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Green Boots Cave

roryks — Wed, 03 Jan 2007 09:24:52 -0800

Can anyone locate a picture of Green Boots Cave. The one (and only?) on Everest. I know it is a bit morbid, but I simply have not been able to find one on the web. There was a picture in The Sunday Times Magazine a few months back, but it was not reproduced online. The Falling Man seems to be a dime a dozen, but Green Boots? No sign.

Please help me find Budge Crawley's 1976 Oscar acceptance speech

persona non grata — Fri, 04 Aug 2006 21:23:45 -0800

My grandfather won an Oscar in 1976 and I want to find some video of his accpetance speech. He won it in the category "Best Feature Length Documetary" for the film The Man Who Skied Down Everest and his speech was quite short and a bit of a poke at the whole industry in Hollywood:

"This is an American award for a Canadian film about a Japanese skier skiing down a Nepalese mountain" and then he said some other stuff, I guess. But I don't know because I have never seen it. I'd dearly love to see it and so would his kids (my uncles and aunt).

I have contacted the folks who run the Oscars but they are ignoring me (I am in their email cue, I guess). Can anybody help me here? Do you just happen to have the 1976 Oscars on VHS and can you upload Budge's speech to YouTube?

Corpses on Everest

cadastral — Wed, 02 Nov 2005 00:41:27 -0800

I hear that the path one takes while climbing Mt. Everest is littered with the dead bodies of people who have failed in their attempts to summit (1, 2, 3). The wikipedia artcle alludes to the fact that the bodies are "...easily visible from the standard climbing routes."

Well... I've seen a ton of shots of the summit, so I know they've taken cameras up the sonofabitch. And I know something about the morbid human fascination with his impermanence. So the thing I'd like to know is... where are the pictures? Not trying to be ghoulish, at all. Just... I can't stop thinking about the creepyness of stepping over perfectly-preserved corpses while persuing a perfectly optional "leisure" activity.

They don't have to be graphic, but they have to exist... somewhere. I've googled every way I know how. Surely someone must know where they keep them. Thanks for any help you can provide.