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Bhodi posted:I find it really weird people freak out over that. The sky is over you and everything. Maybe I was made for spelunking and just found a new sport. You're just not claustrophobic. I am. I've been in a cave where I had to pretty much slither across the floor through a hole with my back touching the top. Hated every second of it. DicktheCat posted:Glad you were in a place with good healthcare! Me too! I even got a week's supply of T3s for free.
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Picnic Princess posted:You're just not claustrophobic. I am. I've been in a cave where I had to pretty much slither across the floor through a hole with my back touching the top. Hated every second of it. Yeah, I would never do this. Amigara fault jokes aside, the horror of being caught between a rock and a hard place keeps me awake some nights.
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Fojar38 posted:this is my hole it was made for me exactly what I was thinking of since someone posted it in the last thread
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We evolved from monkeys, not moles. If we'd evolved from moles we'd probably get freaked out being in wide open spaces or forests, and feel most comfortable when pressed from all sides by heavy, comforting earth.
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Zeike posted:
This is my hole! edit: beaten.
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I'd like to place a bet on 18, if that number hasn't already been taken by 3 folks. If it has, whatever the closest number. Also, the thing I found funniest about the Canadian lady and her terrible plans was that I have the same head torch as her, and I know for a fact that it's one of the cheapest you can buy on Amazon and lasts an absurdly short amount of time. That says it all, I guess. Excited for the climbing to start.
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Fatkraken posted:yeah, people occasionally die on Snowdon, a mountain with a train that runs to the top. I do a yearly trip to Snowdon (planning to do all the trails eventually) and have seen some real sights up there. First year I went up there was a rainstorm on the way down and it got pretty rough. I was wearing full layers and waterproofs and still got soaked, but just after the halfway point I passed a girl heading up in sneakers, jeans and a pleather jacket. She looked incredibly miserable and I had to stop and ask if she knew what she was doing and that she had missed the last train down so had another few hours of walking to go. She was in a group of students and the rest of them had walked on and were now about fifteen minutes in front. Total dick move as she had clearly never hiked before and didn't know the paths. Ended up giving her an emergency blanket and walking her up to within sight of the summit station. The time after that I met a woman pushing a toddler in a stroller up. I took a year off. Biggest mistake they ever made was putting the tourist signs up at the bottom, I know it's worth money to them but people think it's loving disneyland.
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Who is the fattest person to have climbed Everest?
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I'm convinced Asian girls have a deathwish when it comes to mountains. I went along with some friends for a winter summit earlier this year, and ended up driving up a fuckoff icy hill to get to the trailhead, meaning we were going to be out there for the night with nobody else on the mountain, no phone reception, etc. First of all we ended up being 2 hours late because her idea of "getting food on the way" was stopping at a packed-busy diner on a Sunday and waiting an hour in line for the church crowd, so a lot of the hike was in the dark. Then we get there and I expect her to change her clothes -- nope she's doing this in skinny jeans and a denim jacket. After it got dark I eventually forced the group to turn back and camp by the car after she fell into a pile of snow and got soaked. She wanted to keep going and I literally had to grab all of the supplies and walk off before anyone followed me. She probably would have died on some tiny gay mountain because WE DIDN'T REACH THE SUMMIT AND FROZEN LAKE AND I TOLD ALL MY INSTAGRAM FOLLOWERS THERE WOULD BE PICTURES. A lot of people grossly underestimate how quickly you can die when you're wet and the sun goes down in the winter.
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Applecross WC. posted:Who is the fattest person to have climbed Everest? Brian Blessed.
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Smiling Mandrill posted:Brian Blessed. he never summitted.
