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Irradiation posted:Are there any reports of damage to the routes higher up on the mountain? The highest people were was camp 2 so it's be interesting if there's some other damage they dont know about yet. How awesome would it be if the summit fell off and now K2 is the world's tallest mountain.
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lmao at all of the idiots who got triggered by the gbs everest death pool... if you can't handle the heat stay out of the kitchen imo.
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I Greyhound posted:
I'm floored at the fact they are actually pressing on with this season. Well, only one thing to do 
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Mr. Funny Pants posted:"You yell 'high altitude pulmonary edema' , everyone says, 'Huh, what?' You yell 'massive loving avalanches triggered by unrelenting aftershocks' and you've got a panic on the thirtieth of April." INT. BRODY TENT – EVEREST BASE CAMP ELLEN Martin hates climbing. Hates the Himalaya. On the plane to the Nepal, he never looks out the whole way over. He's got this childhood thing, there's a clinical word for it. BRODY Suffocating.
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Apr 30, 2015 17:10
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Silent Linguist posted:A friend of mine and her siblings tried to do the Appalachian Trail a few years ago, but had to quit a week or two in because they were covered in mosquitoes 24/7. Apparently bug spray had no effect. Everest sounds like freaking paradise in comparison. Oh yeah, the bugs. Most of the portions I hike don't seem to have issues with swarms, it's more like constant random individual assaults, where you'll have things coming at you every 30 seconds to a minute. Then occasionally you'll hear something huge dive bombing at you from who knows where, and you kind of duck down and cover your head because you don't know what's making that sound but you're pretty sure it's coming right at you and you don't want it on you. It's like walking down a sniper's alley. Then you have to worry about brushing up against the wrong blade of grass or leaf tip, a tiny little deer tick will get on you, a couple days later you realize you got lyme disease. You'll also get plenty of those tiny little things that like going in your ears and give you an hour of a bright red burning ear. I use a strong controlled release DEET formulation. Then I top that with another repellent which has MGK-264 and MGK-326. That combo handles mosquitoes and most types of flies pretty well. Then I also pre-treat my clothes with permethrin to handle the ticks. That little combo makes the trail much more enjoyable. It's one of the reasons I like hiking the AT in deep winter. No bugs, it's great. I camped out over night once in 5F weather, during a snowfall, using two heavy duty garbage bags as a sleeping bag. I put one inside the other, stuffed leaves between the two for insulation, and froze my rear end off all night long while getting blanketed in snow. It was better than dealing with the bugs. XK fucked around with this message at 17:44 on Apr 30, 2015 |
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Apr 30, 2015 17:39
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There's another video of the moment the quake hit Everest: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-32540568 Pretty scary.
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Apr 30, 2015 18:53
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Lmao literal Hail Marys. As if the virgin mother is gonna protect your dumb rear end in shiva's domain.
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Sherpas sometimes make more than the Prime Minister of Nepal, and they're STILL poor. That is how poor Nepal is. A lot of knicknack sellers claim to be sherpas because it's the only ethnic group that tourists know despite there being 102 (that all sherpas take the last name "sherpa" really helps with recognition). Like if you're in Thamel, you're more likely to buy from a "Sherpa" shop than a "Newari" shop (or, G-d forbid, an "Aryan" shop). So yeah, they're going to try to keep the mountain open. As for the government, there's rioting in Kathmandu against the government's overwhelmingly lovely response to the earthquake, so we'll see what happens there. The government is pretty lovely in general, and people do not like them, but lack the resources to overthrow them because the government is Maoist and backed by China. But that's a whole 'nother story, let's just say that things are a little shaky and if you have a permit and are at base camp and have the apline experience to do a solo climb, I wouldn't blame you for trying.
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elwood posted:aaaand we are back: This is practically encouraging suicide at this point, isn't it?
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raditts posted:This is practically encouraging suicide at this point, isn't it? It never wasn't. Well. Not since at least the early 1990s.
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So, aftershocks aside, is the icefall really less stable now? It's always moving anyway. I suppose if the ice has more cracks in it now, there will be more calving versus "oozing" or whatever you call icefall movement. Video of oozing- http://link.brightcove.com/services/player/bcpid1519028538001?bckey=AQ~~,AAAAAASoY90~,_gW1ZHvKG_1U0LqDiRqg6y9siD7-Z_bO&bctid=927952126001 Also, Arnette has a cool video of flying over it http://www.alanarnette.com/blog/2015/04/29/everest-2015-north-closed-south-retreats-a-full-recap/
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Apr 30, 2015 21:32
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quote:The stories of “climbers stranded” in the Western CWM are simply untrue or a matter of exaggeration. We were the highest team on Everest at Camp 2. Others were below us at Camp 1. All had sufficient food, fuel, water and shelter to survive for days. A few individuals and one team choose to stay in the CWM hoping the Icefall would be fixed. I cannot say what their motivation was other than the helicopter flight was expensive if you didn’t have rescue insurance.
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Star War Sex Parrot posted:Holy poo poo why would you stay in the CWM?! Because you can summit the mountain if you just believe in yourself. always reach for your goals and dreams. going down would be giving up and with that attitude you will never climb the mountain.
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PS I don't think 'cwm' is an acronym, it's a word. As someone who learned the word cwm as a kid so I could lord my intelligence over other scrublords, I would know  Epitope posted:So, aftershocks aside, is the icefall really less stable now? It's always moving anyway. I suppose if the ice has more cracks in it now, there will be more calving versus "oozing" or whatever you call icefall movement. Video of oozing- http://link.brightcove.com/services/player/bcpid1519028538001?bckey=AQ~~,AAAAAASoY90~,_gW1ZHvKG_1U0LqDiRqg6y9siD7-Z_bO&bctid=927952126001 Goddamn anyone who thinks traversing that is a good idea, ever 
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polpotpotpotpotpot posted:PS I don't think 'cwm' is an acronym, it's a word.
