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Rondette posted:People who took on those higher numbers in the death pool could be on to something. A chopper crashing into a bunch of Sherpas maybe? A chopper crashing in one of the poop-piles, literally causing poo poo to hit the fan on Everest.
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Butt Wizard posted:Will more helicopters mean more people dropping dead because they haven't acclimatized properly? The choppers would be carrying gear, not climbers. Unless somebody decides to get really stupid.
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Jonad posted:The choppers would be carrying gear, not climbers. Unless somebody decides to get really stupid. Yea, the article said stuff like that happens extremely rarely. I wonder if there's any elevated risk from skipping straight to Base Camp in one though.
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Butt Wizard posted:Yea, the article said stuff like that happens extremely rarely. I wonder if there's any elevated risk from skipping straight to Base Camp in one though. Some dumbass high school drove a busload of kids to base camp and one of the dumbass kids died so yeah, there is.
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Hey, if anyone has a spare $79k it might not be too late if you can squeeze a few days hiking training in then fly to Tibet! http://www.alpenglowexpeditions.com/expeditions/everest-north-side-rapid-ascent
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Zo posted:Some dumbass high school drove a busload of kids to base camp and one of the dumbass kids died so yeah, there is. Didn't do enough pre-expedition photoshopping to prepare, obviously.
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Rondette posted:Hey, if anyone has a spare $79k it might not be too late if you can squeeze a few days hiking training in then fly to Tibet! Their pitch basically seems to be about using double the oxygen everyone else does. Which is great I guess until something goes wrong with your oxygen supply.
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Rondette posted:Hey, if anyone has a spare $79k it might not be too late if you can squeeze a few days hiking training in then fly to Tibet! quote:We have seen that over 30% of climbers on other teams head home long before attempting their summit push on Mt. Everest. This is generally for 3 reasons, all tied to the amount of time teams take “acclimatizing” on the mountain: the multiple trips up and down the mountain during acclimatization cause the climber to reassess the risk and go home, the climber’s weight loss, chronic sickness and progressive weakening at altitude cause them to call off the trip, or a family or work issue at home takes priority.  Normally people begin to realize how stupid wasting your life to climb a giant frozen rock is, so we charge more and have you do it in a riskier, shorter amount of time to keep you from deciding not to become a statistic!
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Minrad posted:
quote:Adrian found that many guide services in the industry were more focused on tagging summits than teaching mountaineering skills.
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Rondette posted:Hey, if anyone has a spare $79k it might not be too late if you can squeeze a few days hiking training in then fly to Tibet! Experience the unique culture, environment, and people of Tibet. Like, the colorful prayer flags that will fly over your memorial cairn and the many Sherpas who will come to know you as "where you turn left".
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Marley Wants More posted:Experience the unique culture, environment, and people of Tibet. We'll use a rusty nail and a random metal kitchen pan to create a memorial plaque. 
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i see no better-fitting memorial to embody the life of an everest climber than a haphazardly stacked pile of trash
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death .cab for qt posted:i see no better-fitting memorial to embody the life of an everest climber than a haphazardly stacked pile of trash I think the pot metal memorial is on K2, though of course there could me more than one throughout the Himalayas
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Rondette posted:People who took on those higher numbers in the death pool could be on to something. A chopper crashing into a bunch of Sherpas maybe? I'll take two helicopters in the crash pool, please.
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Meatwave posted:We'll use a rusty nail and a random metal kitchen pan to create a memorial plaque.
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Someone recommended a book about Shackleton's expedition - can anyone remember what it was called? Alternatively any good books about the history of Antarctic exploration?
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You want Endurance by Lansing. It's fantastic. "Today, Friday, April 17, a collapse of a four ladder traverse across a huge crevasse in the middle of the Icefall, caused 80 Sherpas to turn back. There were no injuries." http://www.alanarnette.com/blog/201...ef=pub-standard Happy Hedonist fucked around with this message at 17:07 on Apr 18, 2015 |
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Happy Hedonist posted:
Pic of the crevasse crossing before the ladders collapsed, you have to open it full size to see it in the middle there: 
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That will make life difficult for the Gurkhas and their tiny feet: http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-32366860
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Surprised I haven't seen a ladder ad with the header "The same ladders they trust on Everest."
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kim jong-illin posted:Someone recommended a book about Shackleton's expedition - can anyone remember what it was called? Alternatively any good books about the history of Antarctic exploration? 
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Thanks to this thread I'm going to climb a mountain this summer and by "climbing" I mean I'm hiking up to roughly 3000m and after a healthy schnitzel + weissbier at the top I'm going down by cable car.
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Whenever I see someone crossing one of those narrow ladders, it looks clumsy as hell and it makes my stomach do flip flops. I always wonder why they don't use two ladders. Still clumsy, but at least it would be twice as wide. I guess it's because getting even one ladder up there is hard enough?