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bobfather posted:There's a whole 10+ minute video of various people trying to stuff themselves into that hole. It is apparently a backdoor orifice into a much larger cave that cavers like to explore. I am aware of how sexual all of this sounds, but it's true! What's it called? I don't really want to search for "man slides into tight backdoor hole"
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you were warned posted:I don't really want to search for "man slides into tight backdoor hole" Hmm, I had to insert "cave" to find it, without it the results were as expected. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FAY-t32vyds
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you were warned posted:What's it called? I don't really want to search for "man slides into tight backdoor hole" https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=m..._sm=93&ie=UTF-8 lol
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HEY VAPER posted:I'm convinced Asian girls have a deathwish when it comes to mountains. I went along with some friends for a winter summit earlier this year, and ended up driving up a fuckoff icy hill to get to the trailhead, meaning we were going to be out there for the night with nobody else on the mountain, no phone reception, etc. First of all we ended up being 2 hours late because her idea of "getting food on the way" was stopping at a packed-busy diner on a Sunday and waiting an hour in line for the church crowd, so a lot of the hike was in the dark. Then we get there and I expect her to change her clothes -- nope she's doing this in skinny jeans and a denim jacket. After it got dark I eventually forced the group to turn back and camp by the car after she fell into a pile of snow and got soaked. She wanted to keep going and I literally had to grab all of the supplies and walk off before anyone followed me. She probably would have died on some tiny gay mountain because WE DIDN'T REACH THE SUMMIT AND FROZEN LAKE AND I TOLD ALL MY INSTAGRAM FOLLOWERS THERE WOULD BE PICTURES. A lot of people grossly underestimate how quickly you can die when you're wet and the sun goes down in the winter. Its always fun trying to explain how dangerous hypothermia is to someone with no outdoor experience. One time me and a friend were out in the middle of nowhere in December like five miles from the nearest road. The days were still unusually warm but at night it was getting down to like 7 degrees. Anyway we were just getting set up for the night when a guy walks into our camp. He was soaking wet from trying to fish in a near by creek, and apparently falling in. He had stayed out later than he expected so he decided that he'd rather camp than walk back to his car. He ask if we would mind if he camps beside us, we say no. We watch as the guy pulls out a tarp and ties it between two trees. Then he says "I suppose this will do for the night." We stare at him for a second, and I'm like "Dude do you have a sleeping bag, and dry clothes?" The guy tells us he doesn't have anything but his tarp fishing pool and pack which had his lunch, water, and fishing poo poo. He tells us he should be fine sleeping out in the elements for one night. My friend says "You do know its going to get down to single didgets tonight?" The guy says he is aware but one night in the cold is no big deal, and hes going to hike out at first light. I then inform him that without dry clothes, or a bag there is a good chance he'll be dead before first light. Long story short we spend like an hour convincing this guy he needs to get back to his car and go home. Finally we just broke camp, and hiked back with him to make sure he went.
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Smiling Mandrill posted:Its always fun trying to explain how dangerous hypothermia is to someone with no outdoor experience. I went camping with a 'friend' once who brought a tarp and rope like that for a tent, and a bed sheet for sleeping bag. i thought he was bat poo poo insane (turned out after the hike which was early in our acquaintance, he completely was) It got surprisingly cold that night and I wondered if he was still alive, so I went out closer to his tent and listened to him snoring away. He was sleeping better than I was and it was about 35 degrees. I asked him the next day, wtf, and he nonchalantly just chalked it off to having Norwegian grandparents and went about the rest of the day mocking me for being having my own roots in southern europe and basically being genetically inferior on the camping trip... yeah it was weird, but I did come out of that experience thinking maybe those vikings really did have superhuman cold tolerance
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ethanol posted:I went camping with a 'friend' once who brought a tarp and rope like that for a tent, and a bed sheet for sleeping bag. i thought he was bat poo poo insane (turned out after the hike which was early in our acquaintance, he completely was) It got surprisingly cold that night and I wondered if he was still alive, so I went out closer to his tent and listened to him snoring away. He was sleeping better than I was and it was about 35 degrees. I asked him the next day, wtf, and he nonchalantly just chalked it off to having Norwegian grandparents and went about the rest of the day mocking me for being having my own roots in southern europe and basically being genetically inferior on the camping trip... yeah it was weird, but I did come out of that experience thinking maybe those vikings really did have superhuman cold tolerance You can get by like that if you have dry clothing, but once someone is wet all bets are off, and its time to get them out of there. Hypothermia can kill you real quick if its cold out.
