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I really don't think anyone can criticize the Sherpas for bailing on the mountain when a lot of them have no idea if their immediate family is even still alive. There's gonna be people coming to help the guys stuck on Everest at some point. Some random family in a poor remote village getting help is entirely up to luck.
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who cares about some people on a mountain they signed the waivers and knew what they were getting themselves into
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Arsenic Lupin posted:I saw a quote elsewhere from a climber complaining about the "superstitiousness" of the Sherpas. It doesn't seem unreasonable to me for them to say "Wow, one major avalanche, aftershocks continue, I'll go check on my family, thanks." lmfao i'm not superstitious at all and I'd still never touch that loving mountain again after it tried to kill everyone on it two years in a row
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EXTREME INSERTION posted:I want to be frozen like a human Popsicle and then licked by people with brain injuries According to Tao Jiucheng in the Chuogenglu "Record after retiring from plowing", it says in Arabia there are men 70 to 80 years old who are willing to give their bodies to save others. The subject does not eat food, he only bathes and partakes of honey. After a month he only excretes honey (the urine and feces are entirely honey) and death follows. His fellow men place him in a stone coffin full of honey in which he macerates. The date is put upon the coffin giving the year and month. After a hundred years the seals are removed. A confection is formed which is used for the treatment of broken and wounded limbs. A small amount taken internally will immediately cure the complaint. It is scarce in Arabia where it is called mellified man.
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frajaq posted:I just want to laugh at dead people, is this a crime? Careful or we'll end up with drilldo squirt in here again. The've also been working on helicopter assisted rescues today, but apparently the weather is complicating things. They're also taking the badly injured people to Pheriche rather than Kathmandu.
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frank.club posted:That's this entire thread lmao Are you going to tell us if you actually paid money for that avatar yet?
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lol turns out my sherpa family is ok, back up the mountain for the gringos
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AnxietyMan1488 posted:I fuckeing hope that all of the mountain fags die. You mean I sit at my computer because I have a job, a mortgage, and kids--which is literally accomplishing nothing--so I don't have $50k and three months to throw at someone else to help me ZombieLenin fucked around with this message at 19:47 on Apr 26, 2015 |
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I'm better than them because I sit at my computer any day and never attempt to accomplish anything.
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Don't think this video has been posted yet: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JC_wIWUC2U
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Syncopated posted:How do you cross a wide crevasse without ladders? Walk to where it's thinner, or climb down into it to where you can get across and then up again or what? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4uv27nSaH4
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keevo posted:Don't think this video has been posted yet: Its terrifying how fast it was apon them.
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keevo posted:Don't think this video has been posted yet: Goddamn 
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keevo posted:Don't think this video has been posted yet:  Reminds me of the tsunami stories.
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keevo posted:Don't think this video has been posted yet: I'm surprised that didn't bury those guys
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keevo posted:Don't think this video has been posted yet: wow. ethanol posted:I'm surprised that didn't bury those guys Yeah it seemed kinda dense until it hit.
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keevo posted:Don't think this video has been posted yet: Wow. I was all "hmm, that doesn't look too b ... OH HOLY gently caress!"
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Hey, they wanted an adventure. e: Is Ed Viesturs on the mountain with Breashears? He's mentioned several times that Breashears is probably the only guy that could get him to climb the stupid thing again. Happy Hedonist fucked around with this message at 20:01 on Apr 26, 2015 |
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keevo posted:Don't think this video has been posted yet: Holy poo poo. I guess at least that was mostly airborne, not a solid flow. Still, goddamn.
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lol what the gently caress do you even do
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that video is nuts I think this earthquake is going to remind all the unexperienced dolts that climb everest that it's not a joke
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a bay posted:Probably about the same ratio as the number of GBS goons who see the mountain as a secular instrument of divine Marxist retribution vs those who see it as the Xbox to K2's PC. This was a pretty good post.
