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https://share.garmin.com/PakistanOnK2 If you're curious, one of the teams is <300m from the summit at this time.
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shame on an IGA posted:When you command the rip tide to stop but she still succin *gets on PA* "SEA NUT!!!"
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orange juche posted:https://share.garmin.com/PakistanOnK2 I hope the Sherpas get down safely.
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Aug 20, 2021 14:46
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Alan Smithee posted:*gets on PA* this was worth the wait
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Aug 20, 2021 15:02
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They found the two dead veteran climbers around the bottleneck on K2 supposedly coming back from summitting and it's like so many lives could be saved with one of those slides you ride down on a burlap sack.
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Aug 20, 2021 15:42
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Why not done?
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Aug 20, 2021 16:05
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Or just zip lines. I mean COME ON.
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NC Wyeth Death Cult posted:They found the two dead veteran climbers around the bottleneck on K2 supposedly coming back from summitting and it's like so many lives could be saved with one of those slides you ride down on a burlap sack. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZRqeRRik8c
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Doesn't even do any tricks!
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Apollodorus posted:Or just zip lines. I mean COME ON. The avengers of goon undertakings Grover Haus at the bottom Doobies dog Haus at the top. A zip line between them 4 balls at the edge of the summit
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Aug 21, 2021 05:21
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PostNouveau posted:Doesn't even do any tricks! I think the trick was to not die. Counterpoint to that is Marco Siffredi, the first snowboarder to fail to shred Everest twice https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ikB81IJ9y4 Apollodorus posted:Or just zip lines. I mean COME ON. imagine some dude punking the poo poo out of a bunch of experienced mountaineers by bragging about surviving the goon zipline off the mountains and then they all have to go back and redo the mountain now
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Aug 21, 2021 14:06
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Anne Frank Funk posted:Why not done? Probably because there's a vertical slope traverse you need to not fly off over on your magical carpet ride to certain death.
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Sounds like you’re against people claiming first person to burlap sack off of Chogori.
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Aug 22, 2021 15:12
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ewe2 posted:Probably because there's a vertical slope traverse you need to not fly off over on your magical carpet ride to certain death. It's cool, the slides have raised sides. You have to leave a little danger.
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Aug 22, 2021 15:35
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Anne Frank Funk posted:Why not done? Those lazy Sherpas refusing to die by the dozens to install it
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Aug 22, 2021 15:38
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Yes, it's like a lava lamp.
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Sounds like the owner of these sherpas needs a stern talking to
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Aug 22, 2021 16:29
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Anne Frank Funk posted:Sounds like the owner of these sherpas needs a stern talking to Thats the mountaineering spirit right there!
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Aug 22, 2021 18:44
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Anne Frank Funk posted:Sounds like the owner of these sherpas needs a stern talking to
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Aug 22, 2021 22:31
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Somebody said I just need to tip them  but I hardly think they deserve that much
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NC Wyeth Death Cult posted:They found the two dead veteran climbers around the bottleneck on K2 supposedly coming back from summitting and it's like so many lives could be saved with one of those slides you ride down on a burlap sack. Why not just use a wingsuit
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Why not just not die? I mean really
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if I was a billionaire I'd pay the Sherpas to add an extra metre to the summit. Then retire them all on fat pensions if they agree to refuse all assistance to non sherpas
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One way visas and climbing trail for summiteers. They get their photo op, and then step into the wingsuit, and now it's leg two of the New World's Most Dangerous Games!
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I would wonder if the thin air would make the glide slope of a wingsuit so bad as to be unfeasible. There was that one dude that parachuted off though which seemed like a pro move
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Aug 23, 2021 03:04
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Goinf downstairs sucks. Going down a mountain sucks more. All the dudes who died near the top had it right.
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Aug 23, 2021 03:53
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Yeah even on non-idiotic mountains to climb going down feels way more dangerous
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Carlos Lantana posted:if I was a billionaire I'd pay the Sherpas to add an extra metre to the summit. Etna is now like 100ft taller than two years ago due to the constant eruptions, so I think you're on to something here.
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Pure speculation, but I'm curious what you all think. Let's say an earthquake or a crazed poster from this forum knocks off enough of the summit to put it below K2 in height. How much do you think climbing would decline there?
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PittTheElder posted:I would wonder if the thin air would make the glide slope of a wingsuit so bad as to be unfeasible. There was that one dude that parachuted off though which seemed like a pro move For planes, air density doesn’t much affect glide slope. It’s numerically equivalent to the ratio of lift:drag, and pressure affects them in the same proportion. Your true speed at altitude is higher than at sea level, but you hold the same slope. If anything is an edge case, though, it’s wingsuits.
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Well I am not good at lift math but it's the ability to gain speed that I think fucks that logic up for glide craft in general right? I'm sure if you strapped a jet engine it'd work though, get to work rich boys! Although poo poo I guess the jet stream is right there if you play your cards right...
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If you’re in a plane, at the moment the engine quits, you demonstrably had enough airspeed to fly. Now you pitch down to trade altitude for forward motion and maintain flight. The wingsuit starts with no airspeed and has to build it in freefall. Thin air means you have to build more speed to start flying and you’ll need a greater vertical fall to do that. Once you do get going, though, you should be able to hold the same slope all the way down. You don’t fall like a brick indefinitely, just to get started. Winsuits have awful glide ratios in any case, granted.
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Mr. Funny Pants posted:Pure speculation, but I'm curious what you all think. Let's say an earthquake or a crazed poster from this forum knocks off enough of the summit to put it below K2 in height. How much do you think climbing would decline there? Gotta knock off nearly 850 feet to get it there. That's a hell of an earthquake\explosion. It would probably also grind climbing to a halt as the infrastructure to support climbers would have to be ramped up. K2 is even more remote than Everest is
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doesn't part of the physics of the wingsuit involve proximity to the ground?
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Empty Sandwich posted:doesn't part of the physics of the wingsuit involve proximity to the ground? Not really, no. All the wingsuit videos show dudes really close to the ground because it is awesome, but to get to the point where you can do that you have to start by practicing very far from the ground. EDIT: Here are some people practicing in essentially skydiving conditions. http://www.adventurerocket.com/preparing-for-base-season-wingsuit-coaching-with-jarno/
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George H.W. oval office posted:Gotta knock off nearly 850 feet to get it there. That's a hell of an earthquake\explosion. dramatization  i know it's a thousand miles away
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Platystemon posted:If you’re in a plane, at the moment the engine quits, you demonstrably had enough airspeed to fly. Now you pitch down to trade altitude for forward motion and maintain flight. That's what jetpacks are for, duh
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Anne Frank Funk posted:dramatization The mountains watch...
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So we agree- much less dangerous to hire these guys. They'll knock it out in a few days and sherpas can be hired to run it. Everyone toss in $5. We'll make our investment back in one season.
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someone should attempt to dive off a high altitude balloon in the stratosphere and parachute to the top of Everest and then snowboard down it maybe even using the chute as an airbrake/traversal tool, or forget the chute, just cut it away and alpine that bitch all the way down, maybe wing suit across crevasses if necessary and just really send it
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