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That hole-cave can gently caress itself. I'm pretty sure that if my choices were to try to fit through there or fight a bunch of hungry jackals chasing me, I'd grab a stick and wait for the jackals. Also, between our death pool and the corpse playing video games photoshop, I'm pretty sure we're all going to hell. See you there, I hope we don't have to squeeze through a tiny rock hole and climb a mountain covered in feces and icemummies for all eternity.
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Ars Arcanum posted:Also, between our death pool and the corpse playing video games photoshop, I'm pretty sure we're all going to hell. See you there, I hope we don't have to squeeze through a tiny rock hole and climb a mountain covered in feces and icemummies for all eternity. naw, we'll be way far back in the hell queue behind the fuckers who actually step OVER the dying on their way up and use corpses as useful landmarks. By the time we get to the doors mountain-hell will be full.
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Fatkraken posted:By the time we get to the doors mountain-hell will be full. But what will it be full of? My guess is faeces...
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All this talk about tiny holes made me think of ted the caver. I liked how the story of finding a new route into a cave was all real and he just embellished it with the 2SPOOKY fiction on top. The best part about it was this picture:
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Currently watching K2: Siren of the Himalayas on Netflix. Not bad.
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NaDy posted:All this talk about tiny holes made me think of ted the caver. I liked how the story of finding a new route into a cave was all real and he just embellished it with the 2SPOOKY fiction on top. The best part about it was this picture: how is there a camera in front of him
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Fojar38 posted:how is there a camera in front of him IIRC this was his trip back through the hole where his caving partner was waiting for him so he just reached into the hole and snapped a pic when he was close enough to the entrance
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Maybe if the rock is all warm, it's kind of cozy. It's like a earth vagina.
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I'm still pissed about that CBC show, and how they painted the Nepalese company who guided Shriya Shah-Klofirne and her Sherpas as some sort of irresponsible retards culpable in her death... And to help with that they present a Westerner as the epitome of responsible guide people with too much money up a mountain team leader. Speaking of which, gently caress you Russell Brice for pretending like the Sherpas should have done some sort of super human grab and carry down a woman on Hillary Step with summit fever. Just go watch your own loving reality TV show. At least Upmost Adventures' owner was on the mountain and tried to help by giving extra oxygen instead of sitting in their luxury tent at base camp. Furthermore, rear end in a top hat, as that same reality show demonstrates you had people you couldn't stop suffering from summit fever. The only difference being you got lucky and they didn't die. Finally, wasn't your loving reality show canceled after you essentially told your climbers to abandon a guy--who ultimately died--trying to summit without oxygen?
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ZombieLenin posted:I'm still pissed about that CBC show, and how they painted the Nepalese company who guided Shriya Shah-Klofirne and her Sherpas as some sort of irresponsible retards culpable in her death... And to help with that they present a Westerner as the epitome of responsible guide people with too much money up a mountain team leader. Nice call out.
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Demonachizer posted:Nice call out. raditts posted:I... I don't think that guy posts here, man. Thanks. I'm sure he's a goon and reading it right now. I mean if a rich former mountaineer who now sits on his rear end guiding rich people doing idiotic things is a goon, it's this guy. I hope he cries himself to sleep tonight. ZombieLenin fucked around with this message at 22:24 on Mar 21, 2015 |
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NaDy posted:All this talk about tiny holes made me think of ted the caver. I liked how the story of finding a new route into a cave was all real and he just embellished it with the 2SPOOKY fiction on top. The best part about it was this picture: Looks like a giant woman giving birth
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NaDy posted:All this talk about tiny holes made me think of ted the caver. I liked how the story of finding a new route into a cave was all real and he just embellished it with the 2SPOOKY fiction on top. The best part about it was this picture: Pretty sure angelfire only exists to keep this guy's site alive. http://www.angelfire.com/trek/caver/ Totally worth the read, by the way.
