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Seems like Nepal is making some new rules and at least trying to enforce some older ones for climbing Everest this season. https://adventureblog.net/2021/03/nepal-has-some-dumb-new-rules-for-climbing-everest-in-2021.html https://www.alanarnette.com/blog/2021/03/09/everest-2021-silly-rules-season-returns-from-nepal-government/ 1. Not allowed to share pictures of people not on ones team unless given permission from them or a government official. 2. Must provide a medical report from a doctor certifying mental and physical aptitude. 3. Must provide an itinerary of their travels plans which includes a debrief with Nepali officials after their attempt. 4. All rescue helicopters must fly to a well-equipped hospital due to a long standing insurance scam. The first one seems mainly because of that famous picture of the traffic jam of climbers headed to the summit taken by Nims in 2019. How they plan on cracking down on that is pretty laughable with cell phone coverage at basecamp. This year is definitely going to be an interesting one with Tibet err China still closed down and Nepal being the only side up. Teams should start making there way to Nepal in the next few weeks and climbing should start somewhere in mid April. Alan Arnette has already been putting together a team list for this years bid on Everest. https://www.alanarnette.com/blog/2021/02/28/everest-2021-team-locations-and-headlines/
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Outrail posted:- 1 box of Trojans (extra large) shoot, a fella could have a pretty good weekend in vegas with all that stuff
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shame on an IGA posted:shoot, a fella could have a pretty good weekend in vegas with all that stuff while mouthing ‘Dallas’
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shame on an IGA posted:shoot, a fella could have a pretty good weekend in vegas with all that stuff I'm gonna win this competition if it harelips everbody on Bear Creek.
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Mar 19, 2021 04:14
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Dead Nerve posted:1. Not allowed to share pictures of people not on ones team unless given permission from them or a government official. So wait is rule 1 just a "no bad publicity please" rule? Cool, cool
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What's the over/under on someone turning into a corpsicle based covid time capsule that'll come back to haunt us in a few decades?
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Paladine_PSoT posted:What's the over/under on someone turning into a corpsicle based covid time capsule that'll come back to haunt us in a few decades? lol at needing that for covid to still be around in a few decades. poo poo's here to stay
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Mar 19, 2021 18:58
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Yeah covid is going to be an annual thing now most likely.
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womb with a view posted:So wait is rule 1 just a "no bad publicity please" rule? Cool, cool lol yup. Dead Nerve posted:https://www.alanarnette.com/blog/2021/03/09/everest-2021-silly-rules-season-returns-from-nepal-government/ You can't just dump the rich tourists at the hospitals for our regular citizens that don't earn the descriptor "well-equipped"
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I think that one is so that people have to be dropped off at a real hospital that will see if anything is actually wrong with people to prevent insurance companies being scammed from people pretending to be sick, and then being taken by an overly expensive helicopter to a hospital that will look the other way and overcharge.
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Bahrain's Royal Guard is climbing Everest and they have their own instagram account. Bahrain Everest 2021🇧🇭 Bahrain’s Royal Guard climbed Lobuche (6119m) in September followed directly afterwards by Manaslu (8163m)Next is to summit Everest in April/May 2021. https://www.instagram.com/bahrain_everest/?hl=en
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NC Wyeth Death Cult posted:Bahrain's Royal Guard is climbing Everest and they have their own instagram account. Don't they have things to guard?
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You mean like a Bahrain Prince and his gift of 2000 Covid vaccines brought into the country illegally? The prince’s group, which includes members of the Bahrain Royal Guard, is returning to Nepal after climbing the 8,163-metre (26,781-foot) Mount Manaslu and the 6,119-metre (20,075-foot) Lobuche in October. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/3/17/mt-everest-bound-bahraini-prince-probed-over-covid-vaccine-gift This keeps getting awesomer in a "sure! why not? Set the controls for the horizon and scream!" kind of way.
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a few DRUNK BONERS posted:Don't they have things to guard? The Bahrain Grand Prix is on the 28th, so people will probably be busy protesting that instead of the royal family.
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Cojawfee posted:I think that one is so that people have to be dropped off at a real hospital that will see if anything is actually wrong with people to prevent insurance companies being scammed from people pretending to be sick, and then being taken by an overly expensive helicopter to a hospital that will look the other way and overcharge. I guess with dash cams everywhere the people who would jump in front of cars have to climb Everest now to commit insurance fraud. Real talk though, I guess its people who just chickened out and the hospital would play ball to get insurance to pay for everything?
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Pekinduck posted:I guess with dash cams everywhere the people who would jump in front of cars have to climb Everest now to commit insurance fraud. It went further than that. Apparently trekking companies were offering discount rates if the people got the insurance and then faked that they were sick to get evacuated. Basically a package where they take you up to basecamp, you take some selfies, and then they call the emergency whatever people to bring a helicopter up to take you back down. Plus the helicopters would take multiple people down but charge the insurance companies full price for each person. It's not just some "shitlords get tired of walking" scam it's also the trekking companies pulling the scam and getting kickbacks from the people overcharging. One article said that people were dying because the trekking company wouldn't call any rescue company that didn't also give them a commission.
