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Cobalt Chloride posted:They went to all the trouble of making a plaque with the 'j' in January not capitalized. A fitting tribute. I like that the plaque itself is just inexpertly wedged down into the cement equivalent of a pile of feces.
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PostNouveau posted:I hope the tide is turning against the standard practices that keep getting people killed, and maybe the expedition leaders will take care and only take a reasonable number of qualified climbers up. That could happen... or rich white people can throw money at Sherpas and the cycle continues.
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Can I choose -1, in that some rich pregnant woman will show up at base camp, get up a few thousand feet, and experience the miracle of childbirth on the mountain?
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Mar 17, 2015 02:24
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No, someone already thought of that.
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Mar 17, 2015 04:15
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22, if that's still available. open the blood gates!
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Catpain Slack posted:More like 2d6 climbers. I am down for this
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Mar 17, 2015 09:38
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It is 0300, you and 200 other climbers are preparing for a summit push. Roll for initiative!
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Herr Tog posted:I am down for this http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/105059/k2-broad-peak
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http://allday.com/post/2705-mount-everest-is-a-fecal-time-bombquote:To make matters worse, climbers are forced to relieve themselves over small crevasses in the summit as they travel upwards. The backslide of human waste down the mountain prompted Outside magazine editor Grayson Schaffer to call Everest a 'fecal time bomb.' fecal time bomb
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Mar 18, 2015 00:30
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Lol holy poo poo (I guess literally)
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Mar 18, 2015 00:53
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cant wait for it to finally give and for some poor bastard to win the avalanche lottery
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so the author extrapolates 1.6M lbs of poo poo on everest from a current poo poo weight sample in the sentence before acknowledging that more people climb the mountain now? i mean i knew Mallory was hardcore, i just never realized he personally dropped ten tons of logs up and down the mountain
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Mar 18, 2015 01:04
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Thats bad math but to be fair doing that only puts us back thirty years. Nepal should be nipping this poop problem in the bud before it gets serious.
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Mar 18, 2015 03:15
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To reach the Mountain Of Corpses you have to traverse the Fields Of poo poo. What's next, a pool of blood?
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Mar 18, 2015 10:08
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By 2020 all the snow above the base camp will be bright yellow.
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Default Settings posted:To reach the Mountain Of Corpses you have to traverse the Fields Of poo poo. To be fair, the Khumbu Poop Falls does have a certain je ne sais quoi about it. Imagine slowly dying of exposure and dehydration after falling down a poop ravine because of the methane explosion. (yes, I am 5 years old)
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Ogive posted:To be fair, the Khumbu Poop Falls does have a certain je ne sais quoi about it. Imagine slowly dying of exposure and dehydration after falling down a poop ravine because of the methane explosion. Would there be enough methane for an explosion? Frozen poo poo don't stink.
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Ogive posted:To be fair, the Khumbu Poop Falls does have a certain je ne sais quoi about it. Imagine slowly dying of exposure and dehydration after falling down a poop ravine because of the methane explosion. the mountain literally farts you out
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So do dysentery deaths count?
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What the gently caress? I've hiked to places where we've had to literally poo poo into a bag and pack it out because high-altitude environments, especially near shales and other fossil beds, can be really fragile. In Antarctic islands, I believe longer expeditions would dehydrate their waste as well, and I was too afraid to ask how that's done. I had to piss into bottles like a mental patient because piss could only be dumped in certain inconvenient areas. Every few days, you'd trudge down the mountain and do the piss-bottle walk of shame. Do you know how difficult it is to piss into pop bottles that you brought because you had no prior bottle-pissing experience? God drat let me tell you, there's a reason why the experienced guys had splurged for 3 liter wide-mouth canteens, because piss bottle blowback is a bitch. Meanwhile at the "most sacred mountain on earth," people are building a literal mountain of trash, poo poo and poo.
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It's broken window syndrome. Someone before you left their garbage and poo poo all over the mountain, so obviously that's just what we do here, and it's OK.
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Mar 18, 2015 18:38
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I'd like to bet on the number 29, which is my current age. Hopefully, no Sherpa will be hurt this year.
