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ZombieLenin: Sep 6, 2009; "Democracy for the insignificant minority, democracy for the rich--that is the democracy of capitalist society." VI Lenin

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I might climb Mt. Everest. Right after they put in an escalator and lightweight pressurized astronaut suits become feasible.

# ? Mar 23, 2015 14:54

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# ? May 18, 2024 03:08

Ehud: Sep 19, 2003; football.

Hey if you like mountains there is a cool documentary about climbing K2. It's on Netflix instant.

I watched it yesterday.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TB4rTolvnFY

When I turned it on my wife was like, "Why do you like mountains so much?" lol

# ? Mar 23, 2015 20:45

Moridin920: Nov 15, 2007; by FactsAreUseless

I met some fool that said he was the highest American but then he couldn't even finish the blunt with me

Disgraceful

# ? Mar 23, 2015 21:14

Sono: Apr 9, 2008

PostNouveau posted:

Future generations of climbers may be using this guy's corpse as a landmark.

"Yeah, once you reach Bitcoin Bob, you're about 80% of the way to the summit. He's easy to spot because his sherpas wrapped him in his stupid flag."

elwood posted:

"Yeah, once you reach Bitcoin Bob, you are almost ready to start the climb. He is right next to the casino tent and was stabbed by a sherpa after trying to scam the poo poo out of everyone."

# ? Mar 24, 2015 00:34

Cojawfee: May 31, 2006; I think the US is dumb for not using Celsius

Cross posting from the bitcoin thread:

In true Bitcoin fashion, I've made a graph of this bitcoin on Everest situation. As you can see, base camp is very close to the summit. Close enough really. The hardest part is clearly getting to base camp in the first place, Getting to the summit is just a gentle slope that anyone could walk.

# ? Mar 24, 2015 00:53

SulfurMonoxideCute: Feb 9, 2008; I was under direct orders not to die
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Cojawfee posted:

Cross posting from the bitcoin thread:

In true Bitcoin fashion, I've made a graph of this bitcoin on Everest situation. As you can see, base camp is very close to the summit. Close enough really. The hardest part is clearly getting to base camp in the first place, Getting to the summit is just a gentle slope that anyone could walk.

Oh my god that is loving stupid.

# ? Mar 24, 2015 00:55

Cojawfee: May 31, 2006; I think the US is dumb for not using Celsius

The log scale is the only way to represent data. I don't see what is so stupid about it.

# ? Mar 24, 2015 00:57

George H.W. Cunt: Oct 6, 2010

really though it would be sweet to see what everest looks like from sea level if it was just a giant gently caress off mountain

# ? Mar 24, 2015 01:00

Renfield: Feb 29, 2008

Picnic Princess posted:

Oh my god that is loving stupid.

Welcome to bitcoin !

# ? Mar 24, 2015 01:05

the holy poopacy: May 16, 2009; hey! check this out; Fun Shoe

SaltLick posted:

really though it would be sweet to see what everest looks like from sea level if it was just a giant gently caress off mountain

Dig a giant pit 15,000 feet deep at the base of the mountain.

Then when you've gotten your pics of Everest from sea level, you can just toss all the trash, poop, and corpses in the hole.

# ? Mar 24, 2015 01:26

stringball: Mar 17, 2009

SaltLick posted:

really though it would be sweet to see what everest looks like from sea level if it was just a giant gently caress off mountain

There's this for a good idea I suppose

# ? Mar 24, 2015 01:56

Bip Roberts: Mar 29, 2005

Cojawfee posted:

Cross posting from the bitcoin thread:

In true Bitcoin fashion, I've made a graph of this bitcoin on Everest situation. As you can see, base camp is very close to the summit. Close enough really. The hardest part is clearly getting to base camp in the first place, Getting to the summit is just a gentle slope that anyone could walk.

Umm, sea level should be at 0. Why didn't they mark it at zero on that log scale?

