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I think within 10 years we will see the first summit of Everest by a robot. Then people could rent out a robot over the internet and try to climb Everest.
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Sas posted:I think within 10 years we will see the first summit of Everest by a robot. This reminds me of how irritated I get with the "Everest Climb" on a loving treadmill thing my gym does. No, actually "climbing" on a treadmill at sea level isn't even close to the same thing as climbing an 8,000er.
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Apr 10, 2015 15:40
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Sas posted:I think within 10 years we will see the first summit of Everest by a robot.
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Apr 10, 2015 15:41
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actually that sounds like it would be more fun. Sas fucked around with this message at 15:53 on Apr 10, 2015 |
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Apr 10, 2015 15:51
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Not only do you have to deal with frostbite, no oxygen and exhaustion, now you have to avoid getting shoved off the mountain by a robot controlled by a bored teenager.
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Apr 10, 2015 16:01
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K2 winter accent via robot? Does that still count? How long before Everest and K2 are littered with broken down/damaged robots, hydraulic fluid and oil slicks everywhere? What have you done to the sacred mountains?!
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Apr 10, 2015 16:05
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Not sure if unthinking climbing machines getting killed by the mountain with gambling, or remote controlled drone pusherbots to shove around the (snow)blind people would more fun.
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Apr 10, 2015 16:09
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ZombieLenin posted:This reminds me of how irritated I get with the "Everest Climb" on a loving treadmill thing my gym does. Sounds like we figured out how the Canadian lady was training.
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Apr 10, 2015 18:04
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Ursine Asylum posted:Sounds like we figured out how the Canadian lady was training. You might be on to something as they have a photo of everyone who "completes" the climb on a wall with a big Everest relief.
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Apr 10, 2015 18:16
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Paramemetic posted:Not sure if unthinking climbing machines getting killed by the mountain with gambling, or remote controlled drone pusherbots to shove around the (snow)blind people would more fun. There's an "Everest" ultra marathon here consisting of 24 hours of running up the stairs of 42 floors of the local Marriott (taking the elevator down). The death zone is simulated by cutting off the air conditioning and stinking up the stairwell with sweat of a hundred men.
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Apr 10, 2015 18:18
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Cojawfee posted:Not only do you have to deal with frostbite, no oxygen and exhaustion, now you have to avoid getting shoved off the mountain by a robot controlled by a bored teenager. A pusher robot... on a mountain!?
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Apr 10, 2015 18:24
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SLICK GOKU BABY posted:A pusher robot... on a mountain!?
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Apr 10, 2015 18:29
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Pierogi posted:There's an "Everest" ultra marathon here consisting of 24 hours of running up the stairs of 42 floors of the local Marriott (taking the elevator down). The death zone is simulated by cutting off the air conditioning and stinking up the stairwell with sweat of a hundred men. This sounds insanely stupid. At least compete in the Barkley 100 fun run if you want to simulate the elevation gain and success rate of an Everest summit. https://vimeo.com/97270099
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Apr 10, 2015 18:36
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Hermsgervørden posted:The irony deepens when you consider that land is less likely to ever be used for anything than literally both the north and south poles. Which is quite a achievement since there is no land at the north pole.
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Apr 10, 2015 18:38
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Watched K2: Siren and The Summit. I am glad I watched Siren first as it does a better job of describing the mountain.
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Apr 10, 2015 20:05
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That's true. Siren should be watched first to learn about K2. It mentions the previous year's disaster. Then move on to The Summit to watch everyone die on the mountain.
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Apr 10, 2015 20:08
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Cojawfee posted:That's true. Siren should be watched first to learn about K2. It mentions the previous year's disaster. Then move on to The Summit to watch everyone die on the mountain. I didn't see Siren, but when people mentioned things like the Seracs and bottleneck, even pictures didn't seem to do them justice. The Summit really had some good shots of what it looks like and gives a real feel for the dangers.
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Apr 10, 2015 20:46
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SLICK GOKU BABY posted:A pusher robot... on a mountain!? They're here to protect you from the terrible secret of Everest.
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Apr 10, 2015 20:55
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Gripen5 posted:I didn't see Siren, but when people mentioned things like the Seracs and bottleneck, even pictures didn't seem to do them justice. The Summit really had some good shots of what it looks like and gives a real feel for the dangers. Siren has some great HD shots of seracs and the other features on K2 and does probably a better job of giving you an idea of how steep that mother fucker is.
