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A Saucy Bratwurst posted:Any of the tall mountains near you will give a good view. The view from Kosciusko is pretty cool and its just a 2300m pimple compared to what you see elsewhere in the world. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_European_ultra_prominent_peaks Ultras aren't the tallest, they're the most prominent in their area.
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Wasabi the J posted:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_European_ultra_prominent_peaks Cool link, thank you!
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Jeza posted:Still waiting for people to climb the real highest peak on Earth, Mauna Kea. Tourists in total pitch darkness with special deep-dive submersible suits where one chink in the armour causes you to implode like crushing a can of coke. Also death by giant squid. The sherpas are some kind of mermen. I'm waiting for Olympus Mons on Mars 
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Fluo posted:I'm waiting for Olympus Mons on Mars whoa, what's that?!? there's no mountain that big!! no weay! ur foolin! tell me more about this "mons" i have never heard of this. man, this is cool, i'm glad someone brought this up. is this real? nobody's ever said anything about this in this thread!!
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Wasabi the J posted:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_European_ultra_prominent_peaks Mt Kosciusko wouldnt even be close to that list but you still get a cool view. Its that close to the second tallest (Mt Townsend) in Australia that they originally thought Townsend was the tallest. Something similar probably exists in every country http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Warning Even this gives a pretty good view and its only 900m tall. E: Mt Warning is kinda off though cause its at the middle of the 23 million old Tweed volcano that was twice as tall as Warning and 100 km wide. Standing from Warning, you can see for a very long way, you can see the rim of the Tweed volcano (the 100km wide one) with nothing in between because Warning stands alone. underage at the vape shop fucked around with this message at 14:15 on May 25, 2015 |
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Paramemetic posted:The first part there about stopping the bleeding is super important though. I've heard stories of medics accidentally embalming patients by pressure bagging saline in and displacing all the blood.  Welp, I'm never sleeping again.
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OMGVBFLOL posted:whoa, what's that?!? there's no mountain that big!! no weay! ur foolin! tell me more about this "mons" i have never heard of this. man, this is cool, i'm glad someone brought this up. is this real? nobody's ever said anything about this in this thread!! 
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prinneh posted:So besides kilimanjaro, mt fuji and Mount Kinabalu what are some reasonable mountains to climb/hike that aren't dangerous, but still pretty spectacular for someone with no real climbing experience? Preferably something not in the usa as I'm in Europe. All mountains can be dangerous without hiking/climbing experience. For a day hike you could for example hike to the top of the Zugspitze starting in Ehrwald Austria, crossing into Germany during the hike and ending up on top at roughly 3000m. It's a 14km hike with nice views and you can get back down by cable car. The top is tourist central though. There are several cable cars that take tourist there. You can also do it in 1 or 2 days from Garmisch-Partenkirchen on a 23k hike sleeping in a hut, or with a bit of climbing and via ferrata on the Höllentalroute. in a day. The first two tours can be done without guides, experience or special equipment. For the last one I would recommend a guide if you've never climbed/ went hiking in the alps before. A guided tour should set you back around 125 € plus 50ish for equipment rental.    First two are from the climbing option, last one from the hike. elwood fucked around with this message at 18:07 on May 25, 2015 |
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All I can see in this picture is someone exploiting a game mechanic using a rail gun.
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Ursine Asylum posted:All I can see in this picture is someone exploiting a game mechanic using a rail gun. If you tilt your head to the right, he's just falling down in some dude's rocky field.
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Minrad posted:If you tilt your head to the right, he's just falling down in some dude's rocky field.  
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That actually looks more realistic than the original.
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May 26, 2015 02:33
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OSHA would be pretty upset about that impalement hazard. Gotta put caps on all that exposed rebar.
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ITT we rotate (and crop a bit) mountain climbers to instead make them very clumsy people I hope he finds what he's looking for  
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prinneh posted:So besides kilimanjaro, mt fuji and Mount Kinabalu what are some reasonable mountains to climb/hike that aren't dangerous, but still pretty spectacular for someone with no real climbing experience? Preferably something not in the usa as I'm in Europe. Kinabalu! I love that mountain! I got to see it while on a field school a couple years ago. It's ridiculous.   This was from 30km/19 miles away. I was standing at an elevation of 1400' at a place called Sabah Tea Garden, and it's summit is 13,435'. It's loving massive.
