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It's not mountaineering like most of this thread, but I'm linking this article mainly for the following quote: “I’d also ripped my leggings when I fell and I was like: ‘Please don’t put my bum on the telly’ – my mum would’ve killed me.” https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/feb/04/woman-rescued-from-welsh-mountain-after-fall-while-scattering-fathers-ashes
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A Welsh mountain? A terrifying drop of 5, maybe even 6 metres in some parts
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i know people can gently caress up on british peaks, but it doesn't make them less pathetic. that one is not even 1000 meters. dramatic landscape is not britain's strong point edit: i just realized that ten thousand pages ago i made this same point but better. sorry thread. i'm gonna punish myself now. i'm not going to tell you how, but it would gross you out, and that's a promise Deep Glove Bruno fucked around with this message at 09:34 on Feb 5, 2024 |
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Feb 5, 2024 09:21
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Deep Glove Bruno posted:i know people can gently caress up on british peaks, but it doesn't make them less pathetic. I know, I'm just joking around. I fell out of a kayak yesterday in 3 metres of water and realised how easy it would be to just drown right there beside the dock if one more thing went wrong.
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Chrpno posted:I know, I'm just joking around. I fell out of a kayak yesterday in 3 metres of water and realised how easy it would be to just drown right there beside the dock if one more thing went wrong. Yeah I mean "immobilizing back pain from straining to take a poo poo" is probably up there on the goon medical problems scale and I'm not a bad-aece myself, but it is funny the rep british peaks get in britain and then you look 'em up and it's like "this one is a staggering 700 meters!"
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Feb 5, 2024 10:40
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yes, but consider: she ripped her leggings and her bum was cold and vulnerable
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*chooses "piece of cake" difficulty in duke nukem 3d* *never makes it far enough to "shake em baby"*
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Outrail posted:Wanna see someone XC down Everest As a cross country skiier, I appreciate this post very much because basically, I ski on gear very close to this.
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Deep Glove Bruno posted:Yeah I mean "immobilizing back pain from straining to take a poo poo" is probably up there on the goon medical problems scale and I'm not a bad-aece myself, but it is funny the rep british peaks get in britain and then you look 'em up and it's like "this one is a staggering 700 meters!" tbf it's generally exactly because they're 1000m peaks that people then decide that it's a  idea to go up in shorts and converse with zero plan for what happens if the weather changes on a completely exposed route over a 300ft rock face, rather than just laying down to die on Pen y Fan because you ran out of granola barsbut yeah, Snowdon literally has a gift shop at the top
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Feb 5, 2024 19:51
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you can find a deadly cliff to fall off of at the beach, the elevation isn't necessarily what kills you if you just fall off of something this lady was evidently slightly incautious at a point where there's a steep bit and that's a normal thing people do all over the place and not really a mountaineering thing specifically
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Planet X posted:As a cross country skiier, I appreciate this post very much because basically, I ski on gear very close to this.   Same. XC skiing is such a hilariously stupid sport.
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Feb 5, 2024 22:57
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im glad this lady who tore her undies was ok, even if it was a small peak, or she was unprepared, or she was english. poo poo happens & nobody's perfect
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Feb 5, 2024 22:59
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Don't put my bum on the telly is so British it's like I'm living there again.
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Feb 5, 2024 23:04
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There is literally a Goon who fell off a mountain and survived. I will not tell their story but I suspect they have some empathy for the Brit bum lady.
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beware! Gammon Yeti
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A friend went for a winter hike in leggings and was not prepared for stupid icy conditions and basically slid on her rear end down a frozen trail and tore the poo poo out of her leggings and rear end. Everyone agreed it was great.
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Empty Sandwich posted:another NYT article about climbing. That was fascinating, and disturbing to say nothing of frustratingly unfinished. Did Cooper and Johnson go nuts and attack each other? Why those specific injuries, it doesn't make much sense. Is there some weird rare Andean monster that attacks the faces of stragglers? Maybe not, but I don't entirely buy the story of the survivors either: does the story of Johnson against the story they brought back of a girl giving up with "don't make me suffer just let me die" ring true to you? A woman who'd climbed many high peaks over 10k feet? The story of Cooper's ice-pick "accident" also smelt bad to me, it's very difficult to fall on an ice-pick that hard and the shape of the wound didn't match. What made that hole? Too many questions that can never be answered.