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elwood posted:Thanks to this thread I'm going to climb a mountain this summer and by "climbing" I mean I'm hiking up to roughly 3000m and after a healthy schnitzel + weissbier at the top I'm going down by cable car. Your Sherpa will wear lederhosen and place beer steins on the route ahead of you.
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elwood posted:Thanks to this thread I'm going to climb a mountain this summer and by "climbing" I mean I'm hiking up to roughly 3000m and after a healthy schnitzel + weissbier at the top I'm going down by cable car. I've started your training for you: 
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Bobby Digital posted:I've started your training for you:  Congratulations on climbing Everest.
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Marley Wants More posted:Whenever I see someone crossing one of those narrow ladders, it looks clumsy as hell and it makes my stomach do flip flops. Someone mentioned a similar story but when I saw the Everest documentary at the Boston Science Museum IMAX in 98 people flipped the gently caress out during the ladder traverse scene when the camera was looking down through the ladder as the guy walked across.
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Hunterhr posted:Someone mentioned a similar story but when I saw the Everest documentary at the Boston Science Museum IMAX in 98 people flipped the gently caress out during the ladder traverse scene when the camera was looking down through the ladder as the guy walked across. I guess to those guys it's nothing. But drat. Just a LITTLE wider, please?? Holy poo poo.
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Ague Proof posted:
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Happy Hedonist posted:You want Endurance by Lansing. It's fantastic.
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Marley Wants More posted:Whenever I see someone crossing one of those narrow ladders, it looks clumsy as hell and it makes my stomach do flip flops. I always wonder why they don't use two ladders. Still clumsy, but at least it would be twice as wide. I guess it's because getting even one ladder up there is hard enough? also there are safety lines you clip into, so even if you fall you won't die
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Broken Machine posted:also there are safety lines you clip into, so even if you fall you won't die Maybe.
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kim jong-illin posted:Someone recommended a book about Shackleton's expedition - can anyone remember what it was called? Alternatively any good books about the history of Antarctic exploration? Pagophiles convene! Arctic fiction/non-fiction discussion is the thread to check, in the book barn. It's not highly trafficked but it has a really good reading list. Personally, I think if you're going to read about shackleton's expedition, you should start with his own account: "South: The Story of Shackleton's 1914-1917 Expedition" by Sir Earnest Henry Shackleton is public domain, so you can download a digital copy for free for your favorite e-reader, or get a print copy for very cheap, or just read it on your PC from project gutenberg, here. e. For example Shackleton himself posted:I have marvelled often at the thin line that divides success from failure and the sudden turn that leads from apparently certain disaster to comparative safety. Shackleton himself posted:Pain and ache, boat journeys, marches, hunger and fatigue seemed to belong to the limbo of forgotten things, and there remained only the perfect contentment that comes of work accomplished. Shackleton himself posted:We had pierced the veneer of outside things. We had "suffered, starved, and triumphed, grovelled down yet grasped at glory, grown bigger in the bigness of the whole." We had seen God in His splendours, heard the text that Nature renders. We had reached the naked soul of man. This is a guy who knew how to turn a phrase. Shackleton himself posted:We were a tiny speck in the vast vista of the sea--the ocean that is open to all and merciful to none, that threatens even when it seems to yeild, and that is pitiless always to weakness. You could say exactly the same of Everest. Leperflesh fucked around with this message at 04:07 on Apr 19, 2015 |
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Our favorite Canadian should have gone a bit further east. The Supreme Leader "climbed" his country's highest peak recently, the 2,700m Paektu/Changbai Mountain. Like everything he "does" it probably didn't happen, and the photos of him at the peak show him wearing a thin wool overcoat and basic leather shoes. According to the Official Story the top of the mountain is the birthplace of his father. Paektu is located on the border between China and North Korea and there is a lot of disagreement, of course, on whether it should be 50/50 or 100/0 going either way. I didn't know it's an active volcano and likely to erupt within a decade or two, given its history. 
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so is his hair being blown back by the mountain winds or the helicopter rotors?
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Ah, the most wonderful time of year!
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SteveVizsla posted:Our favorite Canadian should have gone a bit further east. The Supreme Leader "climbed" his country's highest peak recently, the 2,700m Paektu/Changbai Mountain. Like everything he "does" it probably didn't happen, and the photos of him at the peak show him wearing a thin wool overcoat and basic leather shoes. According to the Official Story the top of the mountain is the birthplace of his father. Hey now, it's not Dear Leader's fault for having a built-in helicopter 
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I CANNOT EJACULATE WITHOUT SEEING NATIVE AMERICANS BRUTALISED!