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Leperflesh posted:If attempting to skateboard in a big skateboard tourney or something carried with it an approximately 1/20 chance of being killed, and also cost $50,000, and also most of the people competing had literally never stood on a skateboard before, but were "competing" by having impoverished foreigners hold them on their skateboards and push them up the ramps and off the ledges and stuff, and carry all their equipment, and those same foreigners spent a couple months before the tournament setting up all the equipment and some of them sometimes died setting up that equipment, and then all the skateboarders covered the skateboard park in their own garbage and poo poo constantly because attempting to carry their own trash back down the skateboard ramp would probably kill them This is a good post. ^^^wtf? Spiderjelly fucked around with this message at 20:14 on Apr 26, 2015 |
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Goddess, Mother of the World, just like a Planet Rock store manager has decided it's time to switch up the climbing routes.
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ZombieLenin posted:You mean I sit at my computer because I have a job, a mortgage, and kids--which is literally accomplishing nothing--so I don't have $50k and three months to throw at someone else to help me Lol
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keevo posted:Don't think this video has been posted yet: That's some poo poo right there.
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Happy Hedonist posted:Hey, they wanted an adventure. The guide company he works for doesn't say he's there this year but Viesters has been quiet on his twitter account  https://www.rmiguides.com/blog/ quote:Dave Hahn calling from Camp One on Mount Everest 20,000’. That was a day of waiting and watching for us. The weather improved a little bit, this morning it was sunny and clear. And couple of helicopter and courageous helicopter pilots made use of that time flying out from sick and hurt people from Camp Two to Camp One. But the big work that they did was trip after trip flying casualties out from Base Camp. We followed some of that on the radio. Our efforts to get our selves out of here, two of our Sherpa team Wingen and Sunam, made a valiant effort coming up from the bottom of the Ice Fall, to see how far they could get before the damage of the earth quake stopped them. They got about a third of the way. Additionally, we were part of supporting a team, coming down from the top trying to do the same thing. They probably got about a third of the way down, luckily both teams, got out safely. There was a massive aftershock this afternoon at about 1 o’clock local time. But it seemed almost as powerful as yesterdays quake. And we are worried, as everybody is, about putting people in the Ice Fall again. That is probably not going to be our exit plan. And now we are looking to helicopter out in the next day or two to get down to Base Camp. And that probably will be what we do, but the timing is still up to mother nature. If it keeps on snowing as it did this afternoon, and making flying impossible. But perhaps we’ll keep you updated. We’ll let you know how it goes. We are safe. We are in a good spot. And we are not in panic mode. Thank you. It does sound like the actual avalanches didn't impact Camp One very much when it happened, the problem is that they are stuck there.
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Is it more expensive to fly a chopper near the summit, because there's less air, so you need more gas ?
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If all of the Sherpas are taking off, I hope the people still there actually have the mountaineering experience they need to fix ropes and ladders to get the people at camps 1 and 2 back down. Seems like a pretty bad side effect of depending so much on the Sherpas to set routes.
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keevo posted:Don't think this video has been posted yet: this video... is in tents
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I can't wait for one of the books written by a survivor of this to be a prize in the 2020 Everest Death Pool.
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FordPRefectLL posted:lol what the gently caress do you even do
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keevo posted:Don't think this video has been posted yet:
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Star War Sex Parrot posted:holy poo poo PISS
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monster on a stick posted:The guide company he works for doesn't say he's there this year but Viesters has been quiet on his twitter account I noticed that too. Hopefully he's just en route or something. I'm sure he be involved in the rescue effort if he is not already there. We are going to see a lot of rescuers putting their lives in serious loving danger if they can't get enough choppers up there, that is if there are still enough sherpas around.
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unpacked robinhood posted:Is it more expensive to fly a chopper near the summit, because there's less air, so you need more gas ? no its because helicopter pilots are paid $1 per minute per meter of altitude
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keevo posted:Don't think this video has been posted yet: Good lord I thought the guy was gonna be dead when he didn't get in his tent in time.
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