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zedprime posted:It's got to be super embarrassing when a Texas realtor is more compassionate than you are. To be fair, it'd be a relatively simple matter for someone like him to just come back next year. That might not be so easy for the bucket-list tourists who might have saved up for hears to pay for the trip.
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If you have to save up for years for one Everest trip, you shouldn't climb Everest.
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PostNouveau posted:I see a lot of expeditions attached to some kind of charity or something that the climbers aim to raise money or "awareness" for. Is there really enough interest in climbing Everest in the general public to actually raise money? Not really, it's a way for the people setting it up not to feel bad about begging, and to make it tax deductible. The charity gets the leftovers or a flat fee for using their names. Nobody goes "yeah climb Everest and I'll give $50 to cancer research".
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Kurtofan posted:Pingu Yo being the first white male Australian with Scottish ancestry to get swallowed by a horde of man penguins shuffling eggs is on my bucketlist
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A Saucy Bratwurst posted:yah but if you get on a boat and go to antartica whos gunna stop you? Noone. Except an avalanche: http://www.everestnews.com/everest2008/mountainmadnesseverest05162008.htm posted:The Polish Guy Also of note is the "100 year avalanche", in 2005.
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NFX posted:Also of note is the "100 year avalanche", in 2005. Thats not how "100 year ________"s work.
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Levitate posted:gently caress that you can pay $15 for the permit and walk up the trail yourself without paying some rear end in a top hat to carry your gear. Goddamn what a waste of money it'd be to pay $1000 for Whitney I saw so many people just plain quit the trail halfway through, many of whom this was their 2nd attempt. I mean it's a long and grueling hike, but it's not that hard to do in a day. Those are the people who need porters, people who don't train for a long hike with altitude gain.
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unpacked robinhood posted:Of all the things that can go bad on everest you have to admit a giant loving earthquake would be stressful to say the least Those people looked like they were running away from a lot of snow coming at them, which seems quite reasonable.
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Honestly I'd rather be outside at Everest base camp during an earthquake than outside in a city with no enforced building codes.
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MOVIE MAJICK posted:How far would the average goon make it on an Everest expedition before they died? I thought about it for 15 seconds, and I'm dead now.
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I looked up the highest chairlift in the world, and it's at the Chacaltaya ski resort in Bolivia at 17,785 feet. That's higher than Everest Base Camp, but my dream of sitting up to the summit is dead.  The ski resort's kind of dead, too, because global warming ate the glacier. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eqbt4b2Oatc
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Jose posted:I'd recommend everyone drive up Pike's Peak if you're in Colorado. You can drive from Colorado Springs right onto the top of the mountain at 4000m+ although I can't recommend staying too long since you have to drive back down. I was only up there for about 5-10 minutes and was starting to get dizzy since there is no acclimatization Seconding this, I did a Philmont trek with my scout troop in the late 90s in New Mexico, elevation at base camp is 10,000 ft which is a big deal if you're from the great lakes region. We spent three days in Colorado Springs and another two at base camp acclimating to the altitude before starting. Among the touristy poo poo we did in Colorado was driving up Pike's Peak and it definitely kicks your rear end. I don't know if they still do it but I remember they had a pretty good scam going - they checked everyone's brake temperature with an IR thermometer on the way down, and it seemed everyone's brakes were too hot. So why don't you stop at the overpriced gift shop and restaurant for 15-20 minutes so they can cool down?
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They did check peoples breaks constantly but we were never forced to stop
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Well known fact you need a Peugeot 405 T16 to drive up Pike's peak safely https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ex5JM5P-Lm0
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or a self built Motorbike https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWy3MD88418
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Grim Up North posted:In related news, Dani Arnold climbed Matterhorn ten minutes faster than Ueli Steck. I saw a cross on that video at the top... someone built a cross at the summit!
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Chris! posted:Another new video of the moment the quake hits on Everest. She said in the video they ran up the mountain to get under some rocks. It does look that way. So they ran toward the avalanche I guess?
