Smiling Mandrill posted:

Its always fun trying to explain how dangerous hypothermia is to someone with no outdoor experience.

One time me and a friend were out in the middle of nowhere in December like five miles from the nearest road. The days were still unusually warm but at night it was getting down to like 7 degrees. Anyway we were just getting set up for the night when a guy walks into our camp. He was soaking wet from trying to fish in a near by creek, and apparently falling in. He had stayed out later than he expected so he decided that he'd rather camp than walk back to his car. He ask if we would mind if he camps beside us, we say no.

We watch as the guy pulls out a tarp and ties it between two trees. Then he says "I suppose this will do for the night." We stare at him for a second, and I'm like "Dude do you have a sleeping bag, and dry clothes?" The guy tells us he doesn't have anything but his tarp fishing pool and pack which had his lunch, water, and fishing poo poo. He tells us he should be fine sleeping out in the elements for one night. My friend says "You do know its going to get down to single didgets tonight?" The guy says he is aware but one night in the cold is no big deal, and hes going to hike out at first light. I then inform him that without dry clothes, or a bag there is a good chance he'll be dead before first light. Long story short we spend like an hour convincing this guy he needs to get back to his car and go home. Finally we just broke camp, and hiked back with him to make sure he went.

FrozenVent posted:

Do you also believe Christmas gift comes from an overweight Canadian man who sneaks into your house at night?

Picnic Princess posted:

I take personal offence to Bitcoin being promoted on a mountain.

Take your flag and shove it up your rear end.

nerdz posted:

How hilarious would it be if the bitcoin guy can't even manage to get to the base camp

Default Settings posted:

Found this in the china.jpg thread: The shadow of K2

Wasabi the J posted:

There are several routes, but most of them are considered suicidal.

Here's a brief overview.


That wouldn't do anything but make it even more unstable. It's loving massive and it's ice not just snow.

polpotpotpotpotpot posted:

Yeah, seriously.

The Sherpas can pretty much gently caress off, in as much they are simply part of the massive expeditions, that no, don't own the mountain. They might own the mountain when it comes to the people they handhold all the way up, sure, but other competent, self-sufficient people that just happen to be on the same mountain? Yeah, not really.

Eikre posted:

Last I checked, the Napoleonic wars were fought over pastoral European heartlands, not windswept hellscapes of asphixia and freezing death. A dude getting disease after you feed him a diet of hardtack is still the causality of war, not an environment which is anathema to life itself.

fuctifino posted:

benzine posted:

Edit: Removed video, it was from other year.

GUISSEPPE PIZZAPIE posted:

So you think safaris gone wrong are hilarious too?

Bip Roberts posted:

Like when lions and elephants eat the safari dudes. Ummm, that's like classic comedy?

monster on a stick posted:

You know that was Alaska and not the safari, and that guy was actually trying to do some good about bears not being the great evil that must be destroyed instead of trying to shoot them?

monster on a stick posted:

You did watch Grizzly Man right? The movie where 80% is the footage he shot because Werner Herzog thought it was good?

unpacked robinhood posted:

Tons of tweets shorten earthquake into just quake, it confuses me with thoughts of pixellated avalanches and nin music

Oh Long Johnson posted:

Actually it's insanely bad and full of weird obsessive posters just like all the other megathreads

MorgaineDax posted:

https://instagram.com/p/13WNquxFl-/

He posted this picture yesterday.

bucksmash posted:

All jokes aside, hopefully they can rescue those who can still be rescued.

Pvt Dancer posted:

Video showing the avalanche, not sure if it's cut or happens that sudden

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPD8IE_Qc4A

Demonachizer posted:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1488

Choose another one instead history buff and Something Awful poster "AnxietyMan 14 words Heil Hitler"

keevo posted:

Don't think this video has been posted yet:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JC_wIWUC2U

FordPRefectLL posted:

lol what the gently caress do you even do

Nuclear Pogostick posted:

Anyone wanna one-up me?

Madcosby posted:

whats the gbs opposition to steck?

spite house posted:

I've wanted to trek the Annapurna Sanctuary since forever, but it looks like Kathmandu being all hosed up will seriously impede tourism for awhile. Which sucks a lot from a spoiled-arrogant-first-up-against-the-wall Westerner perspective, but is also a drat shame because of how much revenue they'll lose when they need it most. loving bummer.

Seriously though, if you want to gawk at the Himalayas and do some high-altitude hiking (and puking) the Annapurna Sanctuary is where it's at. Look.

Xaris posted:

Well that's HDRd and time-lapsed to poo poo. I mean some of the Sierras are cool in the spring when there is snow still but mostly melted with flora blooming, but it often looks like this which still is nice but kind of blurs together in a mix of pine trees, granite and dying shrubbery.

I guess Kings Canyon/Sequoia is cool in the winter too

Dely Apple posted:

Those aren't the Sierra Nevadas, there's water and snow

I Greyhound posted:

Almost certainly trying to do something similarly stupid as this:
https://youtu.be/TWfph3iNC-k?t=1m14s

There's flying, and then there's flying in a way that a gust of wind or 2 milliseconds of error in leg positioning kills you.