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You know, I do want some treasure
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Mar 23, 2023 04:27
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orange juche posted:This is cool as gently caress and its not that odd, we're all waiting on climbing season for rich idiots to Darwin themselves out of existence trying to climb a mountain. I need to see them getting into batsuits at the top and jumping off. Land safely down at base camp and receive a lovely prize.
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Mar 23, 2023 04:45
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Xlorp posted:I need to see them getting into batsuits at the top and jumping off. FTFY.
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Mar 23, 2023 07:34
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Getoutnow posted:Anyone posted this yet? This man is a hero. He even lied to his wife and didnt say he loved her the last time he saw her
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Mar 23, 2023 09:09
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Comrade Koba posted:FTFY. Either version seems fun to watch imo
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Mar 23, 2023 20:57
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Nobody's managed it yet. I'm hoping every special big boy is 100% sure they'll be the main character and not a Carousel reenactor.
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Mar 23, 2023 22:08
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Xlorp posted:Carousel reenactor. do what now
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Mar 23, 2023 23:46
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I think a lot about that guy from one of the seasons of 'Everest-rest-rest-rest' who was filmed sitting on the mountain and talking about how nothing, nothing in his life is more important than his children. Wondering if he could hear himself.
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Mar 24, 2023 00:17
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Achmed Jones posted:do what now https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4M2vx_RCwSs
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Mar 24, 2023 00:23
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Warning: C-note Up in This Cenote!!!
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loving HELL, I haven't seen that scene since I was a kid, and the main thing I remember about it was Basil Expositions shouting into a walkie talkie, I assumed he was talking to the floaters, encouraging them to.... go higher?? Since that's what the rest of the crowd seemed to be doing. Turns out he was just getting a work call.
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Mar 24, 2023 04:20
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 All the 5s are in the bottom of this cave, are you a bad enough dude to rescue them?
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Mar 24, 2023 09:52
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gently caress I should have read the sign properly
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Wasn't there a dude who tried to ski down from Everest or something e: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ViFmRQx66Xg yup, even made it to the bottom, without dying! (several people from his team did die though) orange juche fucked around with this message at 10:06 on Mar 24, 2023 |
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Mar 24, 2023 10:00
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orange juche posted:Wasn't there a dude who tried to ski down from Everest or something It's a popular extreme ski and snowboard target. Miura was a pioneer but others have gotten 'better' descents in; Karnicar's 2000 summit to base camp run is notable. Snowboarders have also tried it, Siffredi got the first full-ish descent but he wasn't satisfied with the route he took so the next year he went back to try for a narrow 500 m long couloir off the summit, where he disappeared in bad weather. The video released of certain runs isn't even cool, they just side slip down because obviously if they take a fall they're dead.
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Ohtori Akio posted:It's a popular extreme ski and snowboard target. Miura was a pioneer but others have gotten 'better' descents in; Karnicar's 2000 summit to base camp run is notable. what color were his boots
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Was siffredi the one who was told it was a bad idea and then said "gently caress you, old man" and then was never seen again?
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Cojawfee posted:Was siffredi the one who was told it was a bad idea and then said "gently caress you, old man" and then was never seen again? said the serpas warned him not to but what do those dumb villagers know
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Cojawfee posted:Was siffredi the one who was told it was a bad idea and then said "gently caress you, old man" and then was never seen again? Yeah. Personally I suspect his brain was cooked from altitude and exertion. Guy tried to do this all in September so there would be enough snow in the couloir then seems to have been surprised by how rough Everest is to climb in September.
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This is the best thread title on SA
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Cojawfee posted:Was siffredi the one who was told it was a bad idea and then said "gently caress you, old man" and then was never seen again? He's the guy who made that unofficial Tarzan movie and then got sued by Edgar Rice Burroughs' estate.
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knox_harrington posted:This is the best thread title on SA my one posting W. big fan of your video work at the biennale btw
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Alan Smithee posted:Warning: C-note Up in This Cenote!!! This is apparently the precise degree of silly pun to make my afternoon, so thank you.
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Every day we come closer and closer to being able to zipline from the top of Everest to the top of K2quote:Some 200 protesters gathered beneath Rio de Janeiro’s world-famous Sugarloaf Mountain to protest the ongoing construction of ziplines aimed at boosting tourism, alleging it will cause unacceptable impacts.