# ? Mar 24, 2015 02:00

SulfurMonoxideCute: Feb 9, 2008; I was under direct orders not to die
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Found someone to watch this year! :siren:

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/calgary-man-to-attempt-new-route-on-mt-everest-1.3005301

This is an astronomy prof at the university I go to. He's actually a pretty badass guy, but he's trying a completely new route from China with two other mountaineers, no Sherpas, no oxygen.

So this will either be completely awesome or a big disaster.

At least we have one person so far who's actually been on a mountain before instead of just going to an indoor climbing gym a few times to 'condition'.

# ? Mar 24, 2015 02:09

Cojawfee: May 31, 2006; I think the US is dumb for not using Celsius

Bip Roberts posted:

Umm, sea level should be at 0. Why didn't they mark it at zero on that log scale?

Because Excel doesn't accept 0 on graphs with a log scale.

# ? Mar 24, 2015 03:56

TheChaosPath: Jul 22, 2005

Cojawfee posted:

Because Excel doesn't accept 0 on graphs with a log scale.

# ? Mar 24, 2015 04:44

gohuskies: Oct 23, 2010; I spend a lot of time making posts to justify why I'm not a self centered shithead that just wants to act like COVID isn't a thing.

SteveVizsla posted:

I was in a bookstore the other day that had a ton on climbing, so I took photos of the fronts and backs and typed this up. I didn't include Touching the Void, Into Thin Air, High Crimes, anything by Krakauer, etc.

Everest

Everest - The First Ascent: How a Champion of Science Helped to Conquer the Mountain - Harriet Tuckey, 2014. This won a bunch of awards last year. Tuckey's father was Dr.Griffith Pugh, the scientist and strategist on Hilary's team in 1953 as well as the father of altitude medicine.

Blind Descent: Surviving Alone and Blind on Mount Everest - Brian Dickinson, 2014. Brian's Sherpa turns back 1,000ft from the summit, but dumb Brian decides to still try and summit, alone. He reached it, then lost his vision and had to climb down blind, relying on "his Navy survival training, his gut instinct, and his faith."

The Mountain: My Time on Everest - Ed Viesturs, 2013. Viesturs explores the history of the mountain, various tragedies, etc. while giving accounts from his 11 trips and 7 summits of Everest.

Dark Summit: The True Story of Everest's Most Controversial Season - Nick Heil, 2009. Largely focuses on the 2006 deaths, particularly David Sharp (the Brit who alive but everyone kept walking right by), but also goes into how the popularity of Everest is causing riskier expeditions, bad climbing teams out for money, idiots climbing, and all of the stuff we routinely talk about.

Above the Clouds: The Diaries of a High-Altitude Mountaineer - Anatoli Boukreev, 2002. Covers his life climbing, including Denali, K2, and the 1996 Everest climb. He died on Annapurna in 1997.

The Climb: Tragic Ambitions on Everest - Anatoli Boukreev, 1999. The 1996 Everest disaster from one of the climbers who saved people. This edition includes some stuff from after the tragedy, along with co-author DeWalt's rebuttal to Krakauer about Into Thin Air.

High Exposure: An Enduring Passion for Everest and Unforgiving Places - David Breashears, 2000. Climber and filmmaker Breashears explores the why of climbing, with particular focus on Everest and the 96 climbing season.

Left For Dead: My Journey Home from Everest - Beck Weathers, 2001. Weathers was part of the 1996 climb, was left for dead, but managed to survive. Covers the climb, his survival, and his "life journey."

My Father, Frank: Unresting Spirit of Everest - Tony Smythe, 2013. Frank Smythe climbed various Himilayan mountains in the 30s, and in 1933 reached within 800ft of Everest's peak.

Touching My Father's Soul: A Sherpa's Journey to the Top of Everest - Jamling Norgay, 2002. Jamling was the Climbing Leader in 1996. He blends the story of his 1996 climb with ones from his father's climb as well as giving an inside look at Sherpas.

K2

Buried in the Sky: The Extraordinary Story of the Sherpa Climbers on K2's Deadliest Day - Peter Zuckerman, Amanda Padoan, 2013. Follows the stories of the two sherpas who survived K2 in 2008, out of the 13 who climbed it.