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Apr 11, 2015 00:16
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Update from Everest base camp:quote:High Number of Everest Climbers Are Ill
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Apr 11, 2015 00:40
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Hopper posted:Could be interesting. Has anybody ever survived a heart attack/stroke in base camp? Yes. Broken Machine posted:Has anyone mentioned The Man Who Skied Down Everest? In the mid 70s, an insane world-class skier from Japan decided it'd be fun to ski down Lhotse face. He did, and lived to tell about it; it's an interesting film. There was an avalanche that killed a bunch of members of his crew during the ascent to the face, and there's this point where the guy basically says "you know, what the gently caress am I doing, all these people have died just so I can ski down a part of Everest, what a dumb thing to die for" and then he keeps climbing. I found Miura to be a hateful arsehole for exactly that reason. The scene where him and his mates are trying to talk the Sherpas into staying on the mountain after their friends died sickened me - especially after the events of last year. I would have cheerfully choked the poo poo out of him after that bullshit. And after all that he skii'd for, what, five seconds? And then slid down for like a minute, minute and a half. It wasn't even that interesting a stack. Shane McConkeys tomahawk where he broke his hip and his spine was way more metal and it was on some skii slope in the USA, IIRC. I would dispute his age record as well, he got carried back down most of the way. He's been up once and assisted down twice. DPM fucked around with this message at 00:49 on Apr 11, 2015 |
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Apr 11, 2015 00:47
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it's pretty remarkable how the tallest mountains in the world are juuuusssstttt short enough to be summited by a human without oxygen. there's just something incredibly coincidental about that.
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Apr 11, 2015 00:49
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wtf this guy in siren is smoking cigarettes
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Apr 11, 2015 00:50
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Thse aren't Everest related but I thought some of you might get a kick out of them. Here's a Nat Geo presentation about a group that went to the middle of Antarctica and climbed a random giant rock face. The last half has some great footage, looks like a difficult rear end climb. I like this a lot. It's a 20 minute long video of two guys climbing the Slovak Direct route on Denali. I know nothing about the route or the mountain for that matter, but the video is great. It looks like a gorgeous climb and the two dudes look like they are just having the times of their lives. I could do without the lovely music, butt gently caress it.
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Apr 11, 2015 00:51
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theflyingexecutive posted:wtf this guy in siren is smoking cigarettes Hate that dude so much. Edit: Whoops was thinking of chain smoking dude from The Summit
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Apr 11, 2015 00:53
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Happy Hedonist posted:
Denali is awesome! I was lucky enough to land on a glacier and fly around the summit a few times.
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Apr 11, 2015 01:30
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gohuskies posted:Update from Everest base camp: I'm quietly confident my death pool call was a good one.
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Apr 11, 2015 01:38
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Hunterhr posted:Would like to watch a hand to hand melee at 7500 meters.
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Apr 11, 2015 02:02
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Rondette posted:
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Internet Kraken posted:They're here to protect you from the terrible secret of Everest. Why do we need robots for that? http://www.qwantz.com/index.php?comic=932
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Apr 11, 2015 05:37
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According to Graham Hoyland who wrote the book linked a page or so ago, Malory had at least one "affair" with a man when he was at Cambridge--before he met his wife. That, and reading what some of his male admirers wrote about Malory, there is some truth to that.
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Apr 11, 2015 19:09
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ZombieLenin posted:According to Graham Hoyland who wrote the book linked a page or so ago, Malory had at least one "affair" with a man when he was at Cambridge--before he met his wife. dont assume the rear end to mouth smiley is ironic
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Apr 11, 2015 20:06
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ZombieLenin posted:Well I agree and don't. On the one hand they are the people who have lived in that area of Nepal forever, it's their home. If anyone owns the mountain it is the Sherpas; having said that, I believe something like Everest belongs to the collective heritage of humanity and really ought to belong to everyone on the loving planet There is someone/thing that owns the mountain, the governments of Nepal and China. "The collective heritage of humanity" can gently caress off, this isn't Olympus or Ararat, people didn't even know anything about it until the second half of the 1800s.
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Apr 12, 2015 19:30
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Cliff Racer posted:There is someone/thing that owns the mountain, the governments of Nepal and China. "The collective heritage of humanity" can gently caress off, this isn't Olympus or Ararat, people didn't even know anything about it until the second half of the 1800s. Yeah, but that's nationalistic bullshit I don't believe in at all, and it can gently caress off. This isn't the loving 19th century. Lots of people from all over the world know about, venerate, and leave their bodies on that mountain. And yes, I understand that in the current iteration of the world, the people who live closest to the mountain are presently exploited. This doesn't change the fact that the mountain in some sense does, and should in reality own these places in common. They belong to the collective heritage of human beings.
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Apr 12, 2015 19:56
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nationalism shouldn't apply when it's something i want!!!! 
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Apr 12, 2015 20:00
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Nationalism shouldn't really apply ever. Mount Everest is already included in a UNESCO World Heritage Site if that matters.
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Apr 12, 2015 20:31
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theflyingexecutive posted:nationalism shouldn't apply when it's something i want!!!! Nationalism shouldn't apply ever, under any circumstances. Edit ^^^ Beaten.
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Apr 12, 2015 21:02
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Cliff Racer posted:There is someone/thing that owns the mountain I think death just leases honestly. It's kind of a seasonal place.
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Apr 12, 2015 21:44
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CommunistPancake posted:Nationalism shouldn't really apply ever. Mount Everest is already included in a UNESCO World Heritage Site if that matters. So is Stonehenge, and they stopped the hippies carving there initials into the stones anyway
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Cliff Racer posted:"The collective heritage of humanity" can gently caress off, this isn't Olympus or Ararat, white people didn't even know anything about it until the second half of the 1800s. Ftfy
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