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Internet Kraken posted:In the case of photoshop lady, her guide straight up did say she was going to die if she went up the mountain. Multiple times in fact. First, he refused to summit with her because he thought she would get herself and others killed. Then he dumped her in the hands of two inexperienced sherpas so he wouldn't have to deal with her. Later he ran into her on the way to the summit, saw she didn't have nearly enough oxygen to climb, and told her in no uncertain terms she was about get herself killed. She still didn't listen and well you know how that ended. At the end of the Doc her family tries to blame the Neplaese Govt and the sherpas for her stupidity. Dumasses. Her husband oddly doesnt seem upset about her death.
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 David Sharp was a source of controversy, he was part of an 'expedition' which was as budget as you could get, you pretty much paid for a permit and were left to your own devices. 3 other people from that group died that year. Despite being a good climber he was woefully unprepared, I seem to remember reading somewhere that in his tent they found something tragic like a chess set and a copy of the works of Shakespeare, no gloves, goggles or equipment. Russell Brice's team got major flack that year as they passed him as he was dying....sources are mixed on whether or not they tried to help, although there is film footage of them seeing what they thought was a body. For some reason a chap called Mark Inglis got the most vitriol. The dude was a DOUBLE AMPUTEE. http://eightsummits.com/bills-articles/the-tragic-death-of-david-sharp/ Here is the page I got the Sharp image from, with quite a few other Everest casualties images. Some are pretty  http://altereddimensions.net/2012/dead-bodies-on-mount-everest Rondette fucked around with this message at 11:48 on Jan 13, 2015 |
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bollig posted:In stark contrast to the yellow suited retard, here's Steve McKinney who hangglided (hangglid?) off of Everest: Successfully hang glides off of Everest, dies in car accident 4 years later.
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Nigmaetcetera posted:I'm gonna start an adventure tour travel agency, but we're just gonna kill all our customers, drain as much of their money as we can, and claim they died on the great adventure they paid to go on. In reality, the unconscious bodies will be auctioned off to wealthy cannibals immediately after we gently caress 'em up with the captive bolt gun. Hell I bet there's people who would pay for THAT. Time for my annual "remind me not to piss of nigmaetcetera" post
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I don't understand why they don't offer a cheap $10,000 package where they send you to a Motel 6 in Idaho for two months, and then send you home with a folder of Photoshopped Everest summit photos.
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SaltLick posted:Hey guys I climbed a 20ft rock climbing wall rated a 5.6 WELP TIME FOR EVEREST That's a pretty poo poo belay job
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Happy Hedonist posted:Successfully hang glides off of Everest, dies in car accident 4 years later. Lincoln Hall was an awesome climber who survived a night above 8000m in 2006, he was done in by asbestos poisoning a couple of years ago  His story was, among other things, made into a documentary.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9oQRpG5Mx5g
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Axetrain posted:Someone explain more about deep caving (besides on my mom, lol) that sounds potentially even more dangerous and terrifying. It's quite fun and easy. I've done it before. I'm not really well-versed on the finer points though since I don't have a cave diving certification. Strongly considering Everest next year.
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Sadly, Yellowsuit Photoshop Woman was successfully taken down the mountain and cremated in her native Kathmandu, so her idiocy only lives on as internet memes, her defunct facebook, and folk tales - rather than a yellow Canadian flag-draped mummy that climbers can look to and re-evaluate their (soon to be over) lives.
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so, has anyone made a porn parody of that canadian lady climbing everest?
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TOILETLORD posted:so, has anyone made a porn parody of that canadian lady climbing everest? Yeah just waiting on ur mom to finish signing off on the release
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I've made it my new goal in life to climb Everest, chug a liter of Dew, then nestle the empty bottle in the frozen bosom of the sherpa who carried me to the summit.
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Tipps posted:Sadly, Yellowsuit Photoshop Woman was successfully taken down the mountain and cremated in her native Kathmandu, so her idiocy only lives on as internet memes, her defunct facebook, and folk tales - rather than a yellow Canadian flag-draped mummy that climbers can look to and re-evaluate their (soon to be over) lives. That's loving bullshit. Why'd they take the time to drag her unwanted corpse down from the mountain when so many others are still up there? Honestly I now want to have my body laid to rest at the summit. The ultimate sky burial. 
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Hitlers Gay Secret posted:That's loving bullshit. Why'd they take the time to drag her unwanted corpse down from the mountain when so many others are still up there? You would just get blown off the top when a strong gust of wind came and get pushed down a crevice with a ton of garbage and other corpses. I guess that would be a fitting resting place for a goon.
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gonna go up to green boots and 69 him
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JB50 posted:At the end of the Doc her family tries to blame the Neplaese Govt and the sherpas for her stupidity. Dumasses. south asian wives are a dime a dozen he got a bossy narcissist instead of an obedient waifu and he gets to start over truly a blessing
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Nigmaetcetera posted:I'm gonna start an adventure tour travel agency, but we're just gonna kill all our customers, drain as much of their money as we can, and claim they died on the great adventure they paid to go on. In reality, the unconscious bodies will be auctioned off to wealthy cannibals immediately after we gently caress 'em up with the captive bolt gun. Hell I bet there's people who would pay for THAT. sell off well preserved corpses to cannibals instead of for medical parts that could total almost 2 million dollars a pop? loving amateur
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Hitlers Gay Secret posted:That's loving bullshit. Why'd they take the time to drag her unwanted corpse down from the mountain when so many others are still up there? IIRC, her family wanted the body removed, and paid a huge amount of money for sherpas to risk their lives to do so. Also, I think it's technically illegal to leave bodies on the mountain and the locals really aren't fond of having their holy pile of rock and snow covered in foreign icemummies. So they'll often do corpse retrieval if people die in (or the elements move them to) an accessible place. Ones in the Death Zone are a lot less likely to be bothered with since it's hard to do anything there other than try to get out as soon as possible.
