Is disaster reporting becoming too violent?

June 17, 2015 Opinion and advice climbing fatalities, dreamers destination, everest, everest base camp, media sensationalism, mountaineering disasters, national geographic, nepal, nepal earthquake, outside magazine, social media, tibet 3 Comments

Is disaster reporting becoming too violent?

After two major tragedies on Everest in the last two years, which generated worldwide media interest, I have found myself reading increasingly violent reports, with explicit descriptions of injuries and upsetting photographs.

It’s normal to say you’re going to break someone’s legs, Sherpa admits

October 17, 2014 Opinion and advice climbing fatalities, commercial mountaineering, everest, everest base camp, himalayan ascent, national geographic, nepal, sherpas, trekking 8 Comments

It’s normal to say you’re going to break someone’s legs, Sherpa admits

National Geographic has just published a series of articles about this year’s Everest avalanche when 16 Sherpas died. Buried further down the story is one startling statement that leapt out of the page at me.