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Crusty Nutsack posted:I bet he's got some sweet rear end summit photos taken the exact moment his wife was dying though https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ToFErVHAuLQ
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Crusty Nutsack posted:I bet he's got some sweet rear end summit photos taken the exact moment his wife was dying though  
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May 30, 2016 19:04
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The only way to top this is to let your spouse die, and propose to someone else at the summit.
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May 30, 2016 19:07
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Baudolino posted:Would`nt he have died if he stayed with her?The death zone is not a place you wanna hang out in for one minute more then you have to. Seems just as much a matter of survival to abandon her. Better one corpse then two. Neither of them would have died if they had just turned around and went back when she felt she couldn't go on anymore. He asked her if he could keep going and she said she'd that was fine and she'd just wait there for him. If instead he had said "Oh, you can't make it? Let's both start back down together so you don't die" she might have lived.
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Xenomrph posted:I learned that my sister has a copy of the book Into Thin Air and I'm borrowing it from her now, have I made a good decision? The main thing about the book while reading it was how I pictured the entire events going down in constant pitch darkness by the way it was described, then I looked up some picture and it was all in broad daylight. It's a very surreal read.
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Some of it was at night. I had the same image in my head when I read it years ago. There's a whole part where people were waiting overnight.
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It's important to remember that both that guy and his wife were severely mentally incapacitated throughout the entire climb and especially up near the summit. His decision to leave her behind is similar to the decision an extremely drunk person might make when given responsibility for taking care of another severely drunk person. Any story he came up with is plausible based on that, but similarly, his memory of events is extremely unreliable and ultimately nobody will ever know exactly what took place, because there's no such thing as a reliable witness at eight thousand meters.
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May 30, 2016 19:34
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First man to loose two wives in a summit attempt
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First man to propose at basecamp, get married on the summit and then lose his wife on the way back down.
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Regrettable posted:Roosh V is a rapist PUA. Yeah, but has he ever starved a vegan to death? I think not!
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May 30, 2016 19:48
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her name is so close to being able to spell martyrdom
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Leperflesh posted:It's important to remember that both that guy and his wife were severely mentally incapacitated throughout the entire climb and especially up near the summit. His decision to leave her behind is similar to the decision an extremely drunk person might make when given responsibility for taking care of another severely drunk person. Any story he came up with is plausible based on that, but similarly, his memory of events is extremely unreliable and ultimately nobody will ever know exactly what took place, because there's no such thing as a reliable witness at eight thousand meters. But let's face it, that pair are this year's Canadian yellow-suit lady.
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At least he's a vegetarian and now gets to enjoy non-poo poo ice cream guilt free. 
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Baudolino posted:Would`nt he have died if he stayed with her?The death zone is not a place you wanna hang out in for one minute more then you have to. Seems just as much a matter of survival to abandon her. Leperflesh posted:It's important to remember that both that guy and his wife were severely mentally incapacitated throughout the entire climb and especially up near the summit. His decision to leave her behind is similar to the decision an extremely drunk person might make when given responsibility for taking care of another severely drunk person. Any story he came up with is plausible based on that, but similarly, his memory of events is extremely unreliable and ultimately nobody will ever know exactly what took place, because there's no such thing as a reliable witness at eight thousand meters. Exotic gas diving seems to be a similarly deadly activity that would absolutely devour day trippers, but "I reached 500 meters on Hydrox" doesnt sound as impressive as "I climbed loving Mount Everest" despite being way more badass. "My wife started having tremors at 480m so I left her for dead. If you don't think vegans can die of High-Pressure Nervous Syndrome, have I got some news for you."
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Yeah, if I'm hiking with a buddy and one of them says 'Nope I'm done' then we both turn back unless they explicitly say 'no no I'm fine, just can't go any further' and I'm confident they're not in any mortal peril'.
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The Guardian has a piece up on the dead vegan with details. He only left her for about 30 minutes.
