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Scientists have discovered why Mount Everest
makes terrifying noises at night - and
the reason might surprise you

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Posted By: Hazymac, 5/2/2023 11:33:33 AM

Once the sun sets on the Himalayas and temperatures drop, a cacophony of eerie noises erupts deep within the glaciers around Mount Everest. Researchers led by the glaciologist Evgeny Podolskiy have found that the chorus of crashing and splintering noises in the high-altitude glaciers is a result of sharp drops in temperature after dark that causes ice to crack. The team pinpointed the cause of the sounds in 2018 after spending more than a week trekking through the Nepalese Himalayas to test the seismic activity of the Trakarding-Trambau Glacier system there. Dr Podolskiy and his team spent three weeks shivering on the glacier in full view of Mt Everest,

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At this time of the year, Everest (plus Lhotse and Nuptse) base camp, at 17,600 feet elevation just below Khumbu icefall, will be full of climbers hoping to stand on top of the world. Not all will make it back down the mountain.

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Reply 1 - Posted by: Bur Oak 5/2/2023 11:48:41 AM (No. 1461127)
Who pays for these studies to answer questions nobody asks?
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Reply 2 - Posted by: konocti95 5/2/2023 11:51:32 AM (No. 1461131)
No, I'm really not surprised.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: LC Chihuahua 5/2/2023 11:56:51 AM (No. 1461137)
Interesting story, but.. New talking point! The Himalayas are melting! Can't stand the Climate Change crowd. The new talking point was probably the main subject of this story for some people. Gotta inject climate change everywhere.
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Reply 4 - Posted by: Avikingman 5/2/2023 11:58:02 AM (No. 1461138)
I've read a lot of John McPhee's writings, many of which are based upon geology, yet still prove that good writing can make anything arcane a treat for non scientists. For instance did you know that the tip of Mt Everest was once 3 miles under water?
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Reply 5 - Posted by: Hazymac 5/2/2023 12:04:04 PM (No. 1461143)
Glaciers are slowly moving rivers of ice that move less than a yard a day, but must keep moving with blocks of ice as large as houses. When something that large shifts, it's loud. Avalanches, rockfall, and icefall also happen regularly up high, and climbers hear them boom, praying not to be in the way. Nighttime temperatures can go below minus 40 Fahrenheit with winds in the death zone that can exceed 100 miles per hour. Very unfriendly to life. A business associate of my brother made it to the summit of Everest some twenty years ago, but by then the mountain was full of climbers, waiting their turn at various places. Almost too dangerous to consider today. It's a shame that the Daily Mail cheapens their articles by climbing on Al Gore's soap box and flacking against anthropogenic (man made) "climate change," which affects the climate (weather) only at the margins, if at all. Puny humanity cannot have any measurable effect on the climate. The Greens are liars all the time.
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Reply 6 - Posted by: 49 Ford 5/2/2023 12:18:34 PM (No. 1461155)
Interesting article, but they had to work the climate change angle into it (with all of the implicit condemnation of mankind, especially America).
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Reply 7 - Posted by: BarryNo 5/2/2023 12:47:36 PM (No. 1461167)
I hadn't heard of such noises, prior to this article, but I knew what it was before I got out of the headline.
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Reply 8 - Posted by: Highlander 5/2/2023 1:44:32 PM (No. 1461193)
So many scientists are falling into conformity with the faddy climate hoaxes. I very seldom find any science-based articles without that taint.
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Reply 9 - Posted by: Strike3 5/2/2023 3:03:44 PM (No. 1461223)
We could have guessed that from right here, without risking our necks on a frozen mountain. Louis Agassiz, a Swiss professor, climbed mountains there over a hundred years ago and discovered the very same thing.
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Reply 10 - Posted by: Luandir 5/2/2023 3:27:46 PM (No. 1461249)
Things cool and contract after sundown? Who knew? (The same thing can be said of Joe Biden, of course.)
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Reply 11 - Posted by: Roscoelewis 5/2/2023 4:19:20 PM (No. 1461276)
I thought that noise was those Sasquatch squabbling.
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Reply 12 - Posted by: Hermit_Crab 5/2/2023 4:52:44 PM (No. 1461296)
So it isn't the Yetis' mating calls?
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Reply 13 - Posted by: Hermit_Crab 5/2/2023 4:56:46 PM (No. 1461297)
Aw, #11 beat me to it. GMTA!
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Reply 14 - Posted by: danu 5/2/2023 6:21:41 PM (No. 1461341)
taos, n.m . has a hum. and it's free.
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Reply 15 - Posted by: Rumblehog 5/2/2023 7:42:15 PM (No. 1461368)
So what kind of temperature change are we talking about here between the daytime high and nighttime low? Doing my own research revealed it to be about a12 degC difference year round with the summer max/min being +12 degC day to +5degC at night. They sure feel compelled to put in mentions about "climate change." Amazingly, there are well over a hundred corpses littering the paths to the summit, yet, none are easily visible anymore, due to being covered in snow and ice.
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