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hot cocoa on the couch posted:ive noticed rock climbing also seems that way (outdoor sport and boulder, not necessarily alpine style or indoor competition styles). i think it probably has something to do with the long time required to develop the ligamenture and connective tissue associated with absolute finger strength + endurance, as contrasted with the relatively quick development of skeletal muscle as someone who switched from powerlifting to rock climbing after lumbar pain that just wouldnt go away, i think it's also easier on your body that a lot of strength sports (as long as you don't tear a finger tendon.) finger strength generally comes from muscles in the forearms and hands which you can develop just like any other muscle group
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ELTON JOHN posted:as someone who switched from powerlifting to rock climbing after lumbar pain that just wouldnt go away, i think it's also easier on your body that a lot of strength sports (as long as you don't tear a finger tendon.) finger strength generally comes from muscles in the forearms and hands which you can develop just like any other muscle group Although last time I took my daughter climbing at a gym I hopped on an easy boulder route and gassed immediately since I am like 40 lbs heavier than when I climbed
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B-Rock452 posted:I'm the opposite in that I switched from climbing to powerlifting/strongman and that fixed my back pain. Although going into strongman with crazy grip strength has been awesome. the weird thing is that i found i had good hold strength from powerlifting, but the pinch grip (which as you know is way more important in climbing) was definitely underdeveloped. a wooden hang board fixed that tho i miss the barbell sometimes and still try to work in some deadlifts and light squats when i can but also climbing rocks is a lot of fun
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if you love the rocks so much why dont you marry them
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FullLeatherJacket posted:tbf it's generally exactly because they're 1000m peaks that people then decide that it's a there's also shops in the alps! i don't really get peoples boners for elevation, a 500m scramble is harder than a 2500m scenic drive.
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Deep Glove Bruno posted:i know people can gently caress up on british peaks, but it doesn't make them less pathetic. that one is not even 1000 meters. dramatic landscape is not britain's strong point lol do you think that something has to be over 1000m to be dramatic?
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Feb 8, 2024 10:49
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bigger number = more dangerous and more beautiful obviously
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AARD VARKMAN posted:bigger number = more dangerous and more beautiful obviously and thats just simple math
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Cactus Ghost posted:if you love the rocks so much why dont you marry them I would, but my understanding is that this angers the mountain.
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Feb 8, 2024 14:57
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Help my dicks frozen solid in everussy
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She let you summit because you're super rich, she let me summit because I'm goofy
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hemale in pain posted:there's also shops in the alps! i don't really get peoples boners for elevation, a 500m scramble is harder than a 2500m scenic drive. The terrain just gets way more dramatic once you get up past 2000m elevation (at least here in the Rockies). Obviously you needn't climb all that way but the views at 2800m are something else.
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Yes, it's like a lava lamp.
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hot cocoa on the couch posted:and thats just simple math This is why we have excel tables
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AARD VARKMAN posted:bigger number = more dangerous and more beautiful obviously When you get into negative numbers that's when things start to get super safe and dull. The bottom of the Mariana Trench is pretty much the safest dullest place on earth. If you try to climb there you will get a bit wet though, so pack a good rain jacket or something.
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Deep Glove Bruno posted:dramatic landscape is not britain's strong point Hmm.       
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Leperflesh posted:Hmm. I mean the deforestation of the whole island hundreds of years ago legit helped the sightlines.
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yeah that kid got the last tree too lol rekt
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AARD VARKMAN posted:bigger number = more dangerous and more beautiful obviously Works for the 8000s.
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FullLeatherJacket posted:tbf it's generally exactly because they're 1000m peaks that people then decide that it's a Pen y Fan's where some soldier recruits got marched to death in the sun a few years back. Granted it was more the heat, weight of their gear and crushing British indifference to suffering, but underestimating the difficulty of Pen y Fan in those conditions probably didn't help matters. You can fall and break a bone from a single step. I think I drove past them going up actually, remember seeing a bunch of lads in military gear in that area right before it happened.
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i mean, you can drown yourself with a half-full canteen too, but that doesn't mean taking a drink is freediving
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Wales has some awesome hikes and you can definitely get in trouble easily if you're not careful. It's no surprise that a lot of Everest climbers train there. I hiked up Snowdon via Crib Goch ridge a few years ago and it was awesome. I'd love to do more ridge walks now like the Aonach Eagach and Cuillin Ridge. This is a pic I took of Crib Goch after having walked it.  (On the one day of the year there was pure sun lol)
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Leperflesh posted:Hmm. So Britain’s best sights are Tuesday in actually pretty countries is what you’re telling us
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