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29 deaths it is. Go big or go home. Hopefully none of the idiots turn around and the hillary step collapses on them
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I dunno, 2.7km seems like a really doable mountain for even an inexperienced climber..
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Apr 21, 2015 08:09
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Wasabi the J posted:I dunno, 2.7km seems like a really doable mountain for even an inexperienced climber.. 2,700m is about the elevation you'd start at for a lot of the 14ers in the Rockies so yeah, it's easily doable. It's more that he's standing on the peak in obvious winter conditions while wearing non-winter clothing. The fucker clearly landed on the peak with a helicopter, took a quick shot, and then got the gently caress out of there.
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Apr 21, 2015 08:45
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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? I imagine it's like anything else at that altitude; you do just enough and carry just enough to make it possible, because every bit of weight and effort is almost superhuman. One ladder gets the job done reliably, so taking on the effort and risk of a second trip to haul a second ladder just for the sake of peoples' nerves doesn't seem like something that would ever be considered.
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Apr 21, 2015 09:12
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im probably spelling it wrong but yall ever seen the matterhorn? it's far from the biggest mountain but i think it's easily the most beautiful. heard it's pretty dangerous to climb but im not a climber myself so idk.
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Apr 21, 2015 14:31
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Matterhorn huh? Looks like a knock off of a real mountain. 
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Apr 21, 2015 14:42
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zedprime posted:Matterhorn huh? good god... majestic.
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Apr 21, 2015 15:27
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 This was inevitable, so I figured we might as well get it out of the way.
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Apr 21, 2015 15:45
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That would imply she had at least some climbing experience though.
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Apr 21, 2015 16:09
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One of my favorite NK propaganda pieces:  I think it appeals to me as an almost comedic (in terms of its egotism/plagiarism) reworking of Wanderer above the Sea of Fog
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Apr 21, 2015 18:03
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Apr 21, 2015 18:14
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Teketeketeketeke posted:One of my favorite NK propaganda pieces: How can it be plagiarism? Kim Jung-Il painted Wanderer above the Sea of Fog.
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Apr 21, 2015 18:31
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Topher87 posted:29 deaths it is. Go big or go home. Hopefully none of the idiots turn around and the hillary step collapses on them enough GOP 2016 armchair quarterbacking already
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Apr 21, 2015 18:49
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zedprime posted:Matterhorn huh? The Matterhorn actually beats Everest in the death count, it has almost twice the number of fatalities (500 vs. 250). Though it sees a lot more ascents, so the relative death rate is probably lower than Everest.
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Apr 21, 2015 18:56
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it also looks like some poo poo outta lord of the rings i think it's that face on the left side of the pic that's the place where people struggle the most?
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Apr 21, 2015 19:04
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A Spider Covets posted:it also looks like some poo poo outta lord of the rings That entire mountain looks like it requires some serious skill and equipment to climb.
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Apr 21, 2015 19:23
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Keith Atherton posted:I own a ton of books about mountaineering You're welcome to start a thread in Book Barn on it. Leperflesh posted: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. Thanks for the bump! It's one of TBB's overlooked gems. Always keen to get recommendations and comment.  Yeah, I turn my back for a few weeks and come back and.... Yeah, let's say a guess of 41 wasn't my finest judgement but I'll stand by it. There's always next season... We need some sort of death counter for that awesome banner, Rondette.
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Apr 21, 2015 19:35
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Gripen5 posted:That entire mountain looks like it requires some serious skill and equipment to climb. The standard route is actually only slightly more difficult than Everest. Of course you don't need bottled oxygen for a 4478 meter peak and if you break down on the summit there's gonna be a helicopter ride down. Because of its popularity and fixed ropes the Matterhorn shares a lot of problems with Everest, like traffic jams or unprepared climbers getting lost. Here, have a GoPro movie of an ascent: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OvV4P7kFy_o
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Apr 21, 2015 19:36
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Gripen5 posted:That entire mountain looks like it requires some serious skill and equipment to climb. its weird just getting there. the town i stayed at is near its base: zermatt. they have really strict rules on how vehicles can operate in the town, like you cannot drive a traditional vehicle around the streets of the city. the only vehicles i saw around in the city proper were electric taxis. beautiful place though, and the food is really good. heres a wiki page on it if you're curious: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zermatt i spent most of my time around Sunnegga and Gornergrat. gipskrampf posted:The standard route is actually only slightly more difficult than Everest. Of course you don't need bottled oxygen for a 4478 meter peak and if you break down on the summit there's gonna be a helicopter ride down. Because of its popularity and fixed ropes the Matterhorn shares a lot of problems with Everest, like traffic jams or unprepared climbers getting lost. thanks, gonna watch this later, what a view!
