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dj_clawson posted:Plus Tibet is usually totally closed to foreigners in March (the anniversary of the Tibetan Uprising) and July (the Dalai Lama's birthday) Is that when the first one was born, or when the current one respawned?
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Figured I'd menton that I ran into my friend today at MEC (Canadian REI) and his boyfriend is safe, but has very little access to food. So my friend's bringing a huge stash of backpacking food to get by when he heads out tomorrow and they're going to work cleanup over there instead of the original plan of trekking. I also found out today that someone I went to high school was also there and is currently still missing. Kind of strange to know people who are going through this right now.
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soy posted:Color me surprised when I wake up to find out that my estranged mother is in Nepal somewhere via Facebook safety check-in thing. I have no details. Your estranged mother sounds way more interesting than you. Maybe you should buy her an account and stop posting.
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dj_clawson posted:I remember in the literature written about old school (pre-1980's) alpine climbers, they would hire like 80 people to move their gear to base camp, but when it came to actual climbing, it would basically be just them. They also wouldn't leave anybody behind. I think in the book "Annapurna" (overrated, BTW) it's mentioned that they were all tied together and they collectively refused to cut the rope when one of them slipped, so they all ended up hanging by one ice pick, determined to live or die together. part of that was the technology of the time. tents were waxed canvas or skins, cookware was iron, bedding & clothing was wool and silk, oxygen tanks were steel. it just plain took more people to pack a camp in and out because each person's weight surplus available for portaging was considerably smaller
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dj_clawson posted:I remember in the literature written about old school (pre-1980's) alpine climbers, they would hire like 80 people to move their gear to base camp, but when it came to actual climbing, it would basically be just them. They also wouldn't leave anybody behind. I think in the book "Annapurna" (overrated, BTW) it's mentioned that they were all tied together and they collectively refused to cut the rope when one of them slipped, so they all ended up hanging by one ice pick, determined to live or die together. Didnyt you just finish saying they would leave 80 ppl behind?
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MOVIE MAJICK posted:Didnyt you just finish saying they would leave 80 ppl behind? Its a mountain. They left the 80 people ahead.
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Rich people try to climb a mountain, the mountain eats them. I am ok with this.
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pookel posted:Good to hear. even then the regular media takes forever cause they have to write 1500 words of super clickbait vs 2% of that on twitter
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SpeedGem posted:Rich people try to climb a mountain, the mountain eats them. I am ok with this. Too bad it ate a guy that was apparently a major force behind driverless cars. That sucks.
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Apr 28, 2015 01:34
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Should've been behind climberless mountaineering.
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Blazing Ownager posted:Too bad it ate a guy that was apparently a major force behind driverless cars. That sucks. Thank you, mountain god.
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dj_clawson posted:I remember in the literature written about old school (pre-1980's) alpine climbers, they would hire like 80 people to move their gear to base camp, but when it came to actual climbing, it would basically be just them. They also wouldn't leave anybody behind. I think in the book "Annapurna" (overrated, BTW) it's mentioned that they were all tied together and they collectively refused to cut the rope when one of them slipped, so they all ended up hanging by one ice pick, determined to live or die together. You're mushing together two stories that happened one-after-the-other on K2 in 1958. The fall where everybody wound up hanging on one ice ax was caught by Pete Schoening; it was and is known as simply "The Belay". The guy who was dying and was carried anyway was Art Gilkey, who got high-altitude sickness and was being carried down the mountain. He fell off his rope, almost certainly making it possible for the healthy members of the team to survive. One of the surviving climbers thinks that Gilkey cut himself free to save the rest of the team. It's one of the great stories in mountaineering, and I heartily recommend "K2 — The Savage Mountain" which tells that and other stories.
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Where would you want to be right now, the ice falls or West Side Baltimore?
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Everest killed the google guy because it was mad about the search algorithm changes.