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Switchback posted:This story has come up in this thread before. It’s a classic. You can watch the dive video on YouTube, narrated by Don. I don’t know why I’m so fascinated by these stories, but boy am I. The video of Yuri Lipski on an uncontrolled descent into the Blue Hole in Dahab, Egypt is another cautionary tale. The worst story I heard was this dude who was cave diving and he went off the beaten path (I think his friends tried pulling him back multiple times but one time he got away when they weren't looking, but that could be a different equally dumb guy) and managed to go through the hard-to-find opening to an undiscovered/unmarked section part then got lost. His friends had to contact the police and they spent a long time search for him/his body but never found him. What ended up happening is that part of the cave had an air pocket and a sandbar a ways in, and he surfaced there but didn't have nearly enough air to get back. He sat there in the dark and starved to death over the course of a few weeks, I believe they found his body during construction a while afterwards with a note to his family written in the sand.
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NC Wyeth Death Cult posted:Every day we come closer and closer to being able to zipline from the top of Everest to the top of K2 Glad to see zipline goon still getting work
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zipline goon should be contracted to make deathtraps for rich tourists
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Remember any ziplines/escalators/elevators going up and down Everest should be Yeti complaint. So like that carrying 300-600 Kg weight roughly per yeti. Going to add a little bit of construction cost, but we need to be inclusive about these sort of things.
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dr_rat posted:Remember any ziplines/escalators/elevators going up and down Everest should be Yeti complaint. So like that carrying 300-600 Kg weight roughly per yeti. The marketing partnership with Yeti brand coolers pretty much writes itself.
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*fade in* Yeti is chilling on the mountain in a lawn chair and opens up a Tei cooler. There's human heads inside and it decides to grab a cold one *Yeti logo*
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BAGS FLY AT NOON posted:The marketing partnership with Yeti brand coolers pretty much writes itself. And I mean there is a lot of room for ads on the side of a 68km long escalator. 136km of ads to be exact!
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Tumble posted:The worst story I heard was this dude who was cave diving and he went off the beaten path (I think his friends tried pulling him back multiple times but one time he got away when they weren't looking, but that could be a different equally dumb guy) and managed to go through the hard-to-find opening to an undiscovered/unmarked section part then got lost. His friends had to contact the police and they spent a long time search for him/his body but never found him. There's another similar story but it ends with the guy stabbing himself in the chest with his dive knife instead of drowning. Was totally worth it to see some silty rocks though https://www.acsh.org/news/2022/12/01/underwater-suicide-mysterious-case-diver-who-stabbed-himself-16701 It might be fake
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I forget who recommended "into the silence" but this book is great. In a oh no ww1 way. But thanks.
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This is probably a dumb question, but I think I read years ago ITT someone saying (and I'm paraphrasing here) that Everest and mountains nearly its height are "like God teasing you, because they're literally just-barely climbable." Is there any truth to that? Is there a theoretical height threshold at which a mountain becomes literally unclimbable, excluding the obvious like it sticking out of the atmosphere entirely? Are there any peaks that are actually unclimbable for different reasons? Or is human ingenuity to find novel ways to kill ourselves just that good?
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"the atmosphere" isn't a thing that is there at x feet and suddenly gone at x+1 feet. it gets thinner. everest is already "sticking out of the atmosphere" for certain values of "the atmosphere." there's not going to be a hard line, but yes, there exists some point at which no human could get up and back. you can push that point higher by allowing supplemental oxygen and various other technologies like pressure suits. and of course things will change over time (if nothing else, that point gets higher the more people are trying, because somebody's gonna be the genetic lottery winner that can do it without oxygen or whatever). and you can do the same thing with depth, tbh.
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Achmed Jones posted:"the atmosphere" isn't a thing that is there at x feet and suddenly gone at x+1 feet. it gets thinner. everest is already "sticking out of the atmosphere" for certain values of "the atmosphere." Right, I sorta knew this and I'm articulating it wrong, but I guess I just meant 'like, a lot more.' You're right about it being more of a gradient than a hard line. I guess what I'm asking is more; is Everest's altitude anywhere close to the physical limit where you just can't even breathe at all, and are there other factors that would make a mountain theoretically unclimbable?
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An easy benchmark is the death zone - At about 8000m (out of a total 8950m) you enter the death zone, which you can realistically survive being in for maybe 24 hours. You can get in and out of that zone in less time on Everest, but too much taller and you wouldn't be able to. Also, I'd guess that time frame drops the deathier you go into the death zone. Supplemental oxygen would help with that, but you can only take so much.
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Someone is going to build a custom lightweight pressurized spacesuit and start breaking records, and then all the rich assholes will start buying them. The difficulty will be batteries but that's what poorly paid sherpas are for.
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I wonder if anyone has tried weaving thin, flexible solar panels into their outerwear to charge small batteries to heat the inside of their suits. For that matter I wonder if any of that is even possible or practical yet.
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