By: Mountain Climber

Mountain Climber — Sat, 13 May 2017 13:21:14 +0000

Mingma has posted one shot from his phone that appears to confirm he continued to the summit so we should all see his summit shot soon. I’ve been on mountains with these quiet scandals before and in the past I’ve always felt that I do what I do and let others live with what they do – including collecting accolades based on incomplete truths. That was before the land of social media and the ability to do quickly achieve widespread distribution of misinformation. I leave some room for being slightly hypoxia and mistaken on the part of others but instead of directly correcting the original misinformation, others have interestingly “kind of” quietly stepped back from the summit claim but almost implied that they still reached a summit (the North summit) but did not carry on to the main summit. What’s missing is any acknowledgement that one is not the other. Instead they accept a slew of congratulations. The implication if left unaddressed is that it was close enough and it counts as a bonafide Summit or Makalu. The North summit is not the main summit. Perhaps I’m old fashioned but Shishapangma central clearly is not viewed as Shishapangma main. I own my effort for Shishapangma Central (and it helps my ego that no one made the main summit that year) but I know full well and make it very clear that it was not a true summit. Is the North summit of Makalu an exception? Clearly Mingma didn’t think so.

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By: Mountain Climber