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Arsenic Lupin posted:You're mushing together two stories that happened one-after-the-other on K2 in 1958. The fall where everybody wound up hanging on one ice ax was caught by Pete Schoening; it was and is known as simply "The Belay". The guy who was dying and was carried anyway was Art Gilkey, who got high-altitude sickness and was being carried down the mountain. He fell off his rope, almost certainly making it possible for the healthy members of the team to survive. One of the surviving climbers thinks that Gilkey cut himself free to save the rest of the team. You're right; I've read both those books, so I'm mixing them up. But in general, they would all go up, and they would all either die or come down. No left behind bullshit like Beck Weathers had to deal with. Meanwhile: http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/education-community/article/1778116/nepal-officials-may-be-hindering-everest-rescue
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MOVIE MAJICK posted:Where would you want to be right now, the ice falls or West Side Baltimore? Both are pretty frosty to wasps
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Would it be possible to go Walter White on Everest? Basically whenever I get cancer or some terminal disease, I want to climb up to the summit and die in the most picturesque spot and ruin it for everyone forever. Would I be left there like Green Boots, or would some determined yuppie flip my frozen corpse over the edge, desecrating my body for the sake of an Epic Selfie? God drat I love Everest season.
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I think the problem is you'd have to die somewhere that's both protected from the elements as well as not a place where someone can easily shove you into a crevasse. Green Boots is still up there because it would be really difficult and potentially fatal to move him. He's also in a cave of sorts so he's protected from the elements. If you're out in the open, you'll get blown around in hurricane force winds at some point. Or someone might just shove you down to a place no one can see your gaping anus. In other news, the entire city of Kathmandu shifted ten feet in the earthquake. http://www.cbsnews.com/news/city-of-kathmandu-shifted-ten-feet-by-earthquake/
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Apr 28, 2015 03:48
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Die with a raging boner right where the last required handhold is so people have to give your frozen meatsicle a handy to summit.
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It's been two seasons since anyone has been to the top of Everest from the south side. Also, there have been something like 6 earthquakes above 6.0 magnitude in the area in the last week. One of the 8k peaks (Broad Peak I think) became significantly more difficult to climb a few years back because of an ice shelf collapsing. Kinda wondering if its possible if the same thing happened at Everest. I would guess not so much, since Everest is not know for having large and dangerous ice shelves like some of the other high peaks.
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Blazing Ownager posted:Too bad it ate a guy that was apparently a major force behind driverless cars. That sucks. Sono posted:Thank you, mountain god. Amen
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BULBASAUR posted:Amen
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Cojawfee posted:
Michio Kaku will lend his quotes to anything, won't he? Four years ago, he did a good deal of scare work regarding Fukushima without saying anything of substance. Now he's saying, "It turns out that India and China are colliding." Really? We needed to get you specifically for a high school textbook fact? There are thousands of geologists out there they could have interviewed.
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Kaku is annoying in that I have no idea what he does but everyone uses him as a scientific expert. Future technology? Kaku. Current technology? Kaku. Climate Change? Kaku. If I were just to go off the discovery channel, he probably has a degree in The Future. At least with Tyson I know he does astrophysics. He might be brought in to discuss other scientific things, but at least I know what is field is.
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he's the asian neil degrasse tyson
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CommunistPancake posted:he's the asian neil degrasse tyson That's not a very nice thing to say about Neil DeGrasse Tyson.
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Meanwhile, I have been going through news sites for images that match places I went to when I was in Kathmandu two years ago this week. I've found two from almost the exact same spots. Bhaktapur   Swayambmunath (aka, the monkey temple)  
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Chappers posted:Meanwhile, I have been going through news sites for images that match places I went to when I was in Kathmandu two years ago this week. I've found two from almost the exact same spots.  Thank you for these
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Holy poo poo, I was at both of those sites in 2012. I'm really glad I got there in time.
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So is the Earthquake a member of ISIS? Only the buildings that insult Islam were destroyed.
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raditts posted:That's not a very nice thing to say about Neil DeGrasse Tyson.
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danfredinburg 6 days ago Day 19: After snow delays, our Puja ceremony is finally underway. We piled up our gear on the alter to have it blessed. Lama Dawa Rita, a Sherpa from our Gurka team, asks the Goddess Everest for permission for our team to step through the ice fall soon. #Everest2015 #puja  michyramos Only God can be prayed to...God bless you Dan, I pray that your family finds peace in this tragic time ❤️❤️❤️🙏 https://instagram.com/p/1v_tCexFgR/
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A close-up of the tower destroyed in that first photo. Full size here: http://i.imgur.com/gtVIlrQ.jpg
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Fansy posted:danfredinburg Behead those who insult islam.
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