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Apr 30, 2015 23:04
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It's like christmas in april. By the way, did anyone die in a cave underwater recently?
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polpotpotpotpotpot posted:PS I don't think 'cwm' is an acronym, it's a word. As someone who learned the word cwm as a kid so I could lord my intelligence over other scrublords, I would know CWM wouldn't be an acronym it would be an abbreviation. Although it could be an acronym if you pronounced it "coom" which is how it's pronounced because it's not an abbreviation, it's a word. Or whatever. I learned the difference between an acronym and an abbreviation as a kid so I could lord my intelligence over other scrublords.
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Marley Wants More posted:CWM wouldn't be an acronym it would be an abbreviation. Although it could be an acronym if you pronounced it "coom" which is how it's pronounced because it's not an abbreviation, it's a word. Or whatever. And yet, you're still getting it slightly wrong. Hah! An abbreviation is a shortening of a word. Examples include etc., Mr., Dr., SCUBA, and CIA. When you take the first letters of a string of words and assemble them in all caps, that's a type of abbreviation known as an initialism. If it's a pronounceable initialism, it's an acronym. So, if CWM stood for something, like Common Word Mistakes, then it's an abbreviation. If you can pronounce CWM (not by saying "cee double-you emm" but by saying, I don't know, "coom") then it's an acronym. If it's not pronounceable, it's an initialism. In all cases, it's an abbreviation. So many people call unpronounceable initialism "acronyms" that dictionaries are starting to include that as a valid definition, so the definition is changing. And most people will understand exactly what you mean, if you say "oh I thought CWM was an acronym, but I guess it's just the word 'cwm'" even if you're technically confusing what an acronym is. NOW WHO IS THE SCRUBLORD Leperflesh fucked around with this message at 23:28 on Apr 30, 2015 |
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Apr 30, 2015 23:26
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So what's autism like?
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It's like making money writing technical documentation for a living, e.g., it's good.
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Leperflesh posted:NOW WHO IS THE SCRUBLORD My avatar's cuter
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Do people really cheap out on rescue insurance? Like I know in curtain parts of the summit you get left to die, but you would have to be a special kind of stupid to not take it.
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Fumble posted:Do people really cheap out on rescue insurance? Like I know in curtain parts of the summit you get left to die, but you would have to be a special kind of stupid to not take it. I mean, if these people were really willing to seriously consider the mortal risk, they wouldn't be there at all, right?
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Fumble posted:Do people really cheap out on rescue insurance? Like I know in curtain parts of the summit you get left to die, but you would have to be a special kind of stupid to not take it. lol people will cheap out on literally anything to save a few bucks You could sell them carabiners made of plastic that didn't work at all for half the cost of regular ones and you'd sell fuckloads.
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Apr 30, 2015 23:45
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Oh, imgur made gif making easy.
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anybody got any idea of the timescale on that video? the snow is moving around which suggests days at least but the movement of the shadow at the end looks like the progression of a day I'd have assumed it was closer to days/weeks or putting up ladders would be more difficult than I thought
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Apr 30, 2015 23:59
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I don't think this has been posted yet, it's an interview with David Breshears about the whole earthquake thing. Start at 02:23:00. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b05s0vsn
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Madcosby posted:Hells yes this season just went from madness to full retard I'm sorry people with 18 in the pool. It was looking golden for you for a few days.
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http://himalayanexperience.com/newsletters/earthquake/the-daily-moraine-2015-3-earthquake-updatesquote:In the meanwhile I hear from Makalu that all the teams there want to finish expedition. Even Russell Brice's expedition is thinking about going for the summit? Wasn't it just a few years ago he pulled the plug on his entire group because he thought the conditions were too bad in the icefall, and he was the only expedition that did?
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May 1, 2015 00:15
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 cwm is Welsh you loving idiots
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that sign isnt bilingual who do i report this to
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May 1, 2015 00:32
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Cwm is welsh for valley, it's not that hard to type three letters into google.
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JFairfax posted:
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Happy Hedonist posted:I don't think this has been posted yet, it's an interview with David Breshears about the whole earthquake thing. Start at 02:23:00. Pro listen, its about 15 mins long and definitely worth it if you enjoy this thread
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XMNN posted:anybody got any idea of the timescale on that video? the snow is moving around which suggests days at least but the movement of the shadow at the end looks like the progression of a day It's from here, timescale in link Epitope posted:So, aftershocks aside, is the icefall really less stable now? It's always moving anyway. I suppose if the ice has more cracks in it now, there will be more calving versus "oozing" or whatever you call icefall movement. Video of oozing- http://link.brightcove.com/services/player/bcpid1519028538001?bckey=AQ~~,AAAAAASoY90~,_gW1ZHvKG_1U0LqDiRqg6y9siD7-Z_bO&bctid=927952126001
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Note: Everest shrank an inch due to the earthquake, so it's not even as big of an accomplishment as it was a couple years ago. http://www.nbcnews.com/science/environment/mt-everest-shrank-nepal-quake-lifted-kathmandu-n351271
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That post about the pct + reading about it makes me want to do it. imo that looks way more hardcore than everest at 1/6 the cost (plane tickets etc) maybe one day ill not be a poor and can fly to america and do it.
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mikemil828 posted:Note: Everest shrank an inch due to the earthquake, so it's not even as big of an accomplishment as it was a couple years ago. that's fine, all we need is for someone to freeze to the bedrock while directly atop the summit
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