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AceRimmer posted:Is it Nebraska that has nearly identical rest stops separated by long stretches of highway? Real Twilight Zone time loop poo poo according to a friend. Kansas is worse. At least Nebraska's prairie rolls. Kansas is just... Kansas. For eight hours.
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AceRimmer posted:Is it Nebraska that has nearly identical rest stops separated by long stretches of highway? Real Twilight Zone time loop poo poo according to a friend. Yep. I-80's a loving blast.
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Oct 12, 2015 04:52
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As the saying goes: Texas sucks and Kansas blows and that's why it's windy in Oklahoma.
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Oracle posted:Kansas is worse. At least Nebraska's prairie rolls. Kansas is just... Kansas. For eight hours. I don't get this Kansas hate. Wyoming or New Mexico or Arizona all have way worse stretches of highway than i70 through Kansas. Is it because of the tolls?
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Oct 12, 2015 06:00
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They interviewed Green Boots's family.BBC posted:As though napping, the climber lies on his side under the protective shadow of an overhanging rock. He has pulled his red fleece up around his face, hiding it from view, and wrapped his arms firmly around his torso to ward off the biting wind and cold. His legs stretch into the path, forcing passers-by to gingerly step over his neon green climbing boots.  Also a feature on other dead Everest climbers. http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20151008-the-graveyard-in-the-clouds-everests-200-dead-bodies Looks like Green Boots may have been properly laid to rest.
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Oct 12, 2015 20:33
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Good read, thanks for the link.
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Oct 13, 2015 01:04
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Has anyone here driven from Spokane to Washington? I've driven the entirety of Nebraska and Iowa together a dozen plus times (Iowa still has a 65mph limit on the loving freeway) and the two of them one after the other depending on which way youre going is still infinitely better than the shithole which is mid-eastern Washington. Edit: Southern Indiana/Illinois is pretty bad too.
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Oct 13, 2015 04:17
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even though it's buzzfeed give it a read: http://www.buzzfeed.com/vaibhiarora/conquering-mount-everest-everything-you-need-to-k-1vr47
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Oct 13, 2015 13:55
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elwood posted:even though it's buzzfeed give it a read: Jesus Christ, is that a translation or something?
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Oct 13, 2015 15:21
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Once you get into it, it's not so bad. The first few paragraphs were tricky to get through.
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Oct 13, 2015 16:43
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I don't know. Oklahoma has churches at their gas stations.
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ZombieLenin posted:Oklahoma has churches at their gas stations.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MwuPmg68mKU The Epic of Everest was restored by the British Film Institute in 2013 and is now available on BBC iPlayer (for UK Goons at least). It's a documentary film made by a crew who accompanied the 1924 Mallory/Irvine expedition. A lot of it is focused on telephoto lense shots featuring many of Mallory/Irvine's last steps on Everest, has some great footage of the mountain and the local area but the film does falter a bit with old timey Imperialism for the way it talks of the locals ("they haven't bathed their entire lives!").
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Germstore posted:I have to drive over 8 hours to get to the nearest beach. Cliff Racer posted:Incorrect, Kansas is much worse to drive through. Plus the other one looks to take you past the surprisingly amazing Corn Palace. AceRimmer posted:Is it Nebraska that has nearly identical rest stops separated by long stretches of highway? Real Twilight Zone time loop poo poo according to a friend.
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Bad Angus! Bad!
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Delivery McGee posted:If a person in El Paso (the western point of Texas) wants to drive to the beach, they go to San Diego, California rather than Galveston, TX -- it's a 10-hour drive to the Pacific coast, and 11 to the Gulf coast of Texas. the extra hour drive would be worth it for the warm water imo
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The green and brown poo poo water that is the gulf coast is not
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Port Aransas isn't too bad.
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Jose posted:the extra hour drive would be worth it for the warm water imo What are you talking about!? The water I Southern California is perfect. Not warm enough to feed tropical storms, and not too cold to not be able to comfortably swim in. Plus it has waves if you're into wave sports like surfing. Last time I was on the gulf coast I wouldn't have referred to the swells as "surf." Delivery McGee posted:If a person in El Paso (the western point of Texas) wants to drive to the beach, they go to San Diego, California rather than Galveston, TX -- it's a 10-hour drive to the Pacific coast, and 11 to the Gulf coast of Texas. And if you're like most San Diegans who have live in inland San Diego county, you're lucky if you see the beach more than once a year. ZombieLenin fucked around with this message at 23:03 on Nov 7, 2015 |
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BisonDollah posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MwuPmg68mKU I tried to watch this again the other night when it was on - it's silent with eerie music playing in the background the whole time. I made it to them starting the climb this time before falling asleep (it's always on Very late for some reason) - Well worth a look though, and I plan to watch the 2nd half with strong coffee on hand shortly !