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After reading up on K2... man K2 doesn't give a poo poo. K2 will kill your rear end dead and not even give a gently caress.
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Smiling Mandrill posted:Its always fun trying to explain how dangerous hypothermia is to someone with no outdoor experience. This is a really great article describing the experience: http://www.outsideonline.com/outdoor-adventure/As-Freezing-Persons-Recollect-the-Snow--First-Chill--Then-Stupor--Then-the-Letting-Go.html e: Also contains this anecdote, which I can't really find anyhting other than a passing reference to: quote:In fact, many hypothermia victims die each year in the process of being rescued. In "rewarming shock," the constricted capillaries reopen almost all at once, causing a sudden drop in blood pressure. The slightest movement can send a victim's heart muscle into wild spasms of ventricular fibrillation. In 1980, 16 shipwrecked Danish fishermen were hauled to safety after an hour and a half in the frigid North Sea. They then walked across the deck of the rescue ship, stepped below for a hot drink, and dropped dead, all 16 of them. Gibfender fucked around with this message at 00:11 on Mar 22, 2015 |
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Hunterhr posted:After reading up on K2... man K2 doesn't give a poo poo. K2 will kill your rear end dead and not even give a gently caress. Neither does Kanchenchunga, the third highest peak. It's so remote and dangerous that people rarely attempt it, which is a good thing because those who do often die. Depending on the climbing season, it sometimes ratchets to the No. 1 spot in terms of kill rate, bypassing even K2 at times. It's also rumored to be haunted by a demon yeti, and even though a team of climbers found a route that seemed viable way back in 1905, Aleister Crowley of all people happened to be on the team and was like "gently caress this poo poo, we're going back." No one summited until 1955, and only around 200 climbers have ever summited successfully. It ate mountaineering legend/amputee Zsolt Eross a couple years ago. 
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spinst posted:Currently watching K2: Siren of the Himalayas on Netflix. Not bad. Just saw this new on Netflix, very timely for the season to start, I'm into it. Watching it now as a background thing while I do some Internet work. Seems good so far.
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Ars Arcanum posted:It's also rumored to be haunted by a demon yeti, and even though a team of climbers found a route that seemed viable way back in 1905, Aleister Crowley of all people happened to be on the team and was like "gently caress this poo poo, we're going back." No one summited until 1955, and only around 200 climbers have ever summited successfully. It ate mountaineering legend/amputee Zsolt Eross a couple years ago. Crowley was actually a very accomplished mountaineer, and wrote good accounts of his attempts on both K2 and Kanchenjunga in his Confessions autobiography. It is full of the rawest loving colonial British imperialism you will ever find, straight up Heart of Darkness poo poo. It's a great read basically. The dude was a straight up Englishman. Sandbagged his team hard by taking books and a chess board and so on, but also way racist towards the Italians and so on, and straight up noble savage with his intense respect of the Sherpas' religious devotion and so on. It's good stuff. Chogo-Ri this is where the K2 expedition stuff starts, and it goes on until chapter 41. Notable is chapter 38 I think where he talks about the "coolies." Dude is English as gently caress basically. The Englishest. I don't know what chapter has Kanchenjunga, I'll have to look for it.
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So now that the permit situation is cleared up, do we have a roster of who's going up this year?
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I think we should organize a goon base camp trip, where we all sit at base camp and pretend we are going up. We can get a huge luxury tent and hang banners of the most neckbeardy out of shape goons we can find photoshopped against an Everest background.
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I can see mountain climbing, for wuss mountains it's pretty fun. gently caress caves.
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