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i was thinking like maybe some big balloons that the sherpas could jump on at base camp and there are a system of tubes that the air pushes you up the mountain and also it's fresh air so you can go to the top even if you are an asain canadian nub
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Better yet do a balloon space jump like that redbull guy from a few years ago, but then also have a snowboard and do sick grinds down the line of hundreds of rich idiots
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Chard posted:Better yet do a balloon space jump like that redbull guy from a few years ago, but then also have a snowboard and do sick grinds down the line of hundreds of rich idiots I'm going to do an 720 indy nose grab off a dead Russian dude
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Sanctum posted:The way they stay tactful and maintain a tone of respect just makes the whole trainwreck-in-motion more damning as it reaches the conclusion.  I think I need to work on that
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Jan 13, 2015 05:29
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reverse GIS successfully matches this to a bunch of landfills
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this guy snowboarded everest. it went very well; he is now famous for having done so
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qne I DID IT GUYS I REACHED THE TOP
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Sanctum posted:I think we get a free pass on that one. You think we're over-critical of her now that she's dead, you should see the poo poo we slung before she died. That woman was not prepared to climb Everest. That she chose Lake Louise as the backdrop for several of her Photoshop mountain climbs still gets me. It is literally wheelchair accessible. Every year, dozens more quadriplegics can get their picture taken where she had to Photoshop herself and legitimately claim to have more mountain climbing experience than she did when she decided to climb Everest.
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SaltLick posted:Trash and poo poo. It is the frozen Ganges Corpses too.
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Please tell me this isn't real 
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Axetrain posted:I want to feel bad about that lady but she was just so dumb. Everyone tried to tell her this was stupid even on the ascent ,the professional climbers were like "Lady you have no oxygen left if you keep going you are seriously going to die!" , "My dreams will see me through this hardship" -Everest deathtoll +1 I started digging into everything I could find about her, and the absolute biggest red flag, besides her training for 6 months by climbing the gym's rock wall and jogging around with a 20lb weighted vest, was her choice of gear. Mountaineers will swear their lives by their preferred brand of gear, and she listed in her "wishlist" generic types. I think someone also mentioned that several of the pieces of the gear she said she was taking were of mediocre quality or just plain wrong for Everest. She also went through 7 bottles of oxygen just to make the ascent, when most people use 2-3. By the time she popped the 5th bottle the sherpas should've refused to let her go further and made her go back down.
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This was posted in the tail end of the last thread and it's an amazing read. It's about the last dive of David Shaw, when he attempted to recover the body of Deon Dreyer from a 800+ foot deep underwater cave. http://www.outsideonline.com/adventure-travel/africa/south-africa/Raising-the-Dead.html
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Hefty Leftist fucked around with this message at 06:43 on Jan 13, 2015 |
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enziarro posted:this guy snowboarded everest. it went very well; he is now famous for having done so The TV series about the Army guys I posted in the OP has a bit about a couple of lads that visit their camp who were going to ski down from the summit. only one made it back down Goddamn.
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Her last words: "Save me". The last thing she heard: "Lol".
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Internet Kraken posted:Please tell me this isn't real It's not, but the poo poo and trash problem is serious. The good news is that some efforts are being made to mitigate it: http://www.nbcnews.com/science/environment/nepal-enlists-mt-everest-climbers-clean-trash-strewn-slopes-n44276 ...a lot of those people might've died in the avalanche last year though, so...
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Also, requesting the thread title be changed to "Big Rock Corpsey Mountain" or "She Just Googled a Picture of Mt. Everest."
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Why is that Canadian lady having a sleep on Everest? Everest is not a good place for a sleep. Too cold for a start. Plus that duvet she has doesn't look very thick.
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jag420 posted:Why is that Canadian lady having a sleep on Everest? the mighty canadian maple warms her as she happily dreams of all the other mountains she will climb in photoshop
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you beautiful bastard
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Ursine Asylum posted:One of the first google results is still the facebook page. I thought it was a joke thing until I looked at the dates... 
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Parts Kit posted:This was posted in the tail end of the last thread and it's an amazing read. It's about the last dive of David Shaw, when he attempted to recover the body of Deon Dreyer from a 800+ foot deep underwater cave. Someone explain more about deep caving (besides on my mom, lol) that sounds potentially even more dangerous and terrifying.
