? Complete fiction?

Let’s find out in this episode of Monstrum. Host Dr. Emily Zarka examines the yeti’s origins, from the ancient Tibetan Buddhist folklore to the modern Westernized "abominable snowman" version.

These ogres are filthy, stink and live in the snow

She explains how Buddhist beliefs, a series of intrepid 20th-century explorers, and a creatively translated word make the yeti the creature we recognize today — and how it led to some pretty incredible scientific discoveries.

• Written and hosted by Dr. Emily Zarka. Director: David Schulte. Executive Producer: Amanda Fox. Producer: Stephanie Noone. Illustrator: Samuel Allen. Editor: Derek Borsheim. Produced by Spotzen for PBS Digital Studios.

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Gigantopithecus looks just like a yeti that goes on all fours (Concavenator/wiki)

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• Capper, D. S. (2012). The Friendly Yeti. Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature, and Culture, 6(1), 71-87. Available at: aquila.usm.edu/fac_pubs/14855.
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• Kets de Vries, Manfred F. R. "Abominable Snowman or Bigfoot: A Psychoanalytic Search for the Origin of Yeti and Sasquatch Tales" Fabula, 23.1 (2009): 246-261.
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• Loxton, Daniel, and Donald R. Prothero. Abominable Science!: Origins of the Yeti, Nessie, and Other Famous Cryptids. Columbia University Press, 2013.
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The World's Most Dangerous Mountain

Eddie Bauer, June 1, 2020; Pfc. Sandoval, Ashley Wells (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

The rigors of Mt. Baldy, Los Angeles

Mt. Everest may not have the highest peak in the world. (There are irregularities in measurement, whether or not to count the snow piled on top, politics, tourism, England's reputation, and more nonsense than we can imagine). That distinction may go to K2, considered the second highest peak. K2 is certainly more dangerous, more of a challenge, and far less frequently summitted. If anyone thinks s/he's a mountaineer, it may be a deadly choice to tackle Denali in Alaska, K2 in Pakistan (formerly India), or the world's biggest mountain in Hawaii, tallest but we do not usually count the part under water.

Breathtaking: K2

(Eddie Bauer) “K2 is a savage mountain that tries to kill you.” That is how climber George Bell described the infamous peak after the first American expedition in 1953 -- forever giving the mountain its nickname, the Savage Mountain. Sixty-six years later Eddie Bauer mountain guides Adrian Ballinger and Carla Perez aim to summit the 8611-meter peak and join a community of explorers fewer in number than those who have been to outer space. Even more incredible, they will both attempt the feat without the use of supplemental oxygen. Every step of the way the team faces hazardous conditions, terrifying setbacks, and crushing misfortunes. But as Ballinger puts it, “I'll go until the mountain tells me I can’t go anymore.”

Mtn climbing and skiing in living room (video)

MyFrisk #StayAtHome (imgur.com); CC Liu, Ashley Wells, Dhr. Seven (ed.), Wisdom Quarterly

Simile of the Mountains

Pabbatopama Sutra (SN 3.25) edited by Dhr. Seven based on Ven. Thanissaro (trans.)

Climbing the tallest mountain in L.A., Mt. Baldy, aka Mt. San Antonio (hikingguy.com)

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Hollow Earth: Mt. Kailash

Thus have I heard. The Buddha was once residing in Savatthi when King Pasenadi of Kosala approached, bowed, and sat respectfully to one side. The Blessed One asked him, "Well now, great king, where are you coming from in the middle of the day?"

"Just now, venerable sir, I was engaged in the royal affairs of an anointed noble-warrior king intoxicated with sovereignty, obsessed with lust for sensual pleasures, with control of territory, as I rule having conquered a great sphere on earth."

Mountains in the four directions

[The Buddha then asked:] "What do you suppose, great king, if a person, trustworthy and reliable were to come from the east and say, 'Your majesty, please know that I come from the east, where I saw a great mountain as high as the clouds coming this way, crushing everyone [in its path]. Do as you see fit.'

• Then a second person were to come from the west...
• Then a third person were to come from the north...
• Then a fourth person were to come from the south saying [the same thing].

"Great king, if such terrible peril were to arise with wanton destruction of human life — human rebirth being so hard to obtain — what should be done?"

"Venerable sir, if such terrible peril were to arise with wanton destruction of human life — human rebirth being so hard to obtain — what else could be done but conduct in line with Dharma, good karma, skillful deeds, meritorious actions?"

Warning

"Great king, I am informing you, I am announcing to you that aging-and-death are rolling this way! Great king, when aging-and-death are rolling this way, what should be done?"

"Venerable sir, as aging-and-death are rolling this way, what else should be done but conduct in line with Dharma, good karma, skillful deeds, meritorious actions?

Jain symbolic depiction of samsara

"Venerable sir, there are elephant battles [fought by] anointed noble-warrior kings intoxicated with sovereignty, obsessed with lust for sensual pleasures, with control of territory, as I rule having conquered a great sphere on earth. But there's no use for elephant battles, no scope for them, when aging-and-death are rolling this way.

• "There are cavalry battles...
• chariot battles...
• infantry battles...

The cavalry faces the infantry of "enemies."

"In this royal court there are counselors who, when enemies arrive, are capable of dividing them just by their wits. But there is no use for such battles of wit, no scope for them, when aging-and-death are rolling this way.

Gold bullion, thesovereign wealth of humans

"In this royal court there is abundant gold stored in vaults, and with such wealth we are capable of buying off enemies when they come. But there is no use for battles of wealth, no scope for them, when aging-and-death are rolling this way.

"Venerable sir, as aging-and-death are rolling this way, what else should be done but conduct in line with Dharma, good karma, skillful deeds, meritorious actions?"

Age and death are approaching!

"So it is, great king, so it is! As aging-and-death are rolling this way, what else should be done but conduct in line with Dharma, good karma, skillful deeds, meritorious actions?"

This is what the Blessed One said. Having said it, the Tathagatha [the Wayfarer, the Well Gone One, the Welcome One, the One Arrived at Suchness], the Teacher, further said:

Massive towers,

Mountains pressing against the sky,

Are moving in from all sides,

Crushing in from the four directions.

Aging-and-death

Are rolling this way, crushing everyone:

Noble-warriors, Brahmins, merchants,

Workers, outcastes, scavengers,

Sparing no one and nothing.

They demolish everything.

Here elephants can hold no ground,

Nor chariots nor infantry,

Nor a battle of wits

Nor can wealth win out.

So a wise person,

Seeing one's own good,

Steadfast secures confidence

In the Buddha, Dharma, and Sangha.

One who practices Dharma

In thought, word, and deed

Is praised even here on earth

And gone beyond rejoices after death.