|
Mr. Funny Pants posted:I've been looking for that image. Does anyone know the mountain and icefall well enough to do a little MSPaint job indicating where the avalanche came from, how far down the glacier the snow came, etc.? 
|
#
?
Apr 27, 2015 02:21
|
|
|
|
| # ? May 16, 2024 08:06 |
|
|
Dely Apple posted:Google recently put up a really cool view of the Khumbu region area. Which is now sort of sad to browse through, isn't it. Seriously though, if you want to gawk at the Himalayas and do some high-altitude hiking (and puking) the Annapurna Sanctuary is where it's at. Look. 
|
|
#
?
Apr 27, 2015 02:28
|
|
|
spite house posted:Seriously though, if you want to gawk at the Himalayas and do some high-altitude hiking (and puking) the Annapurna Sanctuary is where it's at. Look. When you live in a city you kinda forget sometimes the world can look that way.
|
|
#
?
Apr 27, 2015 02:31
|
|
|
spite house posted:I've wanted to trek the Annapurna Sanctuary since forever, but it looks like Kathmandu being all hosed up will seriously impede tourism for awhile. Which sucks a lot from a spoiled-arrogant-first-up-against-the-wall Westerner perspective, but is also a drat shame because of how much revenue they'll lose when they need it most. loving bummer. the sierras are just a little mini version but with trees, modern infrastructure and other cool poo poo just go there and ruin our own country with your unbagged feces 
|
|
#
?
Apr 27, 2015 02:34
|
|
|
quote:any good documentaries about annapurn or other non-everest mountains? Touching the Void is about a dude with the worst loving luck on a mountain called Siula Grande. Best climbing documentary imo.
|
|
#
?
Apr 27, 2015 02:38
|
|
|
I saw that one already, it was rad
|
|
#
?
Apr 27, 2015 02:39
|
|
|
There's always the ones about the K2 disaster, think someone mentioned them last page or something. I don't think there are really any for Annapurna, which is too bad.
|
|
#
?
Apr 27, 2015 02:41
|
|
|
Necros posted:im sure all the people who are regulars itt already know, but this guy owns and pretty much runs up mountains that kill nearly half the people who make it to the top. Wasn't he planning to do that for Everest this season?
|
|
#
?
Apr 27, 2015 02:53
|
|
|
ethanol posted:the sierras are just a little mini version but with trees, modern infrastructure and other cool poo poo Well that's HDRd and time-lapsed to poo poo. I mean some of the Sierras are cool in the spring when there is snow still but mostly melted with flora blooming, but it often looks like this  which still is nice but kind of blurs together in a mix of pine trees, granite and dying shrubbery.I guess Kings Canyon/Sequoia is cool in the winter too 
|
|
#
?
Apr 27, 2015 03:04
|
|
|
Those aren't the Sierra Nevadas, there's water and snow 
|
|
#
?
Apr 27, 2015 03:05
|
|
|
Gringo Heisenberg posted:Touching the Void is about a dude with the worst loving luck on a mountain called Siula Grande. Best climbing documentary imo.
|
|
#
?
Apr 27, 2015 03:10
|
|
|
I wish dumb people would stop bringing up the retarded and impossible hypothetical situation of K2 ending up taller than Everest. Not gonna happen and you're not the first to bring it up. Stfu.
|
|
#
?
Apr 27, 2015 03:10
|
|
|
Sierra Nevadan posted:I wish dumb people would stop bringing up the retarded and impossible hypothetical situation of K2 ending up taller than Everest. Actually you stfu bitch I will make it happen
|
|
#
?
Apr 27, 2015 03:19
|
|
|
gently caress you, I will use my faith and god to raise that mountain so it will be the tallest.
|
|
#
?
Apr 27, 2015 03:22
|
|
|
Xaris posted:Well that's HDRd and time-lapsed to poo poo. I mean some of the Sierras are cool in the spring when there is snow still but mostly melted with flora blooming, but it often looks like this Dely Apple posted:Those aren't the Sierra Nevadas, there's water and snow    obviously a very hostile environment, in this one I decided to actually traverse the ice. It was almost suicide and I'm a bout ready for everest 
|
|
#
?
Apr 27, 2015 03:36
|
|
|
Rolex did a pretty interesting travelogue about a Swiss team climbing Annapurna (not quite to the top): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KgqaZRCcJl4
|
|
#
?
Apr 27, 2015 03:42
|
|
|
Madcosby posted:I remember in Touching the Void, Joe Simpson talks about how solo climbers are kinda taboo in the climbing world, but I cant remember the logic behind why Pretty sure it was because solo climbing is generally considered suicidal. If any goes wrong, you're basically hosed. When you climb with a group the odds of dieing horribly are significantly less likely, assuming you have confidence in the skill level of your partner. Also I highly recommend the Touching The Void documentary. Its really interesting and morbid, but you don't even have to feel bad about it in the end because both of the guys miraculously got out alive. tentative8e8op posted:his favorite mountaineering music(in a new window) Tralalalala 
|
|
#
?
Apr 27, 2015 03:44
|
|
|
 The green section is the basecamp area, and it was some quantity of the Pumori ridgeline that came down.
|
|
#
?
Apr 27, 2015 03:48
|
|
|
gannyGrabber posted:Does anybody know what the current death tool on Everest is for this year..? Avalanche!
|
|
#
?
