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Ok, yeah, the Vanity Fair article says:quote:Everest was the last peak in Pittman’s grand plan to become the third woman in history to scale the Top Seven, the highest mountains on each continent. So she had climbed (six of) the Seven Summits, and not six of the seven highest mountains in the world, all of which are concentrated in the Himalayas and Karakorams and are actively hostile to human life by sheer dint of there ain't enough loving air to keep you alive, in addition to all the usual mountaineering hazards.
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Crazycryodude posted:Not really, the actual mountain itself is a moderately challenging hike that anyone in decent shape can do, there's no technical challenge just "did you buy a coat warm enough to not freeze to death Y/N?". The hard part is having the money and connections to get to the rear end end of nowhere to begin with, if you can get to the foot of Mount Vinson getting to the top is no problem. Climbing it proves you're rich and connected, not that you're a good mountaineer. One day this will be almost word-for-word true of Olympus Mons, except that it’s really wide so the hike would take several days. Some rich rear end in a top hat will be first to the top. 
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Jan 9, 2021 21:13
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Platystemon posted:One day this will be almost word-for-word true of Olympus Mons, except that it’s really wide so the hike would take several days. If Elon Musk sends himself to Mars, you can guarantee he will make sure that he is the first person to make it to the top.
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Jan 9, 2021 21:25
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Cojawfee posted:If Elon Musk sends himself to Mars, you can guarantee he will make sure that he is the first person to make it to the top. It won't be considered a real ascent unless he does it without supplemental O2 though.
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Jan 9, 2021 21:35
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Platystemon posted:One day this will be almost word-for-word true of Olympus Mons, except that it’s really wide so the hike would take several days. Olympus Mons is so shallow that if you're standing at the foot of it, the peak is under the horizon
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Jan 9, 2021 22:02
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Platystemon posted:One day this will be almost word-for-word true of Olympus Mons, except that it’s really wide so the hike would take several days. Anyone going to summit loving olympus mons will naturally be insanely connected. But assuming one does not use a more sensible vehicle, one must climb through that nasty escarpment and/or walking weeks with no atmosphere (low gravity through!), probably through thick layers of volcanic dust (think walking through Rub al-Khali at places) in a spacesuit that you can't afford to break in any way, carrying the appropriate gear and supplies (though rocket in oxygen, food and shelter to base camps I guess), in gravity that will weaken them over time (assuming the person is a recent arrival and not a native). So I'm pretty confident it would still require a real major physical effort to perform without dying during the attempt.
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Jan 9, 2021 22:16
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Think about the Sherpas forced to make musk safe on olympus mons
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Jan 10, 2021 10:46
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Tired: climbing Olympus Mons Wired: climbing Rheasilvia
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Jan 12, 2021 05:36
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When will someone be brave enough to try to climb one of the underwater mountains here on earth, just going down Or starting from the bottom and walking up? Idk, I’m not a mountaineer
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Jan 13, 2021 02:36
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rockear posted:This thread's got me watching mountaineering youtubes. This one to me conveys the absolute terror of ice climbing and steep ski descents better than anything I've seen. These dudes seem a little out of their depth honestly. As someone who's done a tiny bit of off piste snowboarding some parts of this gave me stomach cramps. https://youtu.be/TiGkU_eXJa8 Not sure if it was posted already but this one did it for me. I freaking love off piste skiing but holy hell I would rather saw off my legs than attempt this.
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Jan 13, 2021 02:54
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rotinaj posted:When will someone be brave enough to try to climb one of the underwater mountains here on earth, just going down No Sherpas underwater 
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Jan 13, 2021 21:46
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This was published yesterday: https://rockandice.com/climbing-news/alan-arnette-winter-k2-update-camp-2-destroyed-expeditions-in-jeopardy/ quote:Weekend winds destroyed Camps 1 and 2 plus a lower so-called “Japanese Camp.” Climbers cached their summit gear, and now a couple of teams are reporting it lost. The tents were secured and the gear stuffed into sacks for protection, but the winds, gusting over 80 mph, easily ripped the tents apart or blew the technical equipment and anchors off the mountain, including precious oxygen bottles. Big "gently caress you" energy from K2.
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Jan 13, 2021 23:25
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Wind died though, and the Nepalis are making a run at the summit right now. Slow going, last update had them rope fixing towards the bottleneck, summit potentially in 3-4 hours. https://www.alanarnette.com/blog/2021/01/15/winter-k2-summit-update-2-tracking-the-historic-summit-push/
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Jan 16, 2021 06:35
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Yes, it's like a lava lamp.
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Pack it up, folks. Mountain climbing has been conquered. https://www.alanarnette.com/blog/2021/01/16/winter-k2-update-first-winter-k2-summit/ "Around 5:00 pm on Saturday, January 16, 2021, the team of Sherpas and Nepalis stood on the summit of the world’s second-highest mountain, K2, on the border of Pakistan and China. They are positioning the summit as a victory for Nepal and the Sherpa nation. All ten climbers stopped 30-feet below the summit on a relatively safe spot (still on a 40-degree snow slope at 28,200-feet) so that they could summit together in a sign of solidarity. No individual was listed as first."
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Jan 16, 2021 16:30
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They have to make it down alive or it doesn’t count. 