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So I'm aware of the Pikes Peak race, but surely they must have robust rail guards, since the best racers will ride the knife edge of control on the car and sometimes lose traction, right? Nope. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCCNNpmt8ds I Greyhound fucked around with this message at 01:53 on May 3, 2015 |
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May 3, 2015 01:49
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If that's the crash I'm thinking off, both survived and sold their story to recaro, to make ads. Pretty amazing though, the safety in rally is incredible.
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The money you pay IMG includes stuff like tents and food and climbing education. But yeah, for people who already know how to climb mountains and already have the gear, climbing mountains is relatively affordable, especially if you're doing it alpine style and not having a gang of locals carry you and all your poo poo.
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A Saucy Bratwurst posted:If that's the crash I'm thinking off, both survived and sold their story to recaro, to make ads. Gotta make up for the Group B poo poo somehow I guess
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Levitate posted:gently caress that you can pay $15 for the permit and walk up the trail yourself without paying some rear end in a top hat to carry your gear. Goddamn what a waste of money it'd be to pay $1000 for Whitney Yeah, in summer (if you win the permit lottery). That $1000 is for a guided snow climb, which is a different story. It's about as difficult as Rainier. Meatwave fucked around with this message at 02:20 on May 3, 2015 |
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwdC1Yi3OG8 E: Recaro probably gave them a lot more money but their welder and cage designers really deserve all the thanks. underage at the vape shop fucked around with this message at 02:26 on May 3, 2015 |
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May 3, 2015 02:23
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Nepal has copped another earthquake. Why the gently caress would anybody want to try going up again?
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Because it's there.
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There's a major potential for setting a new world record here - first to summit Everest in the midst of a 7.0+ magnitude earthquake 
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DumbparameciuM posted:Nepal has copped another earthquake. 5.1 quake isn't that big of a deal. That's about 500 times smaller than the 7.8 quake. For reference there were four earthquakes 5.0 or above today, same thing yesterday, Richter is log 10.
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monster on a stick posted:5.1 quake isn't that big of a deal. That's about 500 times smaller than the 7.8 quake. I’d say that any quake when you’re attached to the side of a snow-covered mountain or traversing a giant sheet of ice that’s already sliding around without any extra shaking required is a bigger deal than you’d really want to have.
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Do you think the tour companies laugh at their clients behind closed doors or completely take themselves seriously and believe that they're making Dreams Come True etc.
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more people in nepal died far away from everest than on everest. maybe if everyone is on everest, it will be safe
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Concerned Citizen posted:more people in nepal died far away from everest than on everest. maybe if everyone is on everest, it will be safe Yes, mount everest has begun sheltering its climbers from any harm.
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Ursine Asylum posted:I’d say that any quake when you’re attached to the side of a snow-covered mountain or traversing a giant sheet of ice that’s already sliding around without any extra shaking required is a bigger deal than you’d really want to have. A 5.1 is going to be closer to "there was a quake?" than causing the mountain to vibrate and the ice sheets to move unless you are right on top of it.
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Cojawfee posted:Pike's Peak is one of the most famous rally courses. It was - it's lost a lot of its traditional challenge after they paved the whole thing. I mean it still gets some pretty cool entries and the run is a lot faster but the magic is kind of gone.
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I watched the summit and Pemba Gyalje is a machine. How he spent that long up there 
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The Subaru crash at Pikes Peak is bad, but Dallenbach's in Unlimited was way more scary https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2J3fFttQrmA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MnolSTQgy9Y Here's the record set after it was paved https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y20CLumT2Sg IIRC Pikes Peak is the second oldest race in the US, behind only the Indianapolis 500 Seizure Meat fucked around with this message at 15:10 on May 3, 2015 |
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A Saucy Bratwurst posted:you call an evo a subaru around the wrong ppl and you'll probably get a very severe stern look mang I post in AI all the time, haha I haven't seen the crash since it happened and forgot the car. Shoulda watched the vid for a refresher
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