Cojawfee posted:

The first guy to make one hosed up and then convinced everyone it was intentional and they just keep doing it because that's the way they've always done it.

Cojawfee posted:

What's that prong near the handle for?

Thumposaurus posted:

I get emails from pizza but for some reason despite having ordered from them last 10+ years ago.

I saw it so now you have to too.

This day in hut history

Cojawfee posted:

What's that prong near the handle for?

bird with big dick posted:

MrYenko posted:

Is that a loving Space Force KaBar?

Cojawfee posted:

What's that prong near the handle for?

Aardvark! posted:

bird show him the rest of the dirty rear end handle

bird with big dick posted:

gohuskies posted:

China is planning a "separation line" on the Everest summit in an effort to keep any people climbing up from Nepal from giving COVID to people climbing up from Tibet should they reach the summit at the same time: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-57053982

My response is: lol

DumbparameciuM posted:

gohuskies posted:

China is planning a "separation line" on the Everest summit in an effort to keep any people climbing up from Nepal from giving COVID to people climbing up from Tibet should they reach the summit at the same time: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-57053982

My response is: lol

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...Oxford University’s data tracking site shows a staggering 668% increase in confirmed Covid cases in the two weeks to 1 May...

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...nationally, 44% of all tests were positive...

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...There are fewer than 600 ventilators for the entire country...

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“One of the electrical crematoriums that is broken needs some Indian technicians,” a senior government official tells me.

“And we’ll soon run out of wood to cremate bodies.”

PittTheElder posted:

the Southeast route is easier than its ever been since the 2015 earthquake leveled out the Hilary Step.

Potrzebie posted:

But those final 86 centimeters are SUPER TECHNICAL!!!!!!

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Only 44 people have reached the summit of all 14 of the world’s 8,000-meter peaks, according to the people who chronicle such things.
Or, they now say, maybe no one has.

The difference rides on a timeless question getting a fresh look:
What Is a Summit?

Ed Viesturs believes he knows. He is one of the 44, the only American on the list. In 1993, climbing alone and without supplemental oxygen or ropes, Viesturs reached the “central summit” of Shishapangma, the world’s 14th-highest mountain. Most climbers turn around there, calling it good enough.

Before him was a narrow spine of about 100 meters, a knife-edge of corniced snow with drops to oblivion on both sides. At its end was the mountain’s true summit, a few meters higher in elevation than where he stood.

Too dangerous, Viesturs told himself. He retreated.

“You can let it go, or you can’t let it go,” Viesturs said. “And I was one of those guys where if the last nail in the deck hasn’t been hammered in, it’s not done.”

Eight years later, Viesturs climbed within reach of Shishapangma’s summit again. The ridge looked doable. With a leg on each side — “à cheval” in mountaineering, French for “on horseback” — he shimmied across it. He touched the highest point of Shishapangma and scooted back to relative safety.

There is a summit. And then there is everything below it.

Can close ever be good enough?

Revelations from a team of respected researchers have thrust that question into the open like never before, putting special attention on the world’s highest mountains and most acclaimed climbers.

By asking a simple-sounding question — What is the summit? — the researchers are raising doubts about past accomplishments and raising standards for future ones.

Maybe they are making us all reconsider just what it means to reach the top.

The Himalayan and the Karakoram ranges of Asia are home to all 14 of Earth’s 8,000-meter (26,247-foot) peaks — not only the highest mountains in the world, but with familiar names that evoke wonder: Everest, K2, Annapurna and Lhotse among them.

Thousands of miles away, in a small town in southwestern Germany, lives a 68-year-old man named Eberhard Jurgalski. He has a robust, white beard and pulls his hair into a ponytail.

He has spent 40 years chronicling the ascents of the 8,000-meter peaks. He has not climbed these mountains, but he is widely respected for compiling the records of those who have. He is among the cadre of behind-the-scenes researchers who give credence to the claims that make others famous.

He can tell you the names of various expeditions, the dates, the details of the routes and whether oxygen was used. He has studied photographs and videos and satellite coordinates and accounts from climbers and witnesses.

And now he has some jarring news: It is possible that no one has ever been on the true summit of all 14 of the 8,000-meter peaks.

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Jurgalski’s idea to reset the record book might inadvertently start a new competition. Who will be the first to definitely prove to have stood atop all the true summits?

PostNouveau posted:

I hope this leads to longer lines at Everest as now you have to wait in line to summit and wait in line on the summit to stand on the biggest rock fattest corpse there.

Timotheous Venture posted:

Clark Nova posted:

There’s gonna be a new one of those nearly every year, invalidating all previous records as the corpses get fatter and the pile grows higher

honda whisperer posted:

I kinda want to haul a step stool up there, set it up on the peak, climb on top and flip off everyone in line behind me, then throw it off the edge so nobody else can.

PostNouveau posted:

You have to jump at the top. Only the person with the highest vertical can say they have a true summit.

LanceHunter posted:

Apparently the NYTimes thirsts for the blood of rich idiots, and is practically goading them into racing for a dumb record...