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Slippery and bummer are the best dog names.
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Rondette posted:Also rather sweet is the list of the dog's names (although they don't appear to list 'friend of the family' which was on the relief expedition boat) lmbo at all of these dog names but especially "friend of the family", "Painful", & "Satan"
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May 5, 2015 12:03
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Looks like the 2015 Everest climbing season is probably over. http://www.outsideonline.com/1976456/sherpas-refuse-fix-everest-route quote:Sherpas on Monday refused to fix the route through the Khumbu Icefall, which was destroyed in the April 25 earthquake, likely ending this year’s climbing season, the AP reports.
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May 5, 2015 13:57
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That article makes it sound like the Sherpas are to blame for the lost climbing season, how DARE they refuse working on the paid-for fixed ropes?
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May 5, 2015 14:06
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Mr. Funny Pants posted:Looks like the 2015 Everest climbing season is probably over. Again, crazy alpine climbers don't use that fixed rope.
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May 5, 2015 14:07
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Default Settings posted:That article makes it sound like the Sherpas are to blame for the lost climbing season, how DARE they refuse working on the paid-for fixed ropes? i dont think thats true, i think you can read into it whatever you want. to me it reads like the sherpas are refusing unsafe and stupid requests from the govt/companies who only care about revenue. also the sagamartha pollution control committee is actually in charge of the mountain route, so this is pretty official anyway.
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May 5, 2015 14:21
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Rondette posted:I'm just now reading 'South' by Ernest Shackleton, incredible story and for a change no one dies! more should be done to commemorate mrs. chippy and friend of the family, the trans and poc members of the expedition RIP in pieces e: and also songster and jasper who were surely the gays, and smuts who was sexually liberated. kindermord fucked around with this message at 14:58 on May 5, 2015 |
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May 5, 2015 14:54
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Mrs. Chippy has his own book, apparently: http://www.amazon.com/Mrs-Chippys-Last-Expedition-Shackletons/dp/0060932619
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May 5, 2015 15:12
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Mr. Funny Pants posted:Looks like the 2015 Everest climbing season is probably over. The share counter on that site gliched out and decided the sherpas deserve all my 5s  
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May 5, 2015 15:20
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Rip ms. Chippy
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May 5, 2015 16:25
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Rondette posted:I'm just now reading 'South' by Ernest Shackleton, incredible story and for a change no one dies!
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May 5, 2015 17:26
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Doctor Schnabel posted:Assuming you've read more than the one, would you say Shackleton's account is your favorite telling of this little adventure? Are there any others I should look at? Lansing's telling, maybe? I haven't read any others yet so dunno. However there is a 3 part series on Netflix US called 'Chasing Shackleton' which sets out to recreate faithfully the 1500k journey they took to get to South Georgia. VVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVV Yeah it's the latter, I think it is a PBS special. Not watched the Nova one yet, I'll have to winkle that one out. Rondette fucked around with this message at 19:46 on May 5, 2015 |
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May 5, 2015 18:32
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The nova special on Shakleton is good too. If I remember correctly it has a lot of Hurley's photography. E: Is the multi parter the one where they try to recreate the voyage from Elephant Isle to South Georgia? I grew up in a sail boat so that poo poo just blows my mind. Happy Hedonist fucked around with this message at 19:29 on May 5, 2015 |
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May 5, 2015 19:25
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xie posted:i dont think thats true, i think you can read into it whatever you want. to me it reads like the sherpas are refusing unsafe and stupid requests from the govt/companies who only care about revenue. It may just be that they'll need 2 weeks or more to fix the route, in which case no one will actually get to the summit before the weather window slams shut. The acclimatization regimen is normally several trips up and down between base camp<->camp 1, camp 1<-> camp 2, etc, spanning a few weeks. If it's late May before people can even set foot in Camp 1, they won't possibly be able to acclimate and climb before the jet stream moves back in.
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May 5, 2015 22:58
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i can't get over those dog names, they are the best
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May 5, 2015 23:05
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So is the poop mountain still there then? Maybe this isn't a coincidence...
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May 5, 2015 23:09
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OMGVBFLOL posted:lmbo at all of these dog names but especially "friend of the family", "Painful", & "Satan" friend of the family was quite a common name for black dogs early last century. When the RAF flew the famous 'Dambusters' mission in WWII the squadron leader Guy Gibson decided the codeword for a successful mission would be a tribute to his recently deceased and much beloved dog, a black labrador... They tend to leave that bit out of the films these days but I do love the image of a bunch of stiff upper lip officers stood round in RAF mission control waiting for someone on the other side of Europe to shout 'friend of the family!' over the radio. The crowd goes wild! Perhaps the first example of the famous FYAD humour?