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Outrail posted:Yeah, if I'm hiking with a buddy and one of them says 'Nope I'm done' then we both turn back unless they explicitly say 'no no I'm fine, just can't go any further' and I'm confident they're not in any mortal peril'. yeah but you don't pay 25k to hike with your buddy summit fever + sunk cost + retards = dead retards
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quote:Helped at times by a group of sherpa guides, and at other times apparently struggling on his own, he shared oxygen with Strydom until that ran out and then, suffering the effects of altitude himself, recalled that he had medication for altitude sickness. That's...quite a hell of a thing to forget.
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Gobbeldygook posted:The Guardian has a piece up on the dead vegan with details. He only left her for about 30 minutes. 30 minutes in the middle of the death zone might have made the difference anyway. They descended for hours afterwards and almost made it to camp 3 where rescue happens.
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Married couple prove 50% of vegans can do everything omnivores do
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Really, even though it's sad she died can anyone honestly say the world is worse off?
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Only death is certain in this life. Better to not climb Everest because ultimately who gives a gently caress that you did
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When I had my accident, the police questioned me and my husband separately to make sure he didn't push me off the cliff.
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Picnic Princess posted:When I had my accident, the police questioned me and my husband separately to make sure he didn't push me off the cliff. Did he? Or wait is he a goon too?
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Alan Smithee posted:Only death is certain in this life. Better to not climb Everest because ultimately who gives a gently caress that you did
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If blood thickens above 8000 meters (triggering the issues), would an injection of heparin or a dose of warfarin be helpful as a preventative?
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pr0zac posted:Did he? Or wait is he a goon too? No and no, thankfully. I'm just an idiot and he's not.
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girlwithgloves posted:If blood thickens above 8000 meters (triggering the issues), would an injection of heparin or a dose of warfarin be helpful as a preventative? If you spent all your money on the trip and can't afford prescription warfarin, just eat rat poison. Or just stay home and put a plastic bag around your head to simulate a summit attempt.
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Helicity posted:If you spent all your money on the trip and can't afford prescription warfarin, just eat rat poison. Or just stay home and put a plastic bag around your head to simulate a summit attempt. first man to climb everest with a bag over his head
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sometimes dudes who mountaineer are just dicks to women in general Lhakpa Sherpa has climbed Everest more than any other woman— and now she's on the mountain trying for her seventh summit. So why doesn’t anyone know her name? quote:On the witness stand at their divorce hearing, Lhakpa said through an interpreter that Dijmarescu [her ex-husband] had told her the same thing on multiple occasions—that if she took his girls away, “First I will kill you, and then the girls, and then myself.”
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Hahaha when I took my gf to the snow and she didnt like snowboarding I was like 'oh ok, well lets just go see the sights instead' That dude, wife dying in the death zone, asks if its cool if he goes summit anyway. And then says it meant nothing to him because she wasnt there. her death was literally for nothing. also lol that 'vegans can do anything' is the hill she chose to die on 
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Rondette posted:Welcome to the 6th Annual Something Awful Everest thread!
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Mega64 posted:That's...quite a hell of a thing to forget. This video is a good demonstration of oxygen starvation in action: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcvkjfG4A_M The guy is too far gone to even realize, when being directly told, that he's going to die if he doesn't put his mask back on. The video talks about using it as a method of execution because the person will die and be totally okay with it because they don't realize anything is wrong.
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Laserface posted:also lol that 'vegans can do anything' is the hill she chose to die on I mean, I'll give it up 
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Just got to the part of Everest Man v Mountain with the story of the guy on the North Face route who feel on another climber, breaking his leg, then ignored them and climbed further up the mountain to hit golf balls with a golf club off the face.  Anyone got more background on this story?
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stillvisions posted:This video is a good demonstration of oxygen starvation in action: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcvkjfG4A_M This video makes the whole situation with these people at the top of the mountain so real and terrifying. They really should have somebody to stop these people going up the mountain and killing themselves! Seeing the poor guy so close to dying and so oblivious really creeped me out.
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