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To be honest the idea that it's financially irresponsible is definitely not true at this point if a person is moderately spent affluent and determined. It's practically charitable, frankly.
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It would be more charitable to donate that money to a charity than to put people's lives (including your own) on the line for bragging rights.
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Yes that's true but we're not talking about what the most charitable thing he can do is, we're talking about whether it's selfish and wasteful to spend money to summit Everest, or if it's just dumb. The guy is planning to do Everest so I mean other uses of that money are irrelevant, there are a million things someone could do with money etc. If rich people want to climb Everest now is a good time to do that thing for helping Nepal is all I'm saying Edit: watch him try the Tibetan side 
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The Light Eternal posted:Lmao this will probably end like the goon who tried to walk across the US A reminder that the walkgoon is in this thread. I have no idea how it ended because I haven't read much past the OP at this point, but thanks for making me remember this exists! That thread title is pretty special 
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wrong thread sorry
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xie posted:wrong thread sorry Make up for it by going on a dig  Nice to see this thread again, I'm reading The White Spider at the moment, about the North Face of the Eiger. Very very good, and it is interesting reading stuff from the Sixties, the attitudes and culture around mountain climbing doesn't really seemed to have changed that much.
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DetroitVectorSmooth posted:
LOL now list all the completely in shape people who loving died. Go on, do it Reddit Man.
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The Light Eternal posted:Lmao this will probably end like the goon who tried to walk across the US how did that end?
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Kurtofan posted:how did that end? Three days and an Uber taxi home. http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3714480&userid=0&perpage=40&pagenumber=1
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Soylent Yellow posted:Three days and an Uber taxi home. That thread was amazing. I was so glad to see that unfold over real time.
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Soylent Yellow posted:Three days and an Uber taxi home. thank you for sharing this
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i feel bad for this family but they should read this thread http://m.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11494553 why did you not pick up bits of my family on k2 this is bullshit you could have carryied an arm or something you didn't even dig a grave in the rock at high altitude you weak pussy i know you have a shovel in your pack Casio_knight fucked around with this message at 12:16 on Aug 11, 2015 |
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Casio_knight posted:i feel bad for this family but they should read this thread The implication is that the remains have been washed down the mountain almost to base camp, so it's not like some bodies hanging off a dangerous death precipice. But even if it is the case that the bodies as too dangerous to risk retrieving, the guy posting the video is obviously an unapologetic douche. 1) Posts video of corpses speculating that it's these recently dead climbers, and doesn't even bother to inform their family (wtf). 2) Sounds like a pretentious shithead: "Being accused of being disrespectful towards the dead and their families is, of course, a matter of opinion," he wrote. "However, I do apologise if I have offended anyone who lost loved ones and do not see life, and death, in the same way I do." Yeah I see death differently I guess  "not my intent to offend - only to inspire" - let me take some inspiring videos of some mangled corpses lmao, how inspiring, so deep, gosh how insignificant we are, nature is awesome, respect da mountain
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There are a lot of pictures of dead bodies linked to in this thread.
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Most of the pictures of dead people on Everest are not particularly graphic, or have been dead for decades. Any photoshops are after the fact and fine, whatever. Not particularly tasteful though. Dead people are a pretty potent warning and at least useful in that regard, but there's a difference between a distant photograph published with your consent and finding a video of your recently deceased dead father/husband and brother/son, and getting a nice close up of their crushed and desiccated heads.
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Jeza posted:Most of the pictures of dead people on Everest are not particularly graphic I dunno there's that one of the dude/lady sitting down with their head exposed and it's all skull and dead skin weathered away but their body is still just intact, that's pretty graphic and no one seems to mind that that's all over the internet.
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I'm sure not all photos of corpses on Everest are consented to. There's probably been cases like this before, and will be again, but I'll stick to my guns here: the classy thing to do if you discover human remains and you can't retrieve them is to document them, then contact the people you believe they are related to and ask whether they want to see them, or would consent to have them published. This is especially true when you have 110,000 likes on your Facebook page, and you know whatever you publish is going viral. Specifically not publishing it in full graphic detail because you are some kind of new age kook who believes in spirits and other garbage, and insist on putting your views on display to educate people.
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Look at these corpsicles I found #JustMountainThings
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If you're tacky enough to leave your nasty corpse just laying around that you don't really get to complain when people take pictures of you while on vacation.
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Which way to Stalingrad comrade?
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Jeza posted:"However, I do apologise if I have offended anyone who lost loved ones and do not see life, and death, in the same way I do." That but unironically. These people do walk past corpses all day on Everest and while K2 isn't the same outwardly visible body pile (thanks, avalanches,) it still has a bunch of human remains in the vicinity. Anyways, since Everest is shut down for the year, do we have a winner for the death pool?
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Jeza posted:Which way to Stalingrad comrade? What is this from? How did the guy end up like that?
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Cliff Racer posted:That but unironically. These people do walk past corpses all day on Everest and while K2 isn't the same outwardly visible body pile (thanks, avalanches,) it still has a bunch of human remains in the vicinity. Whether or not mountaineering automatically gives you some kind of stoic and spiritual acceptance of death, I was mostly objecting to the guy's grossly patronising non-apology. Day Man posted:What is this from? How did the guy end up like that? From some point during winter of 1942 iirc. Russians took a frozen German corpse and stuck it upside down as a signpost. Not 100% where it is pointing to though, possibly Berlin, or maybe something more practical.
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Jeza posted:Which way to Stalingrad comrade? thats a cool way to die imo
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Jeza posted:Which way to Stalingrad comrade? Looks like a stand up guy.
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Jeza posted:Which way to Stalingrad comrade? What's the color of boots on that one?
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Pierogi posted:What's the color of boots on that one? lol just lol if u think the russkis didnt take his boots
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UK goons, there is a programme on channel 4 tomorrow at 9pm about this year's Everest earthquake.
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2015 on Everest isn't over yet - sherpas are back up on Everest trying to rebuild the route through the Khumbu Icefall in time for the fall climbing season:quote:The Icefall Doctors, a team of Nepalese workers who set the ladders and fixed ropes through the Khumbu Icefall up to Everest’s Camp 1, arrived at Base Camp on Monday to begin repair work on the route, according to the Himalayan Times. The route was damaged in the April earthquake that struck Nepal and killed thousands of people in Kathmandu and the surrounding area. The Icefall Doctors are aiming to fix the route in time for the fall season.
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Rondette posted:Make up for it by going on a dig The White Spider has; it's melting fast. 
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 IT'S HAPPENING: EVEREST OFFICIALLY REOPENED http://www.foxnews.com/world/2015/08/23/nepal-opens-everest-to-climbers-for-1st-time-since-avalanche/ quote:Japanese climber Nobukazu Kuriki will be the first to attempt to scale the world's highest peak since the quake. Nepal's tourism minister, Kripasur Sherpa, gave Kuriki his climbing permit at a ceremony in Kathmandu on Sunday.
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It's fitting that the first one back is a guy who most likely will require a team of Sherpa to drag him up the mountain and pretty much do everything since he only has one finger. What the gently caress.
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