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Hello, thread. I love you. You're like a comfy faded blue cardigan that makes itself anew every year.
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I watched the documentary last night, and holy poo poo, that adventure company sounds awesome. It's interesting though watching people do this, as someone who wants to take up club car racing later in life. Even with all the safety tech and modifications you have to make to race even at a club level, I would still feel slightly irresponsible doing it if I had a wife, kids etc. It's kind of spectacular watching people with no mountaineering experience decide they'll just jump right in and try to summit the tallest mountain in the world with its documented crowding issues and the death zone. LIke I feel I would be more prepared to climb Everest at the moment than Yellowjacket ever was just because I've read this thread in GBS.
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SaltLick posted:She'd probably have been fine if she didn't waste 30 minutes up there loving around. that summit pic wasn't going to photoshop itself you know
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SaltLick posted:She'd probably have been fine if she didn't waste 30 minutes up there loving around. I watched that bit and I had to stop myself shouting at the screen. Stupid foolish woman. Thanks for the link to that, I am running out of Everest documentaries to watch. mookface posted:The Canadian lady's story is hilarious. The film about the 1996 season comes out in September this year, hooray! http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2719848/?ref_=nv_sr_1
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SaltLick posted:She'd probably have been fine if she didn't waste 30 minutes up there loving around. Seriously, this was probably the most ridiculous thing she did (aside from coming in the first place with absolutely no mountaineering experience at all). Most people hang out on the summit just long enough to admire the view for a few minutes and take a few photos. Then they get the hell out of Dodge because it's dangerous up there and since tons of rich morons have added Everest to their bucket list, there's probably a line behind you. She was already in severe distress on her ascent, and the descent is much more difficult and potentially lethal for a lot of climbers. But no, she sits up there for half an hour like her brain hasn't been slowly killing itself for the past 18 hours.
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SaltLick posted:She'd probably have been fine if she didn't waste 30 minutes up there loving around. She ran out of oxygen so early on in the descent that I doubt it even mattered. I mean it sure as hell didn't help her chances, but she was probably doomed the moment she decided to try to summit despite not having nearly enough oxygen to make it back down.
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OP, can you add this previous thread to your list: 2015 thread im not mad, i just want some acknowlegdgement, thanks in advance
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I'm not sure how credible this is, but does make for interesting reading: http://www.alanarnette.com/blog/2014/12/15/everest-2014-cost-climb-everest/
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i know that when i scuba dive 200 feet and run really low on air i just ignore it and continue on my awesome sea adventure hell yea
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Last Chance posted:OP, can you add this previous thread to your list: I saw that. I'm sorry I posted in this thread instead. I did it because Rondette often posts bits of her sweet rear end collection of 8000-er death mountain books/links.
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Last Chance posted:OP, can you add this previous thread to your list: Yeah sorry bud, I had no idea you had started one, and I had to keep my Everest fix going! Added yours to the OP. I'll get round to posting some pics of and from my books tomorrow.... Rondette fucked around with this message at 00:41 on Jan 14, 2015 |
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Gonna yoink this from your thread too....Serak posted:The Australian girl who was aiming to be the youngest woman* to climb Everest is having another go this year
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Rondette posted:Gonna yoink this from your thread too.... Yah... Totally called that one. Junior popsicle in training (sadly).
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Rondette posted:The film about the 1996 season comes out in September this year, hooray! Nice, good cast too
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i wonder if there's some sort of academic document explaining exactly what drives people to think climbing everest is going to improve their lives or is even a good idea
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ThePutty posted:i wonder if there's some sort of academic document explaining exactly what drives people to think climbing everest is going to improve their lives or is even a good idea Handbook of Psychiatry: Volume 4, The Neuroses and Personality Disorders
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i mean if you've climbed mountains as a genuine, serious interest and hobby throughout your life going to everest makes perfect sense, but apparently 'ANYONE CAN ACHIEVE IF THEY JUST BELIEVE'
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OP your youtube playlist is missing the best climbing documentary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hc2XJT9NP1E What can go wrong? Oh gently caress I broke my leg on top of the mountain and now my friend needs to slowly lower me down bit by bit. Oh gently caress now it's storming. Oh gently caress now he lowered me over a ledge and we're stuck sitting like this cause he can't see cause the storm and doesn't know. Oh gently caress he cut the rope. Oh gently caress I've fallen into a deep crevasse and my friend thinks I'm dead and left. Oh gently caress my legs are messed up and I can't get up. Might as well go down further. Oh great I found the way out but now I have to crawl for (I think it was 2 days?) over a bunch of hidden crevasses. A dude who fell into a crevasse 70 feet down but landed on a ledge and climbed out https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZ4TWYoJIc8
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JB50 posted:Her husband oddly doesnt seem upset about her death. imagine being married to that woman and you will undestand why he feels so relaxed
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