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Alan Smithee posted:there would be literally nothing but green boots left It's a big pair of shoes to fill; someone's got to step up
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Boner M posted:Do you reckon rich people eat the Everest dead. This is such an apt post for your original Jeffrey Dahmer username
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Maybe we should start making paint from all the freeze dried bodies on Everest now that the supply of Mummy Brown has dried up.
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Desert Bus posted:Maybe we should start making paint from all the freeze dried bodies on Everest now that the supply of Mummy Brown has dried up. Better yet, repurpose all the poo poo and piss left behind that's threatening the ecosystem!
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a fresh coat of green boots green that lets mormons know you're the last house on the hill
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Bumping this up because Netflix just dropped a doc about a Nepalese dude trying to climb the 8,000ers all in seven months. Spoiler alert, Reinhold Messner is in it, and his hair is still magnificent.
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Drone_Fragger posted:The trick is to only pay your Sherpas on the way up. They have to go down too. Just follow them back down. When I climbed Kinabalu in the 80's one of the things we read about it was that during the yearly race, which in its early years was dominated by the Gurkhas, they discovered that beyond a certain point of fitness everybody went up at about the same pace. The Gurkhas won because they could descend twice as fast as anyone else.
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Nice Tuckpointing! posted:Spoiler alert, Reinhold Messner is in it, and his hair is still magnificent. Had to look him up. That's not hair, that is a glorious mane.
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Dirt Road Junglist posted:Had to look him up.  I'm not putting it in a thumbnail because it needs to be seen at full glory. Also his name does not match his nationality. (he's Italian).
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AFewBricksShy posted:
Well, South Tyrolean, which used to be part of Austria until the end of the war.
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Nice Tuckpointing! posted:Bumping this up because Netflix just dropped a doc about a Nepalese dude trying to climb the 8,000ers all in seven months. It's not just a Nepalese dude but motherfucking Nims! What a fun watch with gorgeous cinematography and great interviews from his family.
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Many, many years ago somebody posted a link to a .pdf or a website possibly affiliated with "Accidents in North American Mountaineering". There was a quote there that was shared that discussed how you should read accident reports with a sober awareness that a reasonable person was likely involved in the accident; meaning, that you shouldn't read and guffaw at what an idiot they were, but try your best to have some humility and imagine how you would have made the same mistake. Does this ring any bells?
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Mushroom Zingdom posted:Many, many years ago somebody posted a link to a .pdf or a website possibly affiliated with "Accidents in North American Mountaineering". There was a quote there that was shared that discussed how you should read accident reports with a sober awareness that a reasonable person was likely involved in the accident; meaning, that you shouldn't read and guffaw at what an idiot they were, but try your best to have some humility and imagine how you would have made the same mistake. Does this ring any bells? Accidents in North American Climbing? I bet that annual report is fascinating reading, but I'm not paying for it. Anybody know if the older legacy reports are free anywhere? 2014, 1995, I'm sure they're all interesting.
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Dead Nerve posted:It's not just a Nepalese dude but motherfucking Nims! What a fun watch with gorgeous cinematography and great interviews from his family. "Dude" is how I show affection for people that could kill me with their pinky.
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Nice Tuckpointing! posted:Bumping this up because Netflix just dropped a doc about a Nepalese dude trying to climb the 8,000ers all in seven months. Can't wait for the next guy to try to climb them all in 6 months.
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I'm the youngest white guy from Texas to climb all 8000ers in seven months while carrying a Futurama DVD boxed set.
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First south Asian lady from Canada to
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Found a sweet Everest hoodie at the thrift store so now I can some of that mountain stolen valor.
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Nice Tuckpointing! posted:"Dude" is how I show affection for people that could kill me with their pinky.  right on
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Mushroom Zingdom posted:Many, many years ago somebody posted a link to a .pdf or a website possibly affiliated with "Accidents in North American Mountaineering". There was a quote there that was shared that discussed how you should read accident reports with a sober awareness that a reasonable person was likely involved in the accident; meaning, that you shouldn't read and guffaw at what an idiot they were, but try your best to have some humility and imagine how you would have made the same mistake. Does this ring any bells? I don’t have that, but I do have this report about American caving accidents 2009–2010.
