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Outrail posted:Uh, how does he do anything with one loving finger?
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# ? Oct 7, 2016 21:44 |
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GTO posted:Wow, 5000m isn't even that high, relatively speaking. You can drive that high in parts of the Andes and Himalayas. Altitude hits harder if you're exhausted/dehydrated/etc.
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# ? Oct 7, 2016 21:44 |
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Altitude sickness can affect you if you gain elevation too quickly too, I've had it at 9400' because I drove from 3200' to 8000' in about an hour and a half then hiked up at too fast a pace.
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# ? Oct 8, 2016 00:35 |
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There's so many environmental and physiological variables at play in altitude sickness that there's no way to definitively predict it who will get it at what altitude. It's very much a "watch for it and take steps to mitigate and treat it if it comes up" kinda thing. It sounds like they made all the sensible choices in reaction to her symptoms, and it just didn't work out. RIP cool-as-hell-sounding Parks Canada lady
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# ? Oct 8, 2016 00:54 |
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https://www.engadget.com/2016/10/11/sports-illustrated-mount-everest-climb-vr/
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# ? Oct 12, 2016 14:11 |
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The idea of this is really neat, and I hope they don't screw it all up with voiceovers and floating text and production values, trying to make it into a movie rather than just stringing together the raw footage.
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# ? Oct 12, 2016 16:59 |
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was it everest or a different mountain that a google exec instagrammed drinking coffee talking about how safe the mountain was then died the next day?
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# ? Oct 17, 2016 21:39 |
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Jose posted:was it everest or a different mountain that a google exec instagrammed drinking coffee talking about how safe the mountain was then died the next day? everest.
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# ? Oct 17, 2016 22:02 |
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Everything is packed. I'm flying to Kathmandu tomorrow. If everything works according to plan, I'm in Lukla on friday, Namche Basar on saturday and Base Camp on november 2nd.
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# ? Oct 18, 2016 15:05 |
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Dead on November 3rd.
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# ? Oct 18, 2016 15:15 |
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Cojawfee posted:Dead on November 3rd. Or earlier.
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# ? Oct 18, 2016 15:18 |
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elwood posted:Or earlier. Make sure you update this thread when you die so we can make the appropriate photoshops and so on.
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# ? Oct 18, 2016 15:23 |
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Paramemetic posted:Make sure you update this thread when you die so we can make the appropriate photoshops and so on. I will instruct my social media team immediately.
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# ? Oct 18, 2016 15:52 |
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elwood posted:Everything is packed. I'm flying to Kathmandu tomorrow. If everything works according to plan, I'm in Lukla on friday, Namche Basar on saturday and Base Camp on november 2nd. http://youtu.be/gvKs2VLmVnY
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# ? Oct 18, 2016 17:13 |
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elwood posted:Everything is packed. I'm flying to Kathmandu tomorrow. If everything works according to plan, I'm in Lukla on friday, Namche Basar on saturday and Base Camp on november 2nd. Good luck! I'm on the Annapurna Circuit at the moment and it's pretty drat amazing. Especially since most teahouses have WiFi.
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# ? Oct 19, 2016 02:16 |
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aapadr4PEY8
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# ? Oct 19, 2016 15:28 |
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An excerpt from a new book about mountaineering by Gabriel Filippi. It's pretty sobering, though this part's blackly comedic.quote:Frank had been sitting there for just over a year. He’d climbed to the top without oxygen, but he’d been so focused on that goal, he’d refused help from everyone else on the mountain, even as it became clear to those around him that he wasn’t going to make it. When he sat down to catch his breath at the base of the wall, he slipped into a coma and died. His death was a result of high-altitude cerebral edema. But it was entirely self-imposed. He’d succumbed to the one danger that scared me the most, the one you can’t see: the danger from within.
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# ? Oct 21, 2016 23:50 |
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Update: I'm in Namche Right now. Still alive elwood fucked around with this message at 09:23 on Oct 22, 2016 |
# ? Oct 22, 2016 08:13 |
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elwood posted:Update: I'm in Namche Right now. Still alive Dead man posting
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# ? Oct 22, 2016 08:30 |
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Basecamp hike only, iirc
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# ? Oct 22, 2016 08:35 |
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Shangri-Law School posted:An excerpt from a new book about mountaineering by Gabriel Filippi. It's pretty sobering, though this part's blackly comedic. Stories like this always break me up a bit because I get that feeling, that never-give-up drive, but the mountain just does not give a poo poo how spunky or determined or willful or confident you are. If it's time to turn around, it's time to turn around right now. Summit fever kills.
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# ? Oct 22, 2016 10:53 |
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elwood posted:Update: I'm in Namche Right now. Still alive Sweet. How's the temperature?
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# ? Oct 22, 2016 11:29 |
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About 10-12 C in the sun and a bit above freezing at night.
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# ? Oct 22, 2016 12:40 |
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elwood posted:About 10-12 C in the sun and a bit above freezing at night. Sounds like perfect weather for hiking if the huts aren't too cold at night.
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# ? Oct 22, 2016 17:08 |
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simplefish posted:Basecamp hike only, iirc We know. People have died of altitude sickness on that trek too though. It's still high up.
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# ? Oct 22, 2016 17:35 |
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That is loving awesome, elwood
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# ? Oct 23, 2016 01:37 |
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I'm prepared to be patient: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-10-23/junko-tabei-first-woman-to-climb-mount-everest-dies-aged-77/7957662 quote:Junko Tabei: First woman to climb Mount Everest dies aged 77 Updated about 3 hours ago
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# ? Oct 23, 2016 02:35 |
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Picnic Princess posted:That is loving awesome, elwood Yeah, those are some fantastic photos.
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# ? Oct 23, 2016 03:13 |
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Namche Day 2 Everest is right above the ax (and my finger in the bottom left, drat). elwood fucked around with this message at 06:45 on Oct 23, 2016 |
# ? Oct 23, 2016 06:32 |
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What if you fall off the edge of town?
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# ? Oct 23, 2016 06:51 |
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Cojawfee posted:What if you fall off the edge of town? That's something I would do.
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# ? Oct 23, 2016 07:06 |
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How many hours did it take to climb from here: to here:
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# ? Oct 23, 2016 17:57 |
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honestly you could probably do that in an hour...
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# ? Oct 23, 2016 19:25 |
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Cojawfee posted:What if you fall off the edge of town? Obviously you warp around to the other side of town. Jfc, play a loving video game once in a while...
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# ? Oct 23, 2016 20:57 |
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DerekSmartymans posted:Obviously you warp around to the other side of town. Jfc, play a loving video game once in a while... what if you fall into the skybox and just keep falling into forever
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# ? Oct 23, 2016 21:14 |
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VOTE YES ON 69 posted:How many hours did it take to climb from here: 15 minutes
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# ? Oct 24, 2016 01:04 |
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Namche to Thame elwood fucked around with this message at 08:27 on Oct 24, 2016 |
# ? Oct 24, 2016 08:11 |
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How high is EBC again? I'll be going over Thorung La pass in a few days in the Annapurna region and that's 5416 metres. Any requests on corpse position if I succumb to HACE or HAPE?
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# ? Oct 24, 2016 09:03 |
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Aphex- posted:How high is EBC again? I'll be going over Thorung La pass in a few days in the Annapurna region and that's 5416 metres. Any requests on corpse position if I succumb to HACE or HAPE? Pants around your ankles, hand on your genitals.
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Arivia posted:Pants around your ankles, hand on your genitals. thumb in the rear end in a top hat
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