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Jan 16, 2021 17:27
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Lol at the absolute vitriol and palpable envy that’s right now being poured out by “ice warriors” in the Polish media.
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Jan 16, 2021 18:04
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Colonel Cancer posted:No Sherpas underwater Diving is a whole wonderful world of breathing bizarre gas mixes and feeling totally safe right up until you make a mistake and die *gets high huffing nitrogen*
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Strategic Tea posted:Diving is a whole wonderful world of breathing bizarre gas mixes and feeling totally safe right up until you make a mistake and die *gets high huffing nitrogen* Tech diving is right up (down?) there with death-zone mountain climbing in the blatant-disregard-for-self-preservation department. That said, there is no nap better than a post-dive narcosis nap. 
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Strategic Tea posted:Diving is a whole wonderful world of breathing bizarre gas mixes and feeling totally safe right up until you make a mistake and die *gets high huffing nitrogen* oops that one fin kick was slightly too aggressive and outside perfect form, I guess it's time for all the silt in the cave to cloud our vision and make the loved ones of my two friends and myself widows and orphans
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Jan 16, 2021 19:46
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aw shucks, upwards of a few dozen people get to deal with the trauma of losing a child, a spouse, a lover, a parent, a close friend, all because I needed to get my danger rocks off
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Jan 16, 2021 19:47
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Dude shut up, you're giving divers poo poo yet you've said precisely nothing about the number of people who end up jerkin themselves to death while they've got a belt tied around their neck in a closet.
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Jan 16, 2021 20:03
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Drone_Fragger posted:Dude shut up, you're giving divers poo poo yet you've said precisely nothing about the number of people who end up jerkin themselves to death while they've got a belt tied around their neck in a closet. Noone else dies when you gently caress up your autoerotic strangulation.
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Jan 16, 2021 20:24
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If it's all consensual 
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Outrail posted:Noone else dies when you gently caress up your autoerotic strangulation. Lots of people die ...Of laughter!
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Anne Frank Funk posted:Lol at the absolute vitriol and palpable envy that’s right now being poured out by “ice warriors” in the Polish media. What's this about?
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Munin posted:What's this about? Polish teams managed 7 winter first ascents and tried and failed K2 repeatedly.
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Jan 17, 2021 00:08
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If we’re talking underwater senseless deaths then there are plenty of those too from crazy spelunkers
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Cave diving just seems like you're having a giggle, honestly. Was being underwater (the place where you can't breathe) not enough for you, my dude?
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Jan 17, 2021 09:53
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 They just keep coming 
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Strategic Tea posted:
I don't dive or climb mountains (because I'm a wimp) but this sign scares the poo poo out of me anyways, for some reason.
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MrYenko posted:Tech diving is right up (down?) there with death-zone mountain climbing in the blatant-disregard-for-self-preservation department. Mountain climbing supports the mountain climbing industry and mountain climber rescue industry. The two are nothing alike
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Jan 17, 2021 10:40
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The folks at the printer got that all screwed up. 
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Platystemon posted:The folks at the printer got that all screwed up. Lmao...nice job.
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Strategic Tea posted:
That's exactly the sign I'd put outside the cave I kept my treasure in. For further illustration of how loving insane divers can be, enjoy this story of an idiot throwing his life away in an attempt to raise the body of someone else who died when they thought it was a good idea to try diving to 900 feet underwater in a loving cave.
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I saw a sign exactly like that when I was diving in cenotes dos ojos. It's completely safe. Just pay attention to the sign and follow your guide. Edit: that cave diving story is great. Now that's dangerous cave diving.
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gohuskies posted:Having climbed six of the seven summits does not make you a skilled climber. All but Denali and Everest are just hikes of varying degrees of strenuousness, and even Denali doesn't have any technical climbing. Yeah nah that’s easily in the realm of “someone who actually belongs around a place like Everest.” It’s highly unlikely you’d bother doing that unless you were pretty into mountaineering. Drone_Fragger posted:Dude shut up, you're giving divers poo poo yet you've said precisely nothing about the number of people who end up jerkin themselves to death while they've got a belt tied around their neck in a closet. As a nurse unironically both are extremely preferable compared to the way the vast majority of people die.
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Fleta Mcgurn posted:I don't dive or climb mountains (because I'm a wimp) but this sign scares the poo poo out of me anyways, for some reason. Basic standard open water tourist diving is _amazing_, mostly completely safe (unless you're an idiot and do stuff you're not trained for), and you can always nope out of there and go up to the place where you can breathe if something goes wrong. My favourite holiday-in-the-sun activity ;D Cave diving (which will just kill you for any reason whatsoever) & rebreather diving (where equipment failure will literally kill you almost instantly without you knowing you are dying) are the reserve of idiots and crazy people who have a death wish, which is why that sign is there.
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kalleth posted:Cave diving (which will just kill you for any reason whatsoever) & rebreather diving (where equipment failure will literally kill you almost instantly without you knowing you are dying) are the reserve of idiots and crazy people who have a death wish, which is why that sign is there. I am trying to remember the one deep diving location that people keep throwing their lives away trying to get to the bottom- it's so deep that after top deep diving experts died there, the guy who went down to get their remains died, too (it was in National Geographic). Divers who lived describe it like mountaineering without oxygen- your thinking fuzzes up and is glacial and before you know it you're out of oxygen several hundred feet under water and your mind shuts down.
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