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Apparently cavers are incredibly ready to talk poo poo about spelunkers. Who knew! e: some good lmaos quote:Comments: Little information is available on this incident, but considering it was a 2 AM trip to a cave locally known as Stoner’s Den probably explains a lot. Anne Whateley fucked around with this message at 11:03 on Dec 3, 2021 |
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Anne Whateley posted:also some really heavy/awful stories obviously Yeah this includes the guy who died in Nutty Putty cave
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I found decent footage from the 'easy' route through nutty putty cave awhile back. Short version https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3EhsYmh9RM Playlist for the full trip linked https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-pKKq0Y1XA&list=PLQDyBNLrAJiNNUZmPglUpBw0vG24IXQ4_ I'm slightly more willing to try my odds at not freezing to death on an 8,000er than I am to doing that sort of caving.
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nomad2020 posted:I'm slightly more willing to try my odds at not freezing to death on an 8,000er than I am to doing that sort of caving. I'm exactly the same willing, which is zero. Zero willing, for either things.
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nomad2020 posted:I found decent footage from the 'easy' route through nutty putty cave awhile back. It’s funny cuz when I was growing up everyone went to Nutty Putty cave. I refused to go in cuz I was a wimp and it seemed terrifying to me as a kid. but it was very popular n the early 90s for teens and scouts.
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Mushroom Zingdom posted:Many, many years ago somebody posted a link to a .pdf or a website possibly affiliated with "Accidents in North American Mountaineering". There was a quote there that was shared that discussed how you should read accident reports with a sober awareness that a reasonable person was likely involved in the accident; meaning, that you shouldn't read and guffaw at what an idiot they were, but try your best to have some humility and imagine how you would have made the same mistake. Does this ring any bells?
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I've driven to the top of a mountain, they're not all unreasonable to go up.
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Imagine climbing an 8000 plus metre and dying. You’d have to be a freakin nooblord to manage that lmao
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Dik Hz posted:Reasonable people don't climb mountains, so I kinda disagree with the premise. Most mountains east of the Mississippi river are day trips at best.
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nomad2020 posted:Most mountains east of the Mississippi river are day trips at best. The largest is Mount Mitchell in NC, like 6800'. I hiked it in February, the was snow at the top but I was in shorts.
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Nocheez posted:The largest is Mount Mitchell in NC, like 6800'. I hiked it in February, the was snow at the top but I was in shorts. Mount Washington is 6288', and it kills people every year.
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Arsenic Lupin posted:Mount Washington is 6288', and it kills people every year. The waterfalls in the area are far more dangerous. Idiots die all the time ignoring trail boundaries and slipping on moss or water.
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Nocheez posted:The largest is Mount Mitchell in NC, like 6800'. I hiked it in February, the was snow at the top but I was in shorts. I went up the top of Mt Kosciusko in tshirt and shorts because they told us that it wouldn't be cold up there in summer.
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I climbed Fuji during the climbing season, but nobody told the weather that it was climbing season. Sideways rain, near freezing. Had to keep moving to stay warm. At the top, it was just me, one other dude, and the handful of people who run the one store/eatery still open. When the old gruff man who runs the place said, "This weather isn't going to get any better today. You should start heading down now," you listen to the gruff old man of the mountain. And that's my story. Honestly, I would love to attempt to climb an 8,000-er, but I can also think of many more things I would rather spend a year's training and salary on.
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shame on an IGA posted:lmao again that 4400' Ben Nevis stacks an average of three bodies every year
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Arsenic Lupin posted:Mount Washington is 6288', and it kills people every year. Last time I took the cog railway to the top of Mount Washington, there were dumbasses in t-shirts and shorts hanging around at the top freezing despite being warned that wasn’t a great idea. It’s like people look at the White Mountains and think they’re nothing compared to the Rockies, but then the wind sets in…
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