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Soon, rich people will pay to reach the peak of poo poo-Everest.
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This National Geographic live talk has a guy talking about Everest's poo poo issue. Think it's the last ten minutes or so. https://youtu.be/megSEXmV0nQ
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If all the conditions were a smidge* they could just turn the corpse field into a fertilized garden  *not whipped by storms, dessicating winds, exposed to nil oxygen and far less solar radiation and also hosted any life at all besides idiots
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Ague Proof posted:Soon, rich people will pay to reach the peak of poo poo-Everest. Everyone should have to poop at the summit. Final trudge up the poop cap, growing higher every year.
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We need to finish global warming so the permafrost line moves far enough up slope to allow microbes and plants to grow and break that poo poo down.
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Everyone just needs to start trucking their poo poo up to the summit, so mountain gets taller every year, and then everyone wants to rush in to claim a new record. And thus, the mountain has a never-ending food supply.
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Picnic Princess posted:We need to finish global warming so the permafrost line moves far enough up slope to allow microbes and plants to grow and break that poo poo down. But then people will get lost because some of the landmark corpses will rot away. 
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Their relatively indestructible synthetic clothing will last on long after Chia Climbers begin to sprout. Well, until the UV rays bleach it all white and then oh well
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drat, I've been looking for this thread since January and finally found it this week. The video of the French helicopter pilot landing on the summit of Everest is amazing - and it made me realize that the summit is a lot bigger than what I thought. I was under the impression that it wasn't much bigger than 10x10'. Jumping on 16 on the Death Pool. I hope it's not but you never know with angry mountain gods.
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Here I thought the summit was a point of rock you could dislodge someone from with a firm push.
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Meanwhile, a record 45 people survived K2 in 2014, with only 1 fatality. This angers K2, Mountain of Mountains, which boasts a 23% fatality rate. Silicon Valley culture should start considering Everest to be passe, a sign of stagnant thinking and follower mentality, while K2 is a truly outstanding climb for dynamic outside-the-box thinkers. K2 hungers. My favorite bit of possibly-apocryphal K2 lore is that when a cartographer asked the locals "What do you call that?", someone said "Chogori". So Mt. Chogori was considered as a name until someone bothered translating it and realized that chogori is Tibetan for "a big mountain", so it was just sarcasm.
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Syd Midnight posted:Meanwhile, a record 45 people survived K2 in 2014, with only 1 fatality. This angers K2, Mountain of Mountains, which boasts a 23% fatality rate. Silicon Valley culture should start considering Everest to be passe, a sign of stagnant thinking and follower mentality, while K2 is a truly outstanding climb for dynamic outside-the-box thinkers. K2 hungers. Multiply this by 1000, and you're telling the story of how a bunch of the rivers/mountains in America got their name.
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I'll say the number is -1 -- not only will everyone make it, but they'll find a survivor from a past season that was presumed dead, revive an ice man, or the First Pregnant South Western Brazilian Woman Born In The 1980s to climb Everest will give birth at base camp
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Hey, did any video game nerd ever go to Everest base camp? Wasn't that a prize being given away by the geniuses behind FarCry 4? PostNouveau posted:Multiply this by 1000, and you're telling the story of how a bunch of the rivers/mountains in America got their name. The offensive ones are the best. Our best local mountain name is Squaw's Tit. How it still is that, I'm not sure, especially after there was a successful campaign to rename Chinaman Peak that is literally only a couple kilometers away.
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Picnic Princess posted:Hey, did any video game nerd ever go to Everest base camp? Wasn't that a prize being given away by the geniuses behind FarCry 4? My favorite is Big Titties National Park. Grand Tetons
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Picnic Princess posted:Hey, did any video game nerd ever go to Everest base camp? Wasn't that a prize being given away by the geniuses behind FarCry 4?  http://far-cry.ubi.com/en-US/everest/news-detail.aspx?c=tcm:152-183577-16&ct=tcm:148-76770-32
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Rondette posted:
Goddamnit western civilization.
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