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Cojawfee posted:Let's just not do the whole death thing. Every year, we get a bunch of GBS dipshits coming in to poo poo up the thread because of it. I thought thats why were were just stealth rolling the same thread forward instead of advertising a new one.
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I think the real secret to avoiding GBS is to not post the new thread in GBS, but what do I know.
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Can't wait for news on the Polish K2 winter attempt, they should have started establishing a route today based on an old Alan Arnette blog post. Reposting the NYT article from earlier in the thread about their attempt.
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I've been wondering what their planned route was but looks like Cesan and maybe Abruzzi. Well good luck don't die
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Hexyflexy posted:7 - I'm getting my bid in early this year. Put me down for 0 again.
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Bill Burr is right (also an amateur helicopter pilot) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rSAzX209knE
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nsaP posted:Bill Burr is right (also an amateur helicopter pilot) It takes a special man to be so obnoxious to make me scramble for the stop button less than one minute into the video.
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AceRimmer posted:Can't wait for news on the Polish K2 winter attempt, they should have started establishing a route today based on an old Alan Arnette blog post. Well, this turned out to be a royal gently caress up thanks to the biggest dumbass this side of the death zone. The K2 expedition is as of now mounting a rescue operation for another Polish climber with a hardon for winter Nanga Parbat attempts (this was his seventh one). This guy, Tomasz Mackiewicz is a total amateur who got literally addicted to the idea of winter Nanga ascent after getting off heroin some years ago. The last attempt was in 2016 when he had to resign somewhere around 8000m. News soon came that another team were first to climb the mountain that season. Mackiewicz said that he doesn’t believe them and the photos from the top were photoshopped. So now he is somewhere above 7600m with hurricane winds smacking him around, altitude sickness and snow blindness to boot. The K2 expedition pledged to rescue him and his unlucky companion and they are suspending their attempt to fly to them.
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nsaP posted:Bill Burr is right (also an amateur helicopter pilot) Nothing makes me label someone more instantly than finding out if they agree with Bill butt. Bet you have strongly felt yet poorly formed opinions about movies and feminists.
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Pierogi posted:Well, this turned out to be a royal gently caress up thanks to the biggest dumbass this side of the death zone. Alan Arnette has more details http://www.alanarnette.com/blog/2018/01/26/disaster-developing-on-nanga-part-k2-team-to-launch-rescue/
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Pierogi posted:Well, this turned out to be a royal gently caress up thanks to the biggest dumbass this side of the death zone. the guy is gonna end up spending 48hrs~ abandoned at around 7200m (camp 4) before the rescue team can even reach him. well IF they can reach him. weather report for K2 has bad weather for today and they're not sure if the team can even leave. not holding out much hope for this guy, but hopefully they can get his partner, who left for camp 3 earlier.
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Wasabi the J posted:Nothing makes me label someone more instantly than finding out if they agree with Bill butt. Wow that's a pretty dramatic reaction to a dude's podcast but okay.
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Pierogi posted:Well, this turned out to be a royal gently caress up thanks to the biggest dumbass this side of the death zone. Welp that moron probably saved all of their lives, so, there's that.
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ewe2 posted:Why K2 in winter? Because it's there in the winter
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Morbus posted:Welp that moron probably saved all of their lives, so, there's that. You are assuming they're not going back to K2 after this.
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Nanga is angry and will likely treat the stranded duo and the rescue operation to 90kph winds and -68C temp in the next 10 hours. So it looks like 6 possible deaths because of 1 idiot with a deathwish.
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they're all idiots with deathwishes, just some of them have more coherent powers of rationalization
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I mean I get pretty reckless sometimes and have had some bad experiences but at least I'm nowhere near that level and have zero desire to put myself through anything like that.
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Climbing K2 requires a permit, whether you're coming from the Pakistan side or the Chinese side. So why did they get permits to climb in these conditions? Or is it like pay once and use it whenever?
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Doctor Malaver posted:Climbing K2 requires a permit, whether you're coming from the Pakistan side or the Chinese side. So why did they get permits to climb in these conditions? Or is it like pay once and use it whenever? So it’s the government’s job to decide who’s safe and who isn’t? That’s completely contradictory to the spirit of climbing. These guys are as qualified as just about anyone ever will be to climb K2 in winter, they deserved the chance.