No Way Down: Life and Death on K2 - Graham Bowley, 2011. Another about K2 in 2008.

One Mountain Thousand Summits: The Untold Story of Tragedy and True Heroism on K2 - Freddie Wilkinson, 2011. Yet another about the 2008 deaths.

The Last Man on the Mountain: The Death of an American Adventurer on K2 - Jennifer Jordan, 2011. About the 1939 climb and death of K2's first victim, Dudley Wolfe. The author is the one who found his body 60+ years later.

K2 the 1939 Tragedy - Andrew Kauffman, 1993. Another about the 1938 and 1939 climbs.

Savage Summit: The Life and Death of the First Women of K2 - Jennifer Jordan, 2005. Only 6 women have climbed K2 (as of the book's publishing), and half died on the way down. This covers all 6.

K2: Triumph and Tragedy - Jim Curran, 1989. The 1986 climbing season of K2, when 27 summited but 13 died.

K2: Life and Death on the World's Most Dangerous Mountain - Ed Viesturs, 2010. The mountain's history and 7 of the most deadly years.

OTHER MOUNTAINS

One More Step: My Story of Living with Cerebral Palsy, Climbing Kilimanjaro, and Surviving the Hardest Race on Earth - Bonner Paddock, Neal Bascomb, March 10 2015. Self explanatory.

Where the Mountain Casts Its Shadow: The Dark Side of Extreme Adventure - Maria Coffey, 2005. Interviews with top climbers, widows of dead climbers, the families of climbers, etc. Coffey's husband Joe Tasker died on Everest in 1982.

The Mammoth Book of Mountain Disasters: True Accounts of Rescue from the Brink of Death - Edited by Hamish MacInnes, 2003. 35 First hand accounts.

Tilting at Mountains: Love, Tragedy, and Triumph on the World's Highest Peaks - Edurne Pasaban, 2014. The first woman to climb all 14 8,000 meter peaks.

Mountains In My Heart: A Passion for Climbing - Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner, 2014. First woman to climb all 14 8,000 meter peaks without oxygen.

Reinhold Messner: My Life at the Limit - Reinhold Messner, 2014. Interview between Messner and Thomas Huetlin. Covers climbing, Antarctica, hiking across the Gobi and Tibet, being a member of the European Parliament, "his encounter with and study of Yeti," male/female roles (he is against eating ice cream with girls), and other stuff.

Beyond the Mountain - Steve House, 2012. About his life climbing mountains, including climbing a new route on Nanga Parbat.

The Last of His Kind: The Life and Adventures of Bradford Washburn, America's Boldest Mountaineer - David Roberts, 2009. Photographer and adventurer who has nine first ascents in North America, as well as a cartographer who charted Denali, the Grand Canyon, Everest, and others.

Conquistadors of the Useless - Lionel Terray, 2008. Autobiography. Terray was considered a national hero when he started climbing mountains following WW2. One of National Geographic's 100 Greatest Adventure Books of All Time.

The Beckoning Silence - Joe Simpson, 2003. Simpson, a subject of Touching the Void, goes on the last climb of his life, the north face of Eiger.

Annapurna: The First Conquest of an 8,000-meter Peak - Maurice Herzog, 2010. One of Sports Illustrated's Top 100 Sports Books of All Time.

The Will to Climb: Obsession and Commitment and the Quest to Climb Annapurna--the World's Deadliest Peak - Ed Viesturs, 2012. His three attempts to climb the mountain, while covering the history of others who have tried.

Fiva: An Adventure That Went Wrong - Gordon Stainforth, 2013. In 1969, teenage Stainforth and his idiot twin brother decide to climb the highest rock face in Europe, with no experience or gear. It didn't go well.

Forever on the Mountain: The Truth Behind One of Mountaineering's Most Controversial and Mysterious Disasters - James M. Tabor, 2008. On a climb of Mt McKinley in 1967, seven members of 12 man team became stranded and died. Tabor "uncovers" controversies and cover-ups.

