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Y'all are thinking about it wrong. Instead of going through all the work of carrying a rock up the mountain, just huck the rock from the top off the side of the mountain. Boom. "Last person to ever summit Everest" record.
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Use explosives to make it shorter than K2.
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May 14, 2021 15:14
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Zero One posted:Use explosives to make it shorter than K2. This guy gets it.
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May 14, 2021 15:15
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Dik Hz posted:Y'all are thinking about it wrong. Instead of going through all the work of carrying a rock up the mountain, just huck the rock from the top off the side of the mountain. Boom. "Last person to ever summit Everest" record. Rock and ladder meta is outdated, sea level manipulation is where it's really at.
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May 14, 2021 15:17
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You should get points based on the altitude a gps receiver says. You have to hold it in your hand, so no placing it at the end of a stick and holding it up in the air.
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May 14, 2021 15:53
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CubicalSucrose posted:Rock and ladder meta is outdated, sea level manipulation is where it's really at. Drink a lot while ascending, quickly descend to sea level, raise it via urination?
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May 14, 2021 16:39
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Send basketball superstars to the mountains! Also IANAMC but I have a feeling that prodigious height is not an advantage in mountain climbing
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May 14, 2021 16:51
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Zero One posted:Use explosives to make it shorter than K2. While people are climbing. Random rocket strikes all over the mountain.
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May 14, 2021 17:04
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Zero One posted:Use explosives to make it shorter than K2. This really would warm my cold brittle heart
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May 14, 2021 17:05
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Colonel Cancer posted:Send basketball superstars to the mountains! install a vertical jump test at the summit
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May 14, 2021 17:16
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CubicalSucrose posted:Rock and ladder meta is outdated, sea level manipulation is where it's really at. Sea level rises from climate change are going to render every record unbeatable within the next 5-100 years in that case
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May 14, 2021 18:46
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a mysterious cloak posted:While people are climbing. Random rocket strikes all over the mountain. The Mount Hebron Challenge
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May 14, 2021 19:10
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The himalayas are rising at a rate of around 1cm a year, which is faster than the rate of sea level rise. However, the steeper they get, the faster erosion happens (that's just a mechanical fact of how water and wind erosion works) and I can't find a specific rate of erosion for the tallest peaks in the himalayas. It might well be enough to put uplift vs. sea level rise back in favor of the sea?
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May 14, 2021 19:23
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Sounds like China's stopping all ascents of Everest on their side.
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May 17, 2021 09:28
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Zero One posted:Use explosives to make it shorter than K2. KSR did it.
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Dik Hz posted:Y'all are thinking about it wrong. Instead of going through all the work of carrying a rock up the mountain, just huck the rock from the top off the side of the mountain. Boom. "Last person to ever summit Everest" record. This guy's way ahead of you https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cumbria-32053132 just not with a peak that matters.
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Budgie posted:This guy's way ahead of you https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cumbria-32053132 just not with a peak that matters. Is the stone he took part of a marker or monument, or just some random stone off the mountain?
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May 19, 2021 10:10
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this thread will like this article https://www.macleans.ca/longforms/layton-keddy-bicycle-australian-bush/
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May 22, 2021 17:34
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"I will find my limit!" <bones are found 70 years later> Mission accomplished.
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May 22, 2021 18:06
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I liked the part about the button man but the rest of it sucked because the biker lived
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May 22, 2021 18:37
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I hear laughter is the best medicine. Climbing guide says at least 100 virus cases on Everest quote:KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — An expert climbing guide said Saturday that a coronavirus outbreak on Mount Everest has infected at least 100 climbers and support staff, giving the first comprehensive estimate amid official Nepalese denials of a COVID-19 cluster on the world’s highest peak.
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The Walrus posted:this thread will like this article quote:Keddy broke his toothbrush in half. He cut the tags off his clothes. He removed the buckles from his backpack. He planned to carry as little weight as possible for this biking adventure quote:Then he packed his camera gear to film the trip. Finally, just before shutting off his phone and setting out from Marysville, he wrote a lengthy note and posted it on Instagram. 
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There's a documentary on Netflix about the two guys who did the Dawn Wall ascent, and holy poo poo it opens with a loving bananas story of one of them going to Kyrgystan with his girlfriend and getting kidnapped by rebels for a week and he has to loving shove one of the captors off a cliff so they could escape.
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PostNouveau posted:You have to jump at the top. Only the person with the highest vertical can say they have a true summit. has anyone ever built a human pyramid at the summit
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Chef Boyardeez Nuts posted:I hear laughter is the best medicine. Someone forgot to tell the virus that it doesn’t spread outdoors and isn’t a threat to the rich and healthy.
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it's spreading in tents ly.
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PostNouveau posted:There's a documentary on Netflix about the two guys who did the Dawn Wall ascent, and holy poo poo it opens with a loving bananas story of one of them going to Kyrgystan with his girlfriend and getting kidnapped by rebels for a week and he has to loving shove one of the captors off a cliff so they could escape. The guy he pushed over survived, and held no grudges what so ever
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djssniper posted:The guy he pushed over survived, and held no grudges what so ever Oh wow. He might have been the only militant to survive that expedition. 2 of the 4 got killed by the military, one of them wandered off in search of food and didn't return, one got thrown off a cliff
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not everest but similar vibe https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/may/24/china-ultramarathon-inquiry-launched-after-21-runners-die-in-cold-weather quote:China ultramarathon: inquiry launched after 21 runners die in cold weather
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May 24, 2021 22:17
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Holy poo poo lol
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May 24, 2021 22:20
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That's loving awful drat
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May 24, 2021 22:43
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they didn't have like, vans and poo poo following the runners???
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Similar thing happened in Europe a couple years ago. High altitude marathon, cold, death. Not that high of a bodycount though. RIP.
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poverty goat posted:not everest but similar vibe Sounds more like the organisers are to blame here, not so much the participants.
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We all won- by not going.
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hawowanlawow posted:they didn't have like, vans and poo poo following the runners??? They mention parts where they were on small stone/dirt trails in the mountains so I don't imagine that was possible
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hawowanlawow posted:they didn't have like, vans and poo poo following the runners??? Trail ultras can't generally have that kind of support. Instead, at least in Europe, the list of required gear is sufficient to enable you to survive freak weather incidents. On long trail runs off the grid it is not unheard of to include (as required gear) a tent and sleeping bag for example. With the expressed purpose of allowing you to survive for a day or two alone. Then again, if runners more or less blew off the mountain I'm not sure any reasonable gear would have helped. Maybe don't have the track be that dangerous?
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21 dead jfc. Almost beggars belief how that could be possible. I've never even heard of a death toll like that for an ultramarathon, even those desert ones where inevitably some people peg it from heat exhaustion.
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Just looking at the satellite maps of the place and it's looks like there's hardly a tree to stand under for 40+ miles in any direction. Yellow River Hoodoo National Geopark 黄河石林国家地质公园 in that area looks like an amazing place to visit.
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