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Elisabeth Revol made it down with the K2 team after K2 team choppered over yesterday. They've aborted the attempt to rescue the Polish climber Tomek Mackiewicz. Nanga scores additional points for this because the K2 climbers aborted their historic winter attempt.
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Oops, someone is angry that Murder God didn't get enough today!! https://twitter.com/vobonline/status/957421022701080576 https://twitter.com/vobonline/status/957471726874525696 https://twitter.com/vobonline/status/957478997222416384 Such bloodthirst, I like it!
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If they wanted to save their strength for K2 couldn't they have, idunno, like stayed there
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gohuskies posted:So it’s the government’s job to decide who’s safe and who isn’t? That’s completely contradictory to the spirit of climbing. These guys are as qualified as just about anyone ever will be to climb K2 in winter, they deserved the chance. Yes, it is? Government can decide that you can't swim in the Hoover dam and it can close a bridge when it's too windy and it can make it illegal for you to take ecstasy and it can not allow you to drive without a seat belt. There are plenty of activities forbidden by governments that are much less dangerous than climbing K2 in winter.
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Pierogi posted:Oops, someone is angry that Murder God didn't get enough today!! Ah yes, Denis Urubko what a wuss, why not send a real man who's better than him at high altitude winter climbing, such as...umm...hmm
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Pierogi posted:Oops, someone is angry that Murder God didn't get enough today!! I think she might be projecting a bit about the whole "blood on their hands" thing: https://twitter.com/vobonline/status/957480244369395712
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She is simply protective of her investment.
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Not sure how accurate this is quote:Later, Haidri said that Mackiewicz has been "presumed dead". He said the rescuers left the body at 7,400 meters as they could not bring it down. https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/on-nanga-parbat-killer-mountain-polish-climber-tomasz-mackiewicz-presumed-dead-1805618
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As always, with the caveat that as we are not up there we cannot say for sure what anyone can or cannot do but The second I saw news that Revol had descended somewhat it became quite clear that Mackiewicz could not be rescued. If this person's argument is that any group of climbers fit enough to have attempted a k2 winter ascent must also have been fit enough to brave the winds on Nanga Parbat to rescue someone, it is incredibly flawed. Going by the numbers, Nanga Parbat is more dangerous to climb than K2 at this point, no?
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A planned attempt is also fundamentally different to a rescue effort. Just because you’re controlling for certain risks on your planned work says nothing for the unplanned risks you’re being asked to wade into when you embark on a rescue effort.
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djssniper posted:https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/on-nanga-parbat-killer-mountain-polish-climber-tomasz-mackiewicz-presumed-dead-1805618 I like how they feel the need to mention that it's freezing up there.
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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/feb/01/french-climber-elisabeth-revol-describes-despairing-descent-on-pakistans-killer-mountain I didn't know the Polish guy was a father of three.  And the woman who has frostbites on three out of four limbs believes she will climb again in time because "she needs it".I think the reporting is too matter-of-fact, as if all this was just an accident. They should focus more on these climbers' mental health.
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quote:“I had hallucinations during the night. I imagined that people were bringing me hot tea. A woman asked me if in return she could take my shoe. At that moment I automatically got up, took off my shoe and gave it to her. In the morning when I woke up I was only in my sock.” Well they always told me getting high was dangerous.
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When I die I hope it's above Hillary step after eating an entire sheet of acid
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weg posted:Well they always told me getting high was dangerous. New thread title. Right there. Do it.
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I don't understand why they talk in menacing tones about the "killer mountain" when the real story is in asking why these people, many with families to take care of, willingly throw their lives away in a frozen hell they actively climbed and suffered their way into. The mountain is not going to force it's way into your flat to freeze your foot off, that's someone else's fault entirely. edit: jesus that story The Guardian posted:Asked if she would ever climb again, she told AFP: “I think I will. I need this.” barbecue at the folks fucked around with this message at 13:52 on Feb 2, 2018 |
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Nice piece of fish posted:New thread title. Right there. Do it. Agreed. New year, new title.
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barbecue at the folks posted:edit: jesus that story Ugh reminds me of that wingsuit guy who has had like more than half of his friends die and said he would stop once he had kids... And now he has kids and still tried to wingsuit off Everest anyway. It's a loving mental illness. Edit: Joby Ogwyn: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBqu2p5n-o8 Rotten Red Rod fucked around with this message at 20:59 on Feb 2, 2018 |
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