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May 6, 2015 00:35
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-rR-5wClag
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May 6, 2015 02:11
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darkwasthenight posted:friend of the family was quite a common name for black dogs early last century. When the RAF flew the famous 'Dambusters' mission in WWII the squadron leader Guy Gibson decided the codeword for a successful mission would be a tribute to his recently deceased and much beloved dog, a black labrador... now I'm imagining those old timey photos of the RAF with Barnacle Jim and a goat photoshopped over the faces
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May 6, 2015 02:21
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darkwasthenight posted:a bunch of stiff upper lip officers stood round in RAF mission control waiting for someone on the other side of Europe to shout 'friend of the family!' over the radio /home/users/nigelfarage/dream_diary.txt
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May 6, 2015 02:33
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Harvard has an interview with an HMS doctor who was at a clinic in the high Himalayas: [url]http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2015/05/destruction-across-the-city/
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May 6, 2015 13:14
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Cliff Racer posted:If you think ponies are weird there's the curious case of the Yukon camels to think about. Even modern camels are well equipped for winter conditions. 
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May 6, 2015 13:30
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steinrokkan posted:Even modern camels are well equipped for winter conditions. And why wouldn't they; poo poo gets cold at the desert during the nighttime. (Although it is a bit suprising that they can live with constant freezing conditions, unlike the Italian trains we spent years acclimating to the Northern Europe winter conditions.)
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May 6, 2015 15:38
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Der Kyhe posted:And why wouldn't they; poo poo gets cold at the desert during the nighttime. That's a Bactrian camel, they're from Central Asia, and I think there are even some in Mongolia. They do very well in the cold. The "normal" camel that most people think of is a Dromedary. It has one hump, Bactrian have two.
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May 6, 2015 17:36
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Beardless posted:That's a Bactrian camel, they're from Central Asia, and I think there are even some in Mongolia. They do very well in the cold. The wild Bactrian camel is also one of the rarest large mammals in the world, and may be extinct like the tarpan or aurochs. (Although there are some in zoos from wild stock.)
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May 6, 2015 17:58
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steinrokkan posted:Even modern camels are well equipped for winter conditions. The Yukon camels were modern, they got shipped up there during the goldrush. Sadly the venture was not profitable.
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May 7, 2015 13:09
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Does anyone have that gif of the khumbu icefall receding and coming back? I can't seem to find it.
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May 7, 2015 13:59
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Khumbu icefall back and forth, forever George H.W. Cunt fucked around with this message at 14:31 on May 7, 2015 |
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May 7, 2015 14:07
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Cliff Racer posted:The Yukon camels were modern, they got shipped up there during the goldrush. Sadly the venture was not profitable. Oh, I thought you meant the extinct high arctic camels that lived in today's Canada.
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May 7, 2015 21:51
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To follow up because I posted about Holiness Drukpa's Live to Love organization in this thread for people to donate, I wanted to share some pictures from Facebook of where that money is going.  quote:Live to Love relief efforts in Nepal continue on the ground following the 7.9 earthquake that struck the region, killing thousands and affecting an estimated 8 million people. Now returning to Everest/Antarctica talk.
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May 7, 2015 23:48
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LorrdErnie posted:Does anyone have that gif of the khumbu icefall receding and coming back? I can't seem to find it. http://imgur.com/ZpFAdFl
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May 8, 2015 01:04
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Minor update, the camels were actually shipped to British Columbia, not Alaska and the Yukon, and yeah they were Bactrian camels.
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May 8, 2015 01:10
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Cliff Racer posted:Minor update, the camels were actually shipped to British Columbia, not Alaska and the Yukon, and yeah they were Bactrian camels. Ï', waiting for the first camel to brave the Everest summit.
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May 8, 2015 01:15
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Neat set of pictures from inside a crevasse: http://www.antarcticglaciers.org/2012/12/down-into-the-dark/ I've been trying to find pictures of crevasse exploring but I guess it's too dangerous to be a thing.
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May 8, 2015 01:59
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Gringo Heisenberg posted:Neat set of pictures from inside a crevasse: Yeah gently caress sliding down into this deathhole. 
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May 8, 2015 02:04
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drat you guys know a lot about camels
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May 8, 2015 02:57
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So I'm continuing reading Shackleton's South, and there is a line casually dropped in that made me stop. It basically was along the lines of "I started suffering snow blindness, had to take some cocaine" I wonder how many amazing achievements of yesteryear were done with the help of a bit of the old coke to gee them along. The guys that recreated Shackleton's sail and walk were OK with the boat part but the mountaineering part totally scuppered them. I bet they didn't stop for a toot every so often.
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May 8, 2015 05:33
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Rondette posted:So I'm continuing reading Shackleton's South, and there is a line casually dropped in that made me stop. It basically was along the lines of May have been used as a topical eye anesthetic as opposed to  since snow blindness is painful, but interesting to think about nonetheless.
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May 8, 2015 05:53
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Madcosby posted:drat you guys know a lot about camels The anti-goon: can walk for miles and humps
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XOIC of Radishes posted:May have been used as a topical eye anesthetic as opposed to yeah, cocaine eyedrops were common before it was banned. combo of mild anaesthetic & stimulant was good at easing pain.
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