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So basically someone will take money from people as heinously unfit as me and try to get me up the mountain. I know people talk about mountain madness and altitude sickness, but one really common theme I see when these documentaries roll around is that people just can't turn back, or even worse, they reach the top and stay there too long. How the gently caress do these guides not just say "If you don't turn around now, you will die and your corpse will become an internet meme"? Like get to the top, take a few photos, set a timer, do something, whatever. On that note, gently caress K2. If mountain climbing was a vidya game, K2 would be the boss that you defeat, only for it to come back to life and kill you as you walk away. My worst nightmare consists of being on the summit of K2 and the panic of knowing I have to get down.
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They do tell them that they need to turn back/have been up too long and more often than not the climbers go "gently caress you heh I paid $100,000 to climb this loving mountain I'm gonna savor it and besides bad things happen to other people, not me, I will obviously be fine" and then they turn into a gaudy nylon-covered ice mummy for us to laugh at.
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Axetrain posted:Someone explain more about deep caving (besides on my mom, lol) that sounds potentially even more dangerous and terrifying. 
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hailthefish posted:They do tell them that they need to turn back/have been up too long and more often than not the climbers go "gently caress you heh I paid $100,000 to climb this loving mountain I'm gonna savor it and besides bad things happen to other people, not me, I will obviously be fine" and then they turn into a gaudy nylon-covered ice mummy for us to laugh at. Certain top tier travel agencies have someone on site who can refuse to let someone go past base camp 4 if they don't think the person is capable of it. The travel agency the Canadian lady went with seemed to be the "discount" option. cave diving http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/father-son-cave-divers-died-running-air-underwater-report-article-1.1726810 quote:
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Oh. My. God. Axetrain posted:Someone explain more about deep caving (besides on my mom, lol) that sounds potentially even more dangerous and terrifying.
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It's going to be funny when Green Boots' cave gets too full and they have to stack frozen corpses in there like firewood until it looks like a Monty Python cartoon
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Cave diving is like climbing mount everest except upside down. Makes you think.
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pentyne posted:Certain top tier travel agencies have someone on site who can refuse to let someone go past base camp 4 if they don't think the person is capable of it. The travel agency the Canadian lady went with seemed to be the "discount" option. Yeah, Russell Brice (known as "Big Boss" by the Sherpas) who runs Himalayan Adventures will refuse people to climb if he thinks they are not up to it. The dude basically runs Everest and has (had? Not sure if that has changed) no fatalities on his expeditions. His company is like the Bentley of Everest. They are heavily featured in the 'Beyond the limit' tv series.
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Butt Wizard posted:How the gently caress do these guides not just say "If you don't turn around now, you will die and your corpse will become an internet meme"? Like get to the top, take a few photos, set a timer, do something, whatever. In the case of photoshop lady, her guide straight up did say she was going to die if she went up the mountain. Multiple times in fact. First, he refused to summit with her because he thought she would get herself and others killed. Then he dumped her in the hands of two inexperienced sherpas so he wouldn't have to deal with her. Later he ran into her on the way to the summit, saw she didn't have nearly enough oxygen to climb, and told her in no uncertain terms she was about get herself killed. She still didn't listen and well you know how that ended. I don't really know what you're supposed to do about a person who refuses to turn back once your in the death zone, where its a struggle just to keep yourself alive. The obvious solution is to not let dumb people on the mountain in the first place but they need the 
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That just makes me want to go there much harder. I have no diving experience, but what the hell.
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Internet Kraken posted:In the case of photoshop lady, her guide straight up did say she was going to die if she went up the mountain. Multiple times in fact. First, he refused to summit with her because he thought she would get herself and others killed. Then he dumped her in the hands of two inexperienced sherpas so he wouldn't have to deal with her. Later he ran into her on the way to the summit, saw she didn't have nearly enough oxygen to climb, and told her in no uncertain terms she was about get herself killed. She still didn't listen and well you know how that ended.
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midnightclimax posted:That just makes me want to go there much harder. I have no diving experience, but what the hell. I bet there's like a whole chest of pirate gold at the back of the cave, that sign is just trying to trick us.
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Ape Has Killed Ape posted:I bet there's like a whole chest of pirate gold at the back of the cave, that sign is just trying to trick us.
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In stark contrast to the yellow suited retard, here's Steve McKinney who hangglided (hangglid?) off of Everest: Wikipedia Documentary
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mookface posted:The Canadian lady's story is hilarious. sheet, havent seen this one before Tujague posted:It's going to be funny when Green Boots' cave gets too full and they have to stack frozen corpses in there like firewood until it looks like a Monty Python cartoon theres 2 in there right? Kakarot fucked around with this message at 10:47 on Jan 13, 2015 |
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