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I read that whole effort post. That was my everest I have no guess for the pool but going in for cannibalism long shot
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SaNChEzZ posted:What is this game? #Everest, a game I made largely based on the life and times of our favorite Canadian Lady and the yearly Everest threads. I gave a little synopsis upthread that got quoted in the OP. Download and play it now, then download and play it again once I release the next build some time this weekend with some massive tweaks and improvements. Bonus - special world record just for you included with every playthrough! 
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koreban posted:The gods having had their fill the last two years will only require the sacrifice of 6 brave souls this season. See, I feel otherwise. Over the last two seasons, the gods have had their fill of hardworking sherpas and poor Nelapese locals, but are starved for the souls of conceited rich westerners. It's time to settle the score.
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Xibanya posted:Easiest way as I see it would be to replace one of their oxygen tanks with a tank of nitrous oxide. They wouldn't even notice they were suffocating. Bonus - take a spare for yourself and do whip-its at base camp to pass the time while acclimatizing. Hell just take one of their oxygen tanks for yourself. I'm sure people have been killed on everest for their O2 supplies.
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Xibanya posted:#Everest, a game I made largely based on the life and times of our favorite Canadian Lady and the yearly Everest threads. I gave a little synopsis upthread that got quoted in the OP. Download and play it now, then download and play it again once I release the next build some time this weekend with some massive tweaks and improvements. Bonus - special world record just for you included with every playthrough! Sounds good. Also a+ use of heidecker gif
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Has anyone asked why someone couldn't just make a compressed suit to get around the death zone issue? That's my favorite.
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Put me in for 19 people are going to die this season.
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blowfish posted:have any everest corpsicles gotten a darwin award by the way I wanted to try and look this up but wow, I don't think they've updated their website since 1997.
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Feb 5, 2016 06:54
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I'm predicting 8 deaths.
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Picnic Princess posted:I've had altitude sickness and smashed my skull on rocks. I am not well. that is so far the only normal explanation ive read.
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I Might Be Adam posted:Has anyone asked why someone couldn't just make a compressed suit to get around the death zone issue? That's my favorite. Why couldn't someone just make a compressed suit to get around the death zone issue?
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Year after year, Mt Everest continues to eat people for putting their lives at risk for asinine me-too bragging rights. I'm betting that this is the year people fight back. Forty-two people will die heroically in the process of settingt off enough explosives at the summit to knock Everest off its perch as the world's tallest.
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How long until they install the escalator?
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Random Hajile posted:Year after year, Mt Everest continues to eat people for putting their lives at risk for asinine me-too bragging rights. Then people will just try climbing K2 and instead of a half-dozen dead out of 100 it'll be 88 dead out of 100.
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You make a compelling case.
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King Vidiot posted:Then people will just try climbing K2 and instead of a half-dozen dead out of 100 it'll be 88 dead out of 100. Nah because the sherpas aren't that loving stupid and so there will be no impoverished third-world brown people to enable wealthy Westerners with next to zero alpine experience. The main reason the Everest tourist climbing industry exists at all is because, once the Sherpas fix all the ropes in place, it's an easy climb that anyone in reasonably good physical shape can potentially perform, regardless of experience level. K2 is not that. Also, having defiled the sacred mountain by blowing its top off, the entire country of Nepal will be too outraged to continue allowing westerners to come poo poo up their mountains at all.
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improved death rate and we get to show an uppity mountain who's boss? i like this plan
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I watched Beyond the Edge tonight. Was good. There's a part early on where it talks about how a bunch of people had died with no summits. I reckon these last two years have been great for Everest's KDR so I'm excited to see if she keeps it up.
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Leperflesh posted:Nah because the sherpas aren't that loving stupid and so there will be no impoverished third-world brown people to enable wealthy Westerners with next to zero alpine experience. The main reason the Everest tourist climbing industry exists at all is because, once the Sherpas fix all the ropes in place, it's an easy climb that anyone in reasonably good physical shape can potentially perform, regardless of experience level. K2 is not that. Good point. I amend my previous estimate to a 100% death rate.