Denali's Howl: The Deadliest Climbing Disaster on America's Wildest Peak - Andy Hall, 2014. Another on the 1967 climb of Mt McKinley, this one by the son of the then-park superintendent. This one focuses on the actual story, along with the story of the people trying to rescue the stranded climbers, and what could have been done differently.

Surviving Denali: A Study of Accidents on Mount McKinley 1903-1990 - Jonathan Waterman, 1991. Pretty straight forward.

The Naked Mountaineer: Misadventures of an Alpine Traveler - Steve Sieberson, 2014. A lighthearted look at climbing smaller mountains (Matterhorn, places in Borneo, etc.) and the people he meets and adventures he has.

Dead Mountain: The Untold True Story of the Dyatlov Pass Incident - Donnie Eichar, 2014. Includes photos, the climbers' journals, government files, etc., along with the author retracing their steps. I'm including this one on the subject because it came out late last year so hopefully actually covers the truth instead of still trying to push it as a mystery/aliens.

Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why - Laurence Gonzales, 2004. Self explanatory, with a focus on mountains.

CAVES & DIVING & ETC

Blind Descent: The Quest to Discover the Deepest Cave on Earth - James M. Tabor, 2011. Using journals, interviews, etc. Tabor covers two explorers as they both try to reach the deepest point on earth in 2004 - Bill Stone in the Cheve Cave of Mexico, and Alexander Klimchouk in a supercave in Georgia (the country). Both spent months underground and one cited review mentions "deadly falls, killer microbes, sudden burial, asphyxiation, claustrophobia, anxiety, and hallucinations. . ."

Beyond the Deep: The Deadly Descent into the World's Most Treacherous Cave - William Stone, Barbara am Ende, 2002. In 1994, 45 people go into the Huautla Cave in Mexico, led by the author. People die, floods force people back, and the two authors pushed on for another two weeks and set the record for deepest cave dive.

Diving into Darkness: A True Story of Death and Survival - Phillip Finch, 2008. Two of the world's top divers traveled to Bushman's Hole in the Kalahari Desert, one dies and one barely survives.

Fatal Depth: Deep Sea Diving, China Fever, And The Wreck Of The Andrea Doria - Joe Haberstroh, 2004. Follows divers trying to reach the Andrea Doria in 1998-1999, when three people died. Goes into the history of the ship along with the divers' lives and what pushes them to dive just to bring back a teacup.

Alone on the Ice: The Greatest Survival Story in the History of Exploration - David Roberts, 2014. Douglas Mawson's crazy expedition to Antarctica in 1913.

The Last Season - Eric Blehm, 2007. Backcountry ranger Randy Morgenson mysteriously vanishes in the Sierra Nevada mountains.

I have six mountaineering books that I really enjoy and would happily recommend:

Annapurna by Maurice Herzog is an inspiring and gripping book about one of the most amazing mountaineering feats of all time - the first ascent of Annapurna on its first attempt, when the team started the expedition without even knowing exactly where Annapurna was. An unbelievable story of hardship and hope. The books by some of the other climbers on the team, including Terray's Conquistadors, shows that not everyone was as inspired by the mountain as Herzog was, but it's really a great book that launched thousands of mountaineering careers.

Minus 148 Degrees by Art Davidson isn't on your list, but it's the story of the first winter ascent of Denali. As the title suggests, the story is about surviving on the mountain for days when the temperature with wind chill got down to minus 148 degrees. Really as much about survival as mountaineering, but some seriously hairy survival.

Ed Viesturs has (at least) four great books. They're pretty easy reading, but that's part of the fun. No Easy Way To The Summit tells his story of reaching all 14 8,000 meter peaks without supplemental oxygen, and he tells many good stories about his and others' experiences on the mountains. He has three other books about individual mountains that are also excellent - you mention them, The Mountain: My Time on Everest , K2: Life and Death on the World's Most Dangerous Mountain, and The Will to Climb: Obsession and Commitment and the Quest to Climb Annapurna--the World's Deadliest Peak.