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one last one. sorry, i was bored
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Madcosby posted:one last one. sorry, i was bored I approve.
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elwood posted:All mountains can be dangerous without hiking/climbing experience. For a day hike you could for example hike to the top of the Zugspitze starting in Ehrwald Austria, crossing into Germany during the hike and ending up on top at roughly 3000m. It's a 14km hike with nice views and you can get back down by cable car. The top is tourist central though. There are several cable cars that take tourist there. You can also do it in 1 or 2 days from Garmisch-Partenkirchen on a 23k hike sleeping in a hut, or with a bit of climbing and via ferrata on the Höllentalroute. in a day. The first two tours can be done without guides, experience or special equipment. For the last one I would recommend a guide if you've never climbed/ went hiking in the alps before. A guided tour should set you back around 125 € plus 50ish for equipment rental. This hike looks wunderbar, I'll look into it. Thank you! I have alpine hiking experience and a lot of hiking experience in general, I just don't want to be in any sort of place where I'll need to be strapped into a harness in order not to die. My friends are climbers but I am not and will never be, but I do love a good "walk-up" mountain for the views. Again, thank you for the suggestion, that whole area looks nice. Picnic Princess posted:Kinabalu! I love that mountain! I got to see it while on a field school a couple years ago. It's ridiculous. Your pictures are great and makes me wish I'd gone to that teashop when I was there  A Saucy Bratwurst posted:Mt Kosciusko wouldnt even be close to that list but you still get a cool view. Its that close to the second tallest (Mt Townsend) in Australia that they originally thought Townsend was the tallest. Something similar probably exists in every country These look great too, but I doubt I'll ever make it to Australia. It's on the complete opposite side of the planet from me and there are so many other beautiful places in between I'd rather visit. Hopefully someone else will see these suggestions and go up one or the other when they're there
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prinneh posted:This hike looks wunderbar, I'll look into it. Thank you! It's a pretty easy hike. I've done it as part of a mountain running race. If you take your time the austrian route should take about 6-7 hours.
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May 26, 2015 13:00
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It's the parts where you wish you were strapped into a harness that are best.
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Madcosby posted:one last one. sorry, i was bored Operation Hump the Peak is Go, I say again Go
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Rondette posted:I think it must be this one.... My uncle used to roll with these rescue guys. The bit he added on to this story was that both victims were in the 20 stone + category, and that the man's geriatric mother had been left in the car, parked outside the pub at the bottom. She'd watched night fall and gone to sleep, without thinking to raise the alarm when they didn't come back from their afternoon hike.
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George Mallory? Totally not straight. He wrote to Lytton Strachey about his own impending marriage: quote:“It can hardly be a shock to you that I desert the ranks of the fashionable homosexualists (and yet I am still in part of that persuasion) unless you think I have turned monogamist. But you may be assured that this last catastrophe has not happened.
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If you want to know about Mallory's sexploits, read "Into the Silence". It goes into extreme detail about all of his relationships, including with men. Seriously, it's impressive how much that book stretched even the tiniest facets of this man's life into multiple pages of rambling.
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Yessss, Mallory being a dandy makes him even cooler. RIP you majestic man.
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How long has that been there to get like that? 
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Fluo posted:How long has that been there to get like that? well, since 1924
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Pick posted:well, since 1924 Ah ok so it's a Sherpa
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wahat da ti thei joke you wh
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Pick posted:wahat da Well 7 people died in 1922, but only 1 person died 1924. :o
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Fluo posted:Well 7 people died in 1922, but only 1 person died 1924. :o
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tentative8e8op posted:Everest claimed four lives in 1924, two sherpas and two brits. The picture is of George Mallory, he disappeared trying to reach the top; an expedition found his body like so in 1999, Ah I misread the infograph  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFr1KdY6aiw Fluo fucked around with this message at 04:53 on May 27, 2015 |
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He doesn't look like that anymore, though. After their investigation and documentation of his final resting place, they piled a cairn over the body.
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I would honestly rather lead an expedition to find Irvine's body than actually summit the mountain.
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his mummy has holes in his butt. that video was gross as hell.
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Necros posted:his mummy has holes in his butt. that video was gross as hell. Dude was hollow. Probably died when the change in air pressure blew out his butt.
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Angela Christine posted:Dude was hollow. Probably died when the change in air pressure blew out his butt. After HAPE/HACE and avalanche, butt blow is Everest's biggest killer.
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