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Leperflesh posted:Nah because the sherpas aren't that loving stupid and so there will be no impoverished third-world brown people to enable wealthy Westerners with next to zero alpine experience. The main reason the Everest tourist climbing industry exists at all is because, once the Sherpas fix all the ropes in place, it's an easy climb that anyone in reasonably good physical shape can potentially perform, regardless of experience level. K2 is not that. K2 is on the Pakistan/China border. It's not part of the Himalayas at all.
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I love tracking the everest season so I'm gonna try my hand at the deathpool with 7 westerners and/or 3 sherpas, on the basis that everyone is spooked by the recent years' catastrophes and will bail at the first sign of trouble.
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I'll make the call for 28 dead on Everest this year--one of whom will die from frostbite, attempting to pose for a selfie with a dragon dildo in the Death Zone.
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There will be 11 fatalities on Everest this year. I am sure of it.
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Sure whatever I read his thread every drat year. 9 people will beef it on the mountain.
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Going to have another storm on the summit this year I can smell it. Plus with no one being able to go the last two years it's going to be loving chaos. 28 dead tourists.
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It's very weird to find this thread for the first time and 10% of posts are about how great it is every year and how they learned so much, and 90% are just lame death pool predictions. Does it kick into gear during climbing season or something?
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Why cookie Rocket posted:It's very weird to find this thread for the first time and 10% of posts are about how great it is every year and how they learned so much, and 90% are just lame death pool predictions. Does it kick into gear during climbing season or something? This is a yearly event now, a lot of us have been following it for years...the deathpool and joke posts will die off soon (like a Canadian lady) and we'll start posting SERIOUS stuff. At some point I will take photos of the rather large collection of Mountain books I have accumulated and do review type thingies. If you want to get started, Into thin Air is the best book to set off with, it is a first-hand account of the 1996 disaster which signaled the start of the crazy ego driven and summit-chasing maniacs dying on a yearly basis. If you want to watch something, Ever(ever-ever-)est-Beyond the Limit is a good start. Get used to hearing about Tim Medvitz's injuries though. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZLCIpovtkU
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Rondette posted:This is a yearly event now, a lot of us have been following it for years...the deathpool and joke posts will die off soon (like a Canadian lady) and we'll start posting SERIOUS stuff. At some point I will take photos of the rather large collection of Mountain books I have accumulated and do review type thingies. If you want to get started, Into thin Air is the best book to set off with, it is a first-hand account of the 1996 disaster which signaled the start of the crazy ego driven and summit-chasing maniacs dying on a yearly basis. When does the climbing season officially begin?
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I can do a serious post and recommend some books within the next week as well. I've read a ton of stuff about mountaineering in the last couple of years and have found a couple of real gems.
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Serious posts. And then someone dies trying to drag a giant cross up and we laugh
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Dead Precedents posted:When does the climbing season officially begin? Most expeditions get to base camp in late March and summit attempts are in mid-May. Then the mountain shuts down in June/July for the monsoon, and there's another window for attempts in late August through September.
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Here is a cool gif of basecamp. Really shows how high up it is when you realize the clouds are right there.
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Live posting from Everest now! watching the 2015 film and Montell Jordan even gets a feature
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Arsenic Lupin posted:Check out the book or movie The Eiger Sanction. The movie has especially good climbing scenes all filmed in the dark ages before modern climbing shoes allowed everyone to be spiderman.
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Nuggan posted:Here is a cool gif of basecamp. Really shows how high up it is when you realize the clouds are right there. 
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The Sherpas are mad that you disrespected the mountain gods they have gone home so you can carry your own drat gatorade cooler
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Bip Roberts posted:The movie has especially good climbing scenes all filmed in the dark ages before modern climbing shoes allowed everyone to be spiderman. One of the stuntman climbers was killed by rockfall during filming, it's legit.
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