Apr 27, 2015 04:04
|
|
|
Veskit posted:To play devil's advocate this dumb mountain brings in a lot of tourist dollars so it's smart of them to throw them a line up on that mountain to maintain their economy. It'd be a PR disaster to just stand up all of your customers on a mountain because you have a loving country to save or some bullshit. Eh, it would be a PR disaster to let local citizens die while limited government resources are diverted to rescue foreigners too. Tourists bring in money, but often the locals despise them. Nepal is a parliamentary system, so they do have to pay attention to how things will look to the voters. There absolutely will be stories of kids and grandmas dying after being trapped in the rubble for days, and people will be looking for someone to blame. The tourists will come back regardless. Proving that everest is still really dangerous and not just a crappy theme park for boomers with a bucket list will make it even more attractive for some people.
|
|
#
?
Apr 27, 2015 04:04
|
|
|
So David Breashears went up to film in 1996 and again this year, right? Because if so, if I ever head to Everest and see him there setting up the cameras, I think I will try something safer like K2 or Annapurna.
|
|
#
?
Apr 27, 2015 04:05
|
|
|
His camera was really a photon gun, shooting his avalanche rays at the mountain in a desperate bid to make K2 taller.
|
|
#
?
Apr 27, 2015 04:06
|
|
|
As a computer programmer, I can safely say Everest is gay
|
|
#
?
Apr 27, 2015 04:10
|
|
|
Everests is a fail mountain.
|
|
#
?
Apr 27, 2015 04:12
|
|
|
Puppy Galaxy posted:Everests is a fail mountain. not much win for those dead climbers lol
|
|
#
?
Apr 27, 2015 04:16
|
|
|
where do mountaineers go after they die?
|
|
|
#
?
Apr 27, 2015 04:17
|
|
|
Feminition posted:where do mountaineers go after they die? imgur
|
|
#
?
Apr 27, 2015 04:20
|
|
|
Lmao a bunch of rich people died "cause its there"
|
|
#
?
Apr 27, 2015 04:25
|
|
|
Feminition posted:where do mountaineers go after they die? mostly they just stay up there and become a landmark for other climbers
|
|
#
?
Apr 27, 2015 04:25
|
|
|
Feminition posted:where do mountaineers go after they die? like the crevasse or something?
|
|
#
?
Apr 27, 2015 04:26
|
|
|
Venusian Weasel posted:Wasn't he planning to do that for Everest this season? i dont think so. last time i heard him talk about everest he said he had no plans to go back any time soon after almost getting murdered. his ankle is broken right now too. do the people who hang out in here really hate him? when i was following one of the older threads during the time that poo poo went down i dont remember people feeling that way. Idunno if i buy the whole thing about him knocking ice onto the guys setting rope. the guy who supposedly had his face bruised at first said it was from him slipping or something. pretty sure thats what he told the government investigation officials too. it wasnt until later it started circulating that it was from ice knocked down by stecks team.
|
|
#
?
Apr 27, 2015 04:27
|
|
|
ethanol posted:the sierras are just a little mini version but with trees, modern infrastructure and other cool poo poo Skip this, come to Canada instead. Here's some pics by your's truly.       We want more tourist dollars because Harper cut almost all our funding and now people are going in and poaching our bears and everythings dying because all our rangers and scientists were fired 
|
|
#
?
Apr 27, 2015 04:41
|
|
|
Picnic Princess posted:We want more tourist dollars because Harper cut almost all our funding and now people are going in and poaching our bears and everythings dying because all our rangers and scientists were fired Oh great, now everyone knows where to go if they want to poach bears.
|
|
#
?
Apr 27, 2015 04:59
|
|
|
I want to go to Canada but I'm a poor third-worlder
|
|
#
?
Apr 27, 2015 05:06
|
|
|
This is the most straight forward glacier I ever saw.
|
|
#
?
Apr 27, 2015 05:18
|
|
|
A polite glacier, one that just wants to get to Tim Hortons and roll up their lid to win some Timbits.
|
|
#
?
Apr 27, 2015 05:20
|
|
|
it looks far too dangerous to me, it could fall . stay away from that thing
|
|
#
?
Apr 27, 2015 05:26
|
|
|
"@AlexGAVAN posted:Stranded climbers evacuation from camp1&2 continues. 3 helis fly non stop. Only 2 people per shuttle due to high altitude. Weather good. I had half hoped they would make an epic descent of the new icefall but uh, I can see why doing that isn't viable. Kinda surprised that finding three helicopters and flying them non-stop is.  Also, the total dead on Everest is now pretty stable at 22. Who is the winner? Blitter fucked around with this message at 05:41 on Apr 27, 2015 |
|
#
?
Apr 27, 2015 05:33
|
|
|
Update on the Langtang village situation: https://www.facebook.com/rachel.buckner.334/videos/o.1618410661725880/10153003894928411/?type=2&theater This is from someone who was there the night before so the numbers may be wrong, but there were around 300-400 people in the village and she believes there's at least 40 survivors. A lot of Europeans in that village.
|
|
#
?
Apr 27, 2015 05:43
|
|
|
|
| # ? May 16, 2024 08:06 |
|
|
Blitter posted:I had half hoped they would make an epic descent of the new icefall but uh, I can see why doing that isn't viable. Kinda surprised that finding three helicopters and flying them non-stop is. Aren't there still a whole bunch of people unaccounted for? Or have they been found?
|
|
#
?
Apr 27, 2015 05:50
|
|
