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I wonder if anybody has been murdered on Everest for their oxygen or something else. I am not entering the death pool because I don't really want anybody to die but if they do die I hope it's really funny like Canadian photoshop lady.
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origami posted:I wonder if anybody has been murdered on Everest for their oxygen or something else. A climber did die in part because someone stole their oxygen in the death zone, or so I've heard.
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# ? Feb 2, 2016 19:42 |
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PBS just did a Nova episode about quake that hit Everest last season. http://www.pbs.org/video/2365651521/
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# ? Feb 2, 2016 20:06 |
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Devonaut posted:I found a nice summary of 8k peaks and satellite images, courtesy of NASA: really good read, even if it's stuff you already know whoever wrote that deserves a medal
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Xibanya posted:A climber did die in part because someone stole their oxygen in the death zone, or so I've heard. Weren't people slashing ropes over on K2? Or was that just K2 being K2?
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# ? Feb 2, 2016 20:38 |
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Didn't Nepal ever follow through on their plan to cutback on the number of idiots killing themselves in pursuit of the perfect selfie? All I can find is proposals.
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# ? Feb 2, 2016 20:43 |
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I will climb Everest on meth
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# ? Feb 2, 2016 21:03 |
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I can't believe how excited I am about the Jeb campaign!
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# ? Feb 2, 2016 21:18 |
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I'll take 24 corpsicles this year, please.
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# ? Feb 2, 2016 22:14 |
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I'll take all 39 members of Menudo in their "Rockin' On Lhotse" world tour kickoff!
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# ? Feb 2, 2016 23:28 |
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origami posted:I wonder if anybody has been murdered on Everest for their oxygen or something else. Short answer is probably. I would recommend this book even if it was a bit sensationalist.
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# ? Feb 2, 2016 23:40 |
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EXTREME INSERTION posted:I will climb Everest on meth That just might work. 30. Bonus if someone is wearing LL Bean.
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# ? Feb 2, 2016 23:43 |
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Microwaves Mom posted:The best part is you could literally murder someone on everest and no one would be able to prove it unless they saw you, but obviously you'd kill any witnesses. NLJP posted:If you did it in the death zone you could do it and people would literally look blankly at you and keep going probably new life goals
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# ? Feb 3, 2016 00:21 |
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h3r0n posted:That just might work. Weren't some of the early attempts amphetamine fueled? I remember reading that in one of the prior threads, maybe?
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# ? Feb 3, 2016 00:29 |
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I'll take 34, one of the six numbers of Shaquille
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a messed up horse posted:I'll take 34, one of the six numbers of Shaquille That sounds really close to revealing the secret of Wu-Tang. Best check yoself qwik!
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# ? Feb 3, 2016 00:33 |
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I hope nobody does, but I'll take 28. Lots of frustrated rich folks had to cancel last year.
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# ? Feb 3, 2016 00:41 |
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pr0k posted:I'll take 24 corpsicles this year, please. if they die in a recoverable location and get a regular soil burial do they still count as corpsicles?
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# ? Feb 3, 2016 00:49 |
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Put me in for between 8 and 13 dead. I'm a ghoul for betting at all, but I'm a very indecisive ghoul.
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# ? Feb 3, 2016 01:06 |
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NaDy posted:who was trying to be the first American woman to climb Everest without supplemental oxygen what
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# ? Feb 3, 2016 01:31 |
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Prav posted:if they die in a recoverable location and get a regular soil burial do they still count as corpsicles? It still counts even if they are taken off the mountain and thaw and ooze out of the body bag when it's opened back home.
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# ? Feb 3, 2016 01:36 |
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Last year we allowed three goons per number
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# ? Feb 3, 2016 03:30 |
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Where's a list of all the death counts per year
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# ? Feb 3, 2016 03:47 |
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Pyrotoad posted:Weren't people slashing ropes over on K2? Or was that just K2 being K2? Would like more info on this, it sounds so incredible it has to be true. Philosopher King posted:Any chance the new everest movie will drum up more interest in climbing the mountain? The movie should show people that the sheer randomness of what the mountain decides to means that all the preparation you do can essentially before for naught. It should also show people that in trying to climb Everest you're essentially playing Russian Roulette as bad luck means you die. So yes, it will absolutely make more people want to climb the mountain because people are loving dumb.
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# ? Feb 3, 2016 03:50 |
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Everyone's going for the extreme it seems, I will pick 11 dead this year.