All three are great - he talks about his climbs and about the history of the mountains, and the historical stories mean a lot more coming from someone who's been there and done that. He'll talk about some avalanche that wiped out a team on K2 in 19XX, and then he'll talk about when he was on the mountain and he was on that same ridge and what he saw there, and how that related to what happened to the other party. And when he makes any kind of editorial statement and says something was a good idea, or bad idea, or really ballsy, or whatever, it's not some monday morning quarterback - it's a guy as qualified as anyone on earth writing about it. They're all fun and easy reads and I really enjoyed them.

gohuskies fucked around with this message at 06:55 on Mar 24, 2015

# ? Mar 24, 2015 04:50

Bobsledboy: Jan 10, 2007; burning airlines give you so much more

Butt Wizard posted:

There aren't any really huge mountains in NZ (at least in the North Island) with the exception of Taranaki and Ruapehu. Ruapehu seems to be rated as an 'experienced alpine climb' so I might take some time off over summer and check out some of the lower reaches of the climb and just see what it's like a couple of hundred metres above the car park, how quickly weather changes, etc.

Given that Ruapehu is also one of our most active volcanoes, I have no desire to go anywhere near the top.

In the 50s/60s the crater lake at the top of Ruapehu was a popular swimming destination until volcanic activity made it too hot and acidic. http://www.teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/6876/swimming-in-crater-lake

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# ? Mar 24, 2015 06:43

krampster2: Jun 26, 2014

Ehud posted:

Hey if you like mountains there is a cool documentary about climbing K2. It's on Netflix instant.

I watched it yesterday.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TB4rTolvnFY

When I turned it on my wife was like, "Why do you like mountains so much?" lol

i watched that same documentary on that day as well, coincidence? would reccomend, it's good

# ? Mar 24, 2015 07:27

Potrzebie: Apr 6, 2010; I may not know what I'm talking about, but I sure love cops! ^^ Boy, but that boot is just yummy!; Lipstick Apathy

It seems 142 Europeans tried to be the first to climb a mountain using only an Airbus 320 just now. They did not succeed.

# ? Mar 24, 2015 12:03

Zo: Feb 22, 2005; LIKE A FOX

Potrzebie posted:

It seems 142 Europeans tried to be the first to climb a mountain using only an Airbus 320 just now. They did not succeed.

so that's why they found so many dvd copies of men in black 3 among the wreckage!

# ? Mar 24, 2015 12:15

Cojawfee: May 31, 2006; I think the US is dumb for not using Celsius

Wait so we ALL tried to be the first people to climb a mountain in a plane with a copy of Men In Black III? Good thing I brought this other DVD. I'm the first one to do it with a copy of Men In Black Men.

# ? Mar 24, 2015 12:31

krampster2: Jun 26, 2014

thinking about climbing everest so i can put it on my resume

# ? Mar 24, 2015 12:33

Wasabi the J: Jan 23, 2008; MOM WAS RIGHT

So the "spooky/unnerving" thread was talking about plane crashes today, and I was watching a movie about Sir Ed climbing Everest, when I heard the news about this.

DOUBLE SPOOKY.

# ? Mar 24, 2015 13:02

Unknowable Hole: Feb 2, 2005; Pillbug

It's obvious that the logical conclusion to these years worth of threads is a goon expedition to Everest. First goons from each country to climb everest, we'll all have the Men in Black III logo on the back of our bright yellow snow suits and green boots. I'll be the first person to yell "I'm gay" from the top and then well all take turns pooping off the summit. We'll make sure we use all of our oxygen on the way up, and on the way down one of us will go crazy and start taking off all their clothes, and another will write a book lying about everything that happened. It can't go worse than Goon Camp.

# ? Mar 24, 2015 13:11

elwood: Mar 28, 2001; by Smythe

captainoblivious posted:

It can't go worse than Goon Camp.

but on the summit

# ? Mar 24, 2015 13:16

Wasabi the J: Jan 23, 2008; MOM WAS RIGHT

I was gonna say, where's the anal sex come in?

# ? Mar 24, 2015 13:16

Unknowable Hole: Feb 2, 2005; Pillbug

Wasabi the J posted:

I was gonna say, where's the anal sex come in?

Where doesn't it come in?

