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A family friend who has sadly passed a few years ago used to work as a volunteer for mountain rescue up in Donner Pass area throughout the 90s and early 00s. There's a couple of ski resorts up there, Sugar Bowl and Boreal being the most well-known. Throughout the winter they'd be out most weekends and a decent number of weekdays. Most of the time it doesn't make the news because they find the lost skiers within a few hours or the lost people find their way back etc. But it was a neverending quest to rescue people in search of fresh powder from their own stupidity. I think one factor is that most (?) ski resorts don't have like, a fence around the whole resort, above the snow, where you can unequivocally pass a border that your brain says "oh now I'm just in the wilderness and no longer at a curated staffed holiday resort" so they resort to a lot of signage that nobody reads to try and get through to people. Plus people intentionally go around or past markers to "just ski in a bit of powder" and assume that they can easily get back to the slope, that it'll be easy to see the chairlift from far away, that the weather is clear right now so it'll probably be clear in an hour or two, it'll still be light out at 5pm in midwinter, and various other misconceptions.
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There you go now no one else needs to go there https://twitter.com/historyinmemes/status/1752947424870519163
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PostNouveau posted:There you go now no one else needs to go there Ugh, that camera is terrible. I'm gonna have to go there in person to actually see what I'm looking at there.
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Zarin posted:Ugh, that camera is terrible. Pretty sure it's a couple of people on top of a pretty tall hill OP.
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Apollodorus posted:See this is why I never did downhill skiing. When the best resort near you has the word “kill” in its name there’s no incentive to try it. XC can be chill but skiing when a race team is practicing is hell. The high school kids are maniacs.
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dr_rat posted:Pretty sure it's a couple of people on top of a pretty tall hill OP. climbing to the top of a tall hill ftw
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dr_rat posted:Pretty sure it's a couple of people on top of a pretty tall hill OP. What are mountains, if not simply tall hills? What are hills, if not simply short mountains? If the productive capacity of all of humanity that concerned themselves with this sort of over classification had instead been put to use creating a camera without the terrible fisheye lens in that Tweet, we could have had an actually useful video showcasing whatever the gently caress they were trying to get at. Instead, we got a Tweet that was just actual garbage. But I suppose I repeat myself. Alas.
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The fourth highest point in Denmark is called Himmelbjerget, literally Sky Mountain. It reaches to amazing 147 metres asl. Not a sight for the faint hearted!
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Zarin posted:What are mountains, if not simply tall hills? it's a 360 degree video, you're meant to look at it in a vr headset where you wouldn't see any of the fisheye effect. i think it's cool tbh
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I like the fisheye effect, it makes me want to jump off the mountain and
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Zarin posted:What are mountains, if not simply tall hills? Mountains are the ones that are rocky on top. Hills are the ones with trees and grasses at the top.
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Yes, it's like a lava lamp.
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Chief McHeath posted:big rear end latina teen chased by lesbian loving TREX at basecamp then hosed Well that's a strong bid for new thread title.
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Chief McHeath posted:big rear end latina teen chased by lesbian loving TREX at basecamp then hosed lmao
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Chief McHeath posted:big rear end latina teen chased by lesbian loving TREX at basecamp then hosed Lmao
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PittTheElder posted:Mountains are the ones that are rocky on top. Hills are the ones with trees and grasses at the top. Marvel at this majestic mountain! 
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Chief McHeath posted:big rear end latina teen chased by lesbian loving TREX at basecamp then hosed
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 These are all mountains. Sulitjelma is 1908 meters tall and has barren top. There are mountains where the tree line and vegetation goes way, way higher than that. To muddle things further, climate change is slowly lifting tree lines higher and higher. Some of the lowest barren top mountains will eventually become completely covered by forest, which is unfortunate to their unique ecosystems.
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All previous Everest records nullified because now you have to climb the tree on the summit to really have ascended it.
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Chief McHeath posted:big rear end latina teen chased by lesbian loving TREX at basecamp then hosed
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PostNouveau posted:All previous Everest records nullified because now you have to climb the tree on the summit to really have ascended it. It's really cold up there, right? So if - through a series of elaborate Rube Goldberg-esque contraptions - we could shoot a jet of water at the summit, it would freeze . . . right? I wonder how much height could be added in pure ice each year . . .
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Zarin posted:It's really cold up there, right? Just require each visitor to pee on the summit.
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wheatpuppy posted:Just require each visitor to pee on the summit. Mikael Niemi's novel Popular Music from Vittulanjänkä starts with the teller reaching the summit of a mountain where there is a metal plaque telling that this is the summit of the mountain. There he gets a sudden urge to bow down and touch it with his tongue, and unsurprisingly, gets stuck. He realizes he's going to die there, and starts going through his childhood memories. At the end, he unzips and pees on his tongue to get loose.
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I'm reading Jon Krakauer's Into Thin Air and it's making me NOT want to climb Everest. All of the people in this book were stupid before ascending and then hypoxia made them literal idiot babies and they all died from making insane decisions.
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Zarin posted:It's really cold up there, right? It snows on the summit all year, the maximum accumulation of ice is reached annually and it's not a lot. Ice does not have a lot of shear strength and it is a very, very steep drop off from a very small summit.
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smoobles posted:I'm reading Jon Krakauer's Into Thin Air and it's making me NOT want to climb Everest. All of the people in this book were stupid before ascending and then hypoxia made them literal idiot babies and they all died from making insane decisions. Read high crimes some time it is very descriptive about that.
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K2: Life and Death on the World's Most Dangerous Mountain is still my favorite climbing book i think
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ethanol posted:K2: Life and Death on the World's Most Dangerous Mountain is still my favorite climbing book i think That’s a great one I think my favorite is always Minus 148.
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smoobles posted:I'm reading Jon Krakauer's Into Thin Air and it's making me NOT want to climb Everest. All of the people in this book were stupid before ascending and then hypoxia made them literal idiot babies and they all died from making insane decisions. everything he's written is good. i read into the wild in college and it definitely left an impression
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If we're doing book recommendations, I liked "Buried in the Sky: The Extraordinary Story of the Sherpa Climbers on K2's Deadliest Day" by Peter Zuckerman. It's about the 2008 K2 disaster where 11 people died (not all at the same time, it's almost like a hosed up Benny Hill sequence). And, like it says in the title, it does focus mostly on the Sherpa and High Altitude Porters, which is a POV that gets overlooked a lot and is really worth learning more about.
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Cactus Ghost posted:everything he's written is good. i read into the wild in college and it definitely left an impression Under the Banner of Heaven is excellent as well, if you haven't checked it out
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gschmidl posted:Source is sadly the Daily Heil, but what is wrong with these people? Pfft, come back when we've had the first birth on Everest
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McSpanky posted:Pfft, come back when we've had the first birth on Everest Please, first conception
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Nenonen posted:Please, first conception This angers the mountain. Supposedly. I haven't tried it myself. Yet.
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Cactus Ghost posted:everything he's written is good. i read into the wild in college and it definitely left an impression All his books are about idiot babies
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Bip Roberts posted:All his books are about idiot babies yeah if you're the type of weirdo who gets steaming mad about choices some stranger made two decades ago he is exactly the wrong author for you
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Nenonen posted:Please, first conception The father deposits his seed on the peak in some virgin snow. Next season, mom comes along with a hand warmer and a turkey baster. Bing, bong, first baby conceived on everest
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