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I mean, you know people are thinking this sort of thing, but drat. Leave it to an American to be the poster-child for Sherpa racism. http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/11/14/race-row-on-mount-everest-sherpas-square-off-against-racist-western-climbers.html quote:When it was confirmed that Sherpa strike action had curtailed the climbing season, he was back on camera—this time comparing the mountain guides to Islamic terrorists.
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Mr. Funny Pants posted:I mean, you know people are thinking this sort of thing, but drat. Leave it to an American to be the poster-child for Sherpa racism. quote:Without the Sherpa mountain guides, who are drawn from an ethnic group based high in the Himalayas, there is no way the Westerners could reach the top. It’s the Sherpas who set up the ropes and fixing points, as well as carry their tents, their oxygen tanks, their food and their toilets. Everest 2015: there is no way the Westerners could reach the top.
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I was laughing at that as well. Remember, some experienced westerners tried to go up on their own a few years ago and the Sherpas wouldn't have it.
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quote:“There’s no way you can talk to their owners?” he asked Brice, apparently confusing the ethnic Sherpa employees with slaves or some form of property. Please, take that man up the mountain. And then leave him there.
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quote:“In the Everest movie, I’m thinking who put those ropes in? Who put the ladders across the icefall? Who put up those tents they’re climbing into? Who carried the oxygen? Who carried the food they’re now eating? The Sherpas do that work and that is never shown,” Peedom said. “The Sherpas did a huge amount of work on that expedition and they were heavily involved in the rescue. There were also Sherpas killed so I think it’s yet another example of them being left out of the story.” I think this nailed exactly what I hated about that movie. They were trying to make out they were some sort of heroes for doing it, but it is nothing that hasn't been done before, and particularly embarrassing was the total lack of the Sherpa people. The only heroes in the film were those dudes piloting the helicopter who risked their life to rescue some rich Texan. I was really disappointed in that film. I think the only mountaineering movie that works is 'Touching the Void' and that is more like a documentary.
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Cliff Racer posted:I was laughing at that as well. Remember, some experienced westerners tried to go up on their own a few years ago and the Sherpas wouldn't have it. To be fair, the quote was talking about a specific group of Westerners in that particular season, not "Westerners" as a group. With a strike, those particular individuals would indeed be SOL
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The Everest movie didn't actually have any Sherpas? jfc Even Titanic remembered there were grimy dudes belowdecks shovelling coal into the furnaces
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Skellybones posted:The Everest movie didn't actually have any Sherpas? jfc Yeah I think it did. It's been a month or two since I saw it, but I swear there was some rivalry or something between a couple of Sherpa dudes on each team.
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Skellybones posted:The Everest movie didn't actually have any Sherpas? jfc To be honest, I fell asleep an hour or so in. This film I had been waiting for for the best part of a year, about a thing I am obsessed with (I mean I've been the OP of these threads for the last couple of years ffs), and I fell asleep. I fell asleep. There are 5 Sherpas in the film according to IMDB, three of which are uncredited. So. Yeah. Rondette fucked around with this message at 15:13 on Nov 16, 2015 |
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Is there at least a scene where the Sherpa short ropes Sandy Hill Pittman and drags her up the mountain?
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Sand Monster posted:Is there at least a scene where the Sherpa short ropes Sandy Hill Pittman and drags her up the mountain? Yep.
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Boinks posted:Yep. drat I must have slept through that bit.
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It was a blink and you missed it moment. I think two Sherpas had speaking parts, but they were bit parts if that.
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I want to visit everest and start a climber tradition of rubbing Green Boot's boots for good luck on the way up.
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red_leg posted:I want to visit everest and start a climber tradition of rubbing Green Boot's boots for good luck on the way up. I think he's been moved.
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Sex Hobbit posted:I think he's been moved. Or did he...move himself?!
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Cruel and Unusual posted:http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20151008-the-graveyard-in-the-clouds-everests-200-dead-bodies I liked this infographic 
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So Sherpas die everywhere, but climbers tend to die at either the bottom or the top.
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etalian posted:I liked this infographic Just out of curiosity, does anyone know what the areas correlate to? The deaths at the top I understand, thats the death zone, but what about that cluster near the middle, is that the ice falls? If anyone could help me match up the data I would appreciate it.
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Baumann posted:Just out of curiosity, does anyone know what the areas correlate to? The deaths at the top I understand, thats the death zone, but what about that cluster near the middle, is that the ice falls? If anyone could help me match up the data I would appreciate it. Between Base Camp and Camp I is the icefall, between Camp I and Camp IV is the Western Cwm. Deaths there are mostly due to avalanches hitting the valley and the rare crevice opening up. Also people probably die during decent in that area or are  and get cerebral edema before they even make the summit push. So basically just a mashup of everything that makes Everest dangerous.
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Baumann posted:Just out of curiosity, does anyone know what the areas correlate to? The deaths at the top I understand, thats the death zone, but what about that cluster near the middle, is that the ice falls? If anyone could help me match up the data I would appreciate it. Guessing a lot of the Camp II to III deaths are also people just falling off the Lhotse face?
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