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I don't think the grandparent poster is suggesting that the sherpas be forced to recover the body. If you read the article, it makes it clear that in practice,
by obstinate 9y ago
I don't think the grandparent poster is suggesting that the sherpas be forced to recover the body. If you read the article, it makes it clear that in practice, several poor people already are cleaning up after the rich people who have climbed the mountain.
It is already possible to buy repatriation insurance, according to the article. I don't think gp's suggestion that climbers be required to buy that insurance is unreasonable.
- alanfalcon 9y agoShould the Sherpas be forced to buy insurance as well? What about the ones going on these dangerous recovery runs?
- obstinate 9y agoI don't know. It's kind of beside the point of rich foreigners coming and littering up the mountain. Probably it should be required that their employers buy insurance on their behalf. In fact, they went on strike for something like this after the avalanche in 2014. But, yeah, fundamentally it's probably best for anyone who is going up to make or have made for them provisions to ensure they come down again, one way or the other.
- weberc2 9y agoEmployer insurance. This cost would be passed to the customer necessarily.
- louithethrid 9y agoIf a sherpa detects a foreigner wont make it to the top, shoots him and returns with the equpiment- would the church of economics and the great magus consider that a blessed act?