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Cojawfee posted:One article said that people were dying because the trekking company wouldn't call any rescue company that didn't also give them a commission. Humans: Pure garbage.
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Cojawfee posted:It went further than that. Apparently trekking companies were offering discount rates if the people got the insurance and then faked that they were sick to get evacuated. Basically a package where they take you up to basecamp, you take some selfies, and then they call the emergency whatever people to bring a helicopter up to take you back down. Plus the helicopters would take multiple people down but charge the insurance companies full price for each person. It's not just some "shitlords get tired of walking" scam it's also the trekking companies pulling the scam and getting kickbacks from the people overcharging. One article said that people were dying because the trekking company wouldn't call any rescue company that didn't also give them a commission.  Holy poo poo they actually are pulling a more elaborate "jump in front of a car" scheme? Just nuke the mountain down to sea level already.
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You don't have to get rid of the mountain entirely, just make it shorter than K2.
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This might be interesting to those of you who watch that Alone show. This is Norwegian survivalist Lars Monsen spending several months completely alone while he travels across Canada. The subtitles are kind of rubbish, but they're better than nothing I suppose. Check out the whole series, this is just one of the most dramatic episodes when he's realizing that a bear is circling his main camp and won't go away. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6kWII7u5jQ
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Mar 20, 2021 19:45
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Everest really is like a Disney ride that you can kill yourself on. How is this fun or a challenge?
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I watched. “everest vr journey to the top of the world episode 3” last night on my quest. There is so much garbage all over that mountain. It’s amazing. All the camps are littered with cooking gas canisters and bags and so much other trash.
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I’m an Everest+ fast pass member. They even allowed me to go backstage and watch all the Sherpas rehearse before a parade.
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busalover posted:This one bit I liked: I swear there is a Calvin and Hobbes where he wants to be a hermit when he grows up but I cannot find it
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Uncle Enzo posted:I swear there is a Calvin and Hobbes where he wants to be a hermit when he grows up but I cannot find it 
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The season has begun, with many teams now at Base Camp, and Camps 1 and 2 being readied. Schedule for this week: Alan Arnette posted:This next week will see multiple teams make their first rotation to Camp 1 and 2. The usual schedule is to level early, as at 3 am for Camp 1, at 19,000′ taking five to eight hours. Arrive at C1 early around sunrise and settle in for a very hot day if there are no clouds. And apparently 3 Russian climbers are missing on Annapurna. Source: https://www.alanarnette.com/blog/2021/04/18/everest-2021-weekend-update-april-17/
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Meander posted:The season has begun, with many teams now at Base Camp, and Camps 1 and 2 being readied. itshappening.gif First summit on May 14 5 rich idiots 0 sherpas 63 covid cases at basecamp E: bonus prediction: One Trump flag/chud at basecamp, failure to summit. Outrail fucked around with this message at 15:42 on Apr 19, 2021 |
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I predict some rich jerk gets in to a brawl with at least one sherpa and the rich jerk gets his rear end handed to him and then complains about it on the news afterwards.
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Can one hypothetically be banned from the mountain? Or can you always go to the manager and get it rescinded
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Colonel Cancer posted:Can one hypothetically be banned from the mountain? Or can you always go to the manager and get it rescinded Permits are issued specifically to go beyond base camp, so banned from the mountain is the default state. The Nepalese authorities could not issue a permit or in more severe circumstances ban someone from the country it they thought someone was going to climb without a permit.
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I predict that at least one tech bro will do something disgraceful enough to make the news somewhere, and that at least one nice thing will be done by climbers that also makes the news. Also that at least one new and horrifying story about poop on the mountain will emerge.
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Colonel Cancer posted:Can one hypothetically be banned from the mountain? Or can you always go to the manager and get it rescinded Several people who've faked summiting have been banned from returning for several years.
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Azathoth posted:Permits are issued specifically to go beyond base camp, so banned from the mountain is the default state. I've been banned from Mount Everest!
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Random Stranger posted:I've been banned from Mount Everest!
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They just want to limit the amount of shitposting on the mountain, it's fine.
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Rainbow valley is Everest's Comedy Gas Chamber
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Colonel Cancer posted:Can one hypothetically be banned from the mountain? Or can you always go to the manager and get it rescinded Yeah. Well, they ban you from the country of Nepal. I don’t know what would happen if you showed up in Tibet. Comrade Koba posted:If you mean the insane polish guy who showed up without a permit and tried to summit with next to no gear other than a backpack full of vodka, that was on the south (Nepalese) side.
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Oh hey so I started watching ALONE with my wife thanks to this thread, and we’re enjoying it. I LOLed at how predictable it was that the cop in season 1 poo poo his pants and quit after one night. Season 3 has been a lot of fun, though, seeing the cool stuff that the contestants built. It’s not too surprising that after a couple of seasons the contestants have a better sense of how to last; then again Patagonia is so much less WET that it looks easier too.
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Where are you guys watching Alone? My girlfriend has Discovery+ and we watched/enjoyed the first season, even if it started to drag a bit towards the end, but it doesn't have Seasons 2-3 for some reason.
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Also just started on Alone. Hulu has 6 seasons of it.
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