# ? Mar 24, 2015 13:18

Paramemetic: Sep 29, 2003; Area 51. You heard of it, right?; Fallen Rib

Wasabi the J posted:

I was gonna say, where's the anal sex come in?

In the butt obvs

# ? Mar 24, 2015 13:28

Rondette: Nov 4, 2009; Your friendly neighbourhood Postie.; Grimey Drawer

Cojawfee posted:

Wait so we ALL tried to be the first people to climb a mountain in a plane with a copy of Men In Black III? Good thing I brought this other DVD. I'm the first one to do it with a copy of Men In Black Men.

Is now the time to post this, I ca't remember if this guy is a goon or not

# ? Mar 24, 2015 13:36

Unknowable Hole: Feb 2, 2005; Pillbug

Rondette posted:

Is now the time to post this, I ca't remember if this guy is a goon or not

He is, he posted it in the last thread it was great.
I'm watching K2:Siren of the Himalayas right now, can't recommend it enough, the documentary on the 2009 expedition is good, but the photographs from the 1909 expedition are incredibly detailed in HD. Worth it for those alone.

# ? Mar 24, 2015 13:43

Wasabi the J: Jan 23, 2008; MOM WAS RIGHT

captainoblivious posted:

He is, he posted it in the last thread it was great.
I'm watching K2:Siren of the Himalayas right now, can't recommend it enough, the documentary on the 2009 expedition is good, but the photographs from the 1909 expedition are incredibly detailed in HD. Worth it for those alone.

Beyond the Edge is also on netflix and is pretty good IMO. I didn't know that Edmund Hillary was a fuckin' beekeeper.

# ? Mar 24, 2015 13:51

you were warned: Jul 12, 2006; (the S is for skeleton)

Potrzebie posted:

It seems 142 Europeans tried to be the first to climb a mountain using only an Airbus 320 just now. They did not succeed.

"There is no need for any rescue operations, everyone is dead," said a police officer in the town of Le Vernet, near the crash site, according to the AFP news agency.

:stare:

# ? Mar 24, 2015 17:59

Happy Hedonist: Jan 18, 2009

We'll see who's laughing at my guess of 162 deaths on Everest this year when an Airbus crashes into it.

# ? Mar 24, 2015 19:14

JiimyPopAli: Oct 5, 2009

Happy Hedonist posted:

We'll see who's laughing at my guess of 162 deaths on Everest this year when an Airbus crashes into it.

I wonder if that would cause more or less people to try and climb Everest. Probably more. Green Boots could use the company, too.

# ? Mar 24, 2015 19:21

Ehud: Sep 19, 2003; football.

krampster2 posted:

i watched that same documentary on that day as well, coincidence? would reccomend, it's good

maybe you are my wife

# ? Mar 25, 2015 00:08

Facebook Aunt: Oct 4, 2008; wiggle wiggle

Ehud posted:

maybe you are my wife

Sever.

# ? Mar 25, 2015 00:22

Strongylocentrotus: Jan 24, 2007; Nab him, jab him, tab him, grab him - stop that pigeon NOW!

Wasabi the J posted:

I was gonna say, where's the anal sex come in?

Goon Base Camp.

# ? Mar 25, 2015 04:44

Fojar38: Sep 2, 2011; Sorry I meant to say I hope that the police use maximum force and kill or maim a bunch of innocent people, thus paving a way for a proletarian uprising and socialist utopia

also here's a stupid take
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Strongylocentrotus posted:

Goon Base Camp.

aka a san francisco arbys, the closest most goons will venture to the himalayas

# ? Mar 25, 2015 04:59

Dely Apple: Apr 22, 2006; Sing me Spanish Techno

I roomed with a Nepali guy when I first started in SF. He was not a sherpa. He did turn me on to a lot of family curries though. And basmati rice :yum:

# ? Mar 25, 2015 10:08

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PostNouveau: Sep 3, 2011; VY till I die; Grimey Drawer

krampster2 posted:

thinking about climbing everest so i can put it on my resume

Just lie about it. Much safer.

# ? Mar 25, 2015 10:37

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