Talk:Mount Everest/Archive 1

message: The last edit about Sikdar may have gone a little overboard. It seem uncontroversial that he didn't use any fancy technological instruments, right? And it is uncontroversial (although obvious) that it wasn't named after him. The sentences seemed NPOV to me, although I can see hacking them out due to obviousness. ("Mount Everest was also not named after Queen Victoria, John Quincy Adams, and Attila the Hun" :-) ) -- hike395 04:46, 22 Jun 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sikdar 

message: :"The 1998 American Everest Expedition installed a GPS unit on the highest bedrock, computing the elevation of the summit as 8,830 meters...Today's generally accepted value of 8,850 m (29,035 feet) was obtained via GPS readings from a device placed on the summit by the USA in 1999." 
Is there a typo here somewhere? — Matt Crypto 23:22, 16 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  US GPS reading 

message: Please, someone repair the box. I tried to, and failed %( --Compay 23:48, 8 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  The Box 

message: We report the nationality (Country) of the climbers in the timeline list. By the way, Hans Kammerlander and Messner are reported as from "South Tyrol" and "(South Tyrol, Italy). I wonder why we do not say just Italy, or at least (Italy, South Tyrol) about them both.
Wikipedia is not a place in which writing about our feelings, or will of independence. I'll change it in a week, in nobody answers this comment. Gala.martin 17:12, 13 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I changed to (Italy, South Tyrol) since nobody answered (see above) in two weeks. gala.martin  <Small>(what?)</Small> 23:47, 25 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  nationality 

message: Intro says it's growing 2.5 cm a year, later figure given (in measurement section) is 3 to 5mm.  Big difference and if someone knows which is right this should be adjusted. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.207.246.230 (talk • contribs) 21:19, May 5, 2006
Good point. I have no idea, but I think someone before in this page discussed about 2.5 cm. We should really fix that. gala.martin  <Small>(what?)</Small> 03:42, 6 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Contradicts itself 

message: What is the time estimate for building a cable-car or a vertical tunnel with elevator, which would allow the general tourist public to visit the very peak in a pressurized environment? The Genesis clearly says YHWH tasked mankind "to multiply and conquer all lands". It is imperative that god-fearing, money counting capitalists turn the Everest into an amusement park, so it is not deserted land any more. I hope the chinese will do that, they develop rapidly.
:A more important reason for a permanent human habitation module on the top of Everest would be space colonization. It could serve as a live trial for Moon and Mars bases, as there is almost vacuum on those celestial bodies. If we can demonstrate that people live and work for long in the best earthly airlessness we got, that would be very encouraging towards space expansion. Antarctic has the cold but not the lack of air. 195.70.32.136 09:07, 29 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Visit for the lazy. 

message: In the "Death Zone" section, there's the statment "Temperatures can dip as low as -100 degrees Fahrenheit (-55°C)".  I don't know which is correct, but they sure ain't both so. - Spike 62.49.28.206 11:57, 4 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Temperature inconsistency