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Levitate posted:More posts about cool mountaineering please Touching The Void is a bonkers crazy awesome documentary and is on Netflix (last time I checked). If you don't already know the story, don't spoil yourself.
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Syncopated posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1tBf455jXE Have An Ice Day is a short video featuring House and one of his climbing partners doing ice/mixed cragging, but the production values are super high. Really cool. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aowLg3iumwY
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May 31, 2017 04:36
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Levitate posted:I wonder if he tells Yosemite he's going to do it without ropes when he gets a permit for it (I assume you need a permit to climb) and if they actually OK'd it You need a permit to sleep in Yosemite, but no permits required to climb.
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Jun 6, 2017 04:31
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Leperflesh posted:His natural abilities probably revolve around being very even-tempered, able to focus for long periods, high degrees of eye-hand and body coordination, and of course, physical fitness and strength. I don't know if having no fear of heights is a natural ability or a developed skill. If he can also pass academic classes, he could probably be an actual astronaut. Or an olympic athlete. Or maybe he could do underwater welding, or operate a crane doing skyscraper construction. He could be a stunt pilot, maybe? There's countless careers and endeavors that those abilities could apply to and which aren't nearly as dangerous and/or have some greater benefit to society. Yes, if only Alex Honnold had a safe job like astronaut or stunt pilot.
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Jun 11, 2017 04:54
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Pierogi posted:Well, this turned out to be a royal gently caress up thanks to the biggest dumbass this side of the death zone. Alan Arnette has more details http://www.alanarnette.com/blog/2018/01/26/disaster-developing-on-nanga-part-k2-team-to-launch-rescue/
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Jan 26, 2018 20:53
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Doctor Malaver posted:Climbing K2 requires a permit, whether you're coming from the Pakistan side or the Chinese side. So why did they get permits to climb in these conditions? Or is it like pay once and use it whenever? So it’s the government’s job to decide who’s safe and who isn’t? That’s completely contradictory to the spirit of climbing. These guys are as qualified as just about anyone ever will be to climb K2 in winter, they deserved the chance.
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Jan 28, 2018 03:54
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Wasabi the J posted:People think I'm crazy for carrying a small pack with more water than I need, a few lighters, first aid kit, whistle, and a flashlight with fresh batteries on my day hikes. I would agree that you're crazy for carrying a flashlight instead of an actually useful headlamp.
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Oct 1, 2018 04:16
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Haifisch posted:Maybe he got confused and thought there was a bonus for being the first person to concern troll this Everest season. Somebody needs to start a pool on how many people will troll this thread this year.
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Feb 4, 2019 23:40
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RedMagus posted:What is the climbing conditions of Everest these days? They've had an earthquake and a huge amount of melt last I remember, are any of the normal routes still usable? It's still winter, most summits happen in May so you'll see teams for the spring push show up in early May.
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Mar 1, 2019 04:37
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Sand Monster posted:Boukreev also wrote his own book trying to defend against Krakauer's criticisms, and the two got into a public argument at some kind of event at one point. He was also one of the guides that was on the team who were essentially dragging Sandy Hill Pittman up the mountain in the most glaring example of the commercialization of Everest which was a side story for the expedition. I can't remember if he wast the one who actually short-roped her, or if it was a Sherpa, but either way Krakauer was making some efforts to point out a lot of what he felt were that team's mistakes and which Boukreev wanted to protect himself from. The Krakauer-Boukreev feud was also played up by marketing and publishers who knew that it'd sell more books. Into Thin Air was a huge hit of course and the publishers of The Climb knew that they could sell more copies by presenting the Boukreev book as a counter-argument to the more popular one. Boukreev died right around the time it came out anyways so the publishers were able to spin it however they wanted pretty much without his actual input.
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Jun 17, 2019 19:21
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Mr. Funny Pants posted:drat, the guy who was doing it solo with no oxygen made it past 7000 meters and turned back. That takes some serious discipline and smarts. He also said from the start that he didn't expect to climb the mountain this winter - his whole plan was to scout the route and maybe he'd get lucky but probably plan to come back next year and go for it for real that time.
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Platystemon posted:Aren’t there already terrible hygiene problems on Everest? Temperatures at Everest base camp go from about freezing at night to 60 degrees F in the day during the climbing months of April/May so it's not really very cold
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