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- A rescue team, on standby nearby, was reportedly unaware of the event as it occurred. In a Financial Times Alphaville article written on the event, another of the ASKfm climbers was reported as stating, “At the top of Everest the weather was very bad, and then we were coming down. We were going down to Camp 4, which is at about 7900 m, and one Sherpa was dying. That’s all we know. … He was behind us, so we don’t know what happened to him. We were going fast and the Sherpa wasn’t coming with us. He was coming behind so we didn’t see him.” It is unclear if the Sherpa who was dying was Lam Babu. Mingma Sherpa luckily made it down, but Lam Babu is missing and presumed dead.
ButterflyEffect · 2147 days ago · link ·
Fuck everything about this. It's morally reprehensible, irresponsible, and naive to even consider doing something like this.The climbers brought one of the Ledgers back down, and its $50,000 in tokens will be raffled off to whitelisted members, those who have pre-registered for the ICO. They left the other Ledger with $50,000 in tokens buried somewhere on the summit. In a slightly unnerving, robotically-narrated video promoting the stunt, ASKfm encourages crypto enthusiasts: “If you’re brave enough, go get them.”