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GERMAN CLIMBER JOST Kobusch has posted a clip of the moment a massive avalanche struck Everest base camp on Saturday.
The video shows climbers at the busy Himalayas camp observing that the “ground is shaking” – before realising, with shouts of “f*ck” that a huge cloud of snow and ice is descending from the mountain.
Saturday’s avalanche, caused by a massive earthquake in Nepal, buried part of base camp and killed at least 18 people.
Aftershocks set off fresh avalanches on the mountain yesterday, even as helicopters evacuated some of those worst injured the day before.
Hundreds of mountaineers had gathered at Everest at the start of the annual climbing season, and the real scale of the disaster there has been impossible to evaluate with communications all but cut off.
At least two Americans died in the avalanche – a doctor working for a mountain guide company and a Google executive, their organisations said. Japan’s foreign ministry said that at least “one (Japanese) man in his 50s” was killed in the avalanche.
Irish climbers who had been in the area have been posting on social media and contacting home by phone to let people know they are safe.
Includes reporting from AFP.
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My advice. Don’t bother looking till you have mortgage approval. It could take 2 years. The market changes so frequently you’ll only be disappointed. Secondly understand the different estate agents. Sherry Fitz over price their clients houses to get a bigger fee. The guide price you see is exactly that. Offer €100k below. Sure who knows. Also keep and eye on listings. If they’ve been up for a while, they are obviously struggling to sell. That’s to your advantage.
@Danny Sherrard: offer 100k below in a sellers market? Good luck with that.
@Danny Sherrard:
This is why it should be a set fee so the prices aren’t just ballooned so much.
@Danny Sherrard: what house is going for €100k under asking in this market? Can you provide one example?
@Elaine Phelan: or be dope and offer the asking price. People like you are the reason house prices are crazy. Start low is all I say. I got my house in 2020, €40k below asking price.
When you view a home online have a careful look at the garden and try and see what flowers are blooming, whether it’s spring summer or autumn etc This can give you some indication as to how long it’s been on the market or whether it’s been relisted. It can either be a red flag indicating problems with the neighbourhood, or simply too high an asking price, in which case you might get away with offering less than anticipated.
@Liz O’Neill: On the likes of Daft there is usually a listed date.
1. Location. Close to work/family/what you love.
2. Cost v lifestyle. Make a choice, if you want holidays & fun etc buy a house with a smaller mortgage. If you prioritise a large home over everything else – go as big as you can afford.
3. Time. Which is it? Happy paying back a 35+ yr loan & see it as rent anyway (and if anything happens that’s what insurance is for). OR do you want to pay off your fast.
4. Future. Planning a family? Buy a house with that extra room to allow those teens some time away from you/a play room when they are young.
5. Short-term/life term. Buy big & sell when kids are gone -downsize? Buy small & upgrade? Do what most do – make do? Have a plan.
6. cheap furniture for the short term to fill the house & upgrade/only buy the best of the best bit by bit?
Go abroad, do the hard graft and save for couple of years, come back and buy where you know. Not for everyone, but time does fly.
Use your passport, it’s very valuable.
have your say