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# ? Feb 3, 2016 04:51 |
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Robo Reagan posted:what Yeah I know. Not as bad as Shriya Shah–Klorfine who was going to be "the FIRST South Asian woman from Canada to make the attempt to raise the Canadian flag at the top of the Mt. Everest". She dead. Also this from the previous thread courtesy of Rondette:
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# ? Feb 3, 2016 09:24 |
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One day I will take the Everest skytram to the top with my copy of Air Bud 2 and scoff at the Chinese nongs pissing on green boots
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# ? Feb 3, 2016 13:25 |
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Alan Smithee posted:Where's a list of all the death counts per year http://lmgtfy.com/?q=everest+death+count+by+year
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# ? Feb 3, 2016 13:34 |
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Don't you sass me boy
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# ? Feb 3, 2016 15:03 |
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why is annapurna so dangerous? I know that K2 has the bottleneck which results in most of the deaths
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# ? Feb 3, 2016 15:13 |
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Shitloads of avalanches
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# ? Feb 3, 2016 16:21 |
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Yeah I think the route that goes up the mountain has a tonne of seracs and things that can just break off any time without much warning. It's the unpredictability of it that causes the deaths. Speaking of Annapurna, I'm going to be doing the circuit in October and I can't loving wait. Gonna see these bastards up close without having to die (unless I get stuck in a blizzard like what happened in 2014 that is).
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# ? Feb 3, 2016 16:48 |
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Something like house-sized seracs or so I've read somewhere.
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# ? Feb 3, 2016 17:00 |
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I imagine dying on the mountain would be horrible. You are exhausted and dizzy, hands feet and face bulging with edema. No matter how hard you try, you can't catch your breath. The wind pelts you with ice, snow and the wrapper from a Clif bar the guy in front of you just ate. The feeling is gone, in your fingers, your toes. The loves of your life flash in front of your deadening eyes, but you don't have the strength to go back to them. You slip away knowing you will never see them again. You close your eyes one last time and faaaaaaaaaaaaaaart.
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HungryMedusa posted:I imagine dying on the mountain would be horrible. You are exhausted and dizzy, hands feet and face bulging with edema. No matter how hard you try, you can't catch your breath. The wind pelts you with ice, snow and the wrapper from a Clif bar the guy in front of you just ate. The feeling is gone, in your fingers, your toes. The loves of your life flash in front of your deadening eyes, but you don't have the strength to go back to them. You slip away knowing you will never see them again. You close your eyes one last time and faaaaaaaaaaaaaaart. i'd just die with my pecker out like that amber bug so there's a chance of somebody 99 million years in the future being owned by looking at my weird dick
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I'm feeling that 17 is the number. 17 violent expulsions of gas at death. There you have it.
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a messed up horse posted:i'd just die with my pecker out like that amber bug so there's a chance of somebody 99 million years in the future being owned by looking at my weird dick If you get enough people to do it, anthropologists in the future will think it was a ritual to climb tall mountains to die with your boner out.
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HungryMedusa posted:I imagine dying on the mountain would be horrible. You are exhausted and dizzy, hands feet and face bulging with edema. No matter how hard you try, you can't catch your breath. The wind pelts you with ice, snow and the wrapper from a Clif bar the guy in front of you just ate. The feeling is gone, in your fingers, your toes. The loves of your life flash in front of your deadening eyes, but you don't have the strength to go back to them. You slip away knowing you will never see them again. You close your eyes one last time and faaaaaaaaaaaaaaart. Nah, you're pretty out of it by the time death takes you and by all accounts it's pretty pleasant. You don't have much time to panic, you just pass gas on.
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Jose posted:why is annapurna so dangerous? I know that K2 has the bottleneck which results in most of the deaths I thought K2 was too lightly traveled to have significant bottlenecks, and the main reason for its lethality was the steep inclines resulting in increased avalanche risk and greater exposure to high winds. This is a genuine prod, I don't know why K2/Annapurna are more lethal, but I'm skeptical of bottlenecks.
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Amgard posted:I thought K2 was too lightly traveled to have significant bottlenecks, and the main reason for its lethality was the steep inclines resulting in increased avalanche risk and greater exposure to high winds. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bottleneck_(K2) Annapurna is dangerous because it's very technical and it's difficult to find a route that isn't avalanche prone (also weather).
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