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Apr 21, 2015 19:44
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she was so close...
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Apr 21, 2015 20:13
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Marley Wants More posted:
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Apr 21, 2015 20:41
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I CANNOT EJACULATE WITHOUT SEEING NATIVE AMERICANS BRUTALISED!
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Jonny 290 posted:enough GOP 2016 armchair quarterbacking already Marco Rubio's icy corpse marks a sharp right turn just before Super Tuesday
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Apr 21, 2015 21:22
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As a Torontonian, I found this awesome.
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Apr 21, 2015 21:24
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Apr 21, 2015 21:46
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Everyone should read the Abominable by Dan Simmons. http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17333261-the-abominable the stuff I learned about mountaineering in this thread really helped with the eye rolling during the reading. I will genuinely second Anapurna by herzog. Really chilling read.
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Apr 22, 2015 11:06
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Needs even more love than it is getting. Awesome.
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Apr 23, 2015 04:26
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 I vote that this become the official smilie of the thread.
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Apr 23, 2015 15:09
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Today's Sesame Street has Elmo climbing Mt. Biggest-Ever-rest with a Sheep Sherpa.
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Anya posted:Today's Sesame Street has Elmo climbing Mt. Biggest-Ever-rest with a Sheep Sherpa. Update: Elmo's dead.
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Apr 24, 2015 16:22
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Did that obnoxious teenage "adventurer" die?
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Apr 24, 2015 16:37
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Drunkboxer posted:Did that obnoxious teenage "adventurer" die? The place was closed. He died of starvation before anyone could get to him 
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Apr 24, 2015 17:02
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They'd better open up soon
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fuctifino posted:They'd better open up soon
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Apr 24, 2015 17:31
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fuctifino posted:They'd better open up soon
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fuctifino posted:They'd better open up soon Did they get David's body out of Green boots Cave?
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Damo posted:I think you are thinking of Sandy Hill (formerly Sandy Hill Pittman), the rich New Yorker from the 1996 Everest Disaster. She brought some crazy luxury poo poo those poor sherpas had to haul up. To her credit she had a deal with NBC to do a video diary and other broadcasts from her climb with the Mountain Madness expedition, so she likely was required to bring some unconventional gear with her. However, yeah I believe she did bring a coffee machine or something like that, among other luxury items to Everest in 1996. This is an old post but like Mt Kosciuszko is easy as poo poo, 0 accomplishment there. Dunno about the rest though I climbed it in February. It's not very steep and the peak itself is just a hill on a flat bit at the top of the range. It's even got h+ data at the top. If you are especially lazy, they have a chairlift most of the way up, and a restaurant with $20 burgers.
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Apr 25, 2015 00:29
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The "coffee machine" was a French press, it's not like she was schlepping a Keurig up there. It's not so much that this is a "look at this rich female pretend-climber buying her way up" thing as much as it is a "other climbers didn't really care for her and so they talked smack and it became a thing." It's about ethics in climbing journalism, basically. Also, Aleister Crowley had his HAPs carry a small library up as well as a chess set and so on when he attempted Kanchenjunga, dude was way gaucher than Sandy Hill. A Saucy Bratwurst posted:This is an old post but like Mt Kosciuszko is easy as poo poo, 0 accomplishment there. Dunno about the rest though Those are the Seven Summits, yo, it's not like people climb Kosciuszko for the challenge, they climb it because if you don't climb it you can't say you climbed the highest on every continent.
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Apr 25, 2015 00:51
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good god, that continent is flat
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Kosciuszko is our biggest mountain but it literally just looks like the windows xp background when you get close to it. The hard part was the start where it was constant shittily made stairs to the top of the range. You then walk along flat ground to the Thredbo ski resort. I'll find a picture to go with everyone elses crazy cave diving etc. Once you get to Thredbo, there's 2kms of raised metal ramp to the top. I climbed a harder mountain 2 years ago called the pyramid, you had to crawl up it cause you slide backwards to a 300m drop otherwise. Tbh my favourite part was taking a piss on top of the racist poo poo of a country I live in.
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