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K2 is the (insane) climbers' mountain; Everest is the tourist's mountain. The technical parts of Everest are mostly done for you by the Sherpas. It's going to be really interesting this year to see how many permits China and Tibet sell. A slight increase over last year.
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Cruel and Unusual posted:Yo people, the Nepalese government is allegedly putting restrictions in place so only highly qualified rich people will die on the mountain. I'd bet the under. Avalanches don't discriminate between the just and the unjust.
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Feb 1, 2016 00:41
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Microwaves Mom posted:Man people talk about getting away with murder saying there's no perfect murder but getting someone a trip to everest and trying to kill them on it? THat sounds like the perfect murder to me. 1 the mountain my kill them. 2 any attempt to screw them will probably result in their murder. Check out the book or movie The Eiger Sanction.
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Feb 4, 2016 03:50
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Artemis J Brassnuts posted:How on earth do you get food poisoning when you're in sub-zero temperatures? Bad processing practices give you a can full of botulinus toxin. Still happens occasionally. Other than that, Fred Smith is shedding (say) norovirus. The norovirus stays warm and happy on his hands. He makes supper, or passes you his water bottle. Whammo.
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Mar 3, 2016 03:19
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Thirty people are ill with frostbite and/or altitude sickness. Rob Gropel, widower of Dr. Maria Strydom, is injured and making the descent.quote:The couple were attempting to reach seven summits, and had already reached the peaks of Denali in Alaska, Aconcagua in Argentina, Ararat in Turkey and Kilimanjaro in Tanzania.
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May 22, 2016 19:29
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quote:it sure beats the hell out of joining the almost 40 million people who die of noncommunicable diseases every year. Everest prevents cancer, news at 11.
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May 25, 2016 15:37
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I think the person who coined the gimmick of the Seven Summits has a lot to answer for. It's a marketing collection of things that are not very much like each other.
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Jun 1, 2016 03:41
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LastCaress posted:Sorry, didn't die in the mountains. Took some nice pictures, there's a reason to go to these places, they're beautiful. Gorgeous picture. Is that red bit in the middle the blood of the unworthy?
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Sep 1, 2016 18:19
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Those are glorious photographs. Thank you for sharing them. (Is photography your hobby/profession when you aren't surrounded by frozen poo poo?)
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Nov 1, 2016 16:32
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Thank you, Elwood and Aphex, for those pictures. They made a couch-sitter like me understand why you'd hike in the Himalayas.
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Nov 30, 2016 07:32
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One dead, one missing.quote:An American climber has died near the summit of Mount Everest and an Indian climber is missing after heading down from the mountain following a successful ascent, expedition organizers said on Sunday.
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May 21, 2017 18:10
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Five so far, including one missing and presumed dead.
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May 22, 2017 03:43
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simplefish posted:No it's 5 with 1 missing, so 5 excluding the missing one. The missing one would make it six. Huh. I counted the named people in the linked article and only came up with 4.
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May 22, 2017 16:05
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Nepalese climbers say Hillary Step still there, just snow-covered
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May 23, 2017 17:12
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Maluco Marinero posted:Sure is, reminds me of some of a bad Sydney to Hobart (1998). It's a yacht race which used to have stunningly low safety standards for its competitors, such that many crew just didn't know how to operate a life raft, so when poo poo got real they'd make a ton of baffling errors that ultimately resulted in loss of life.
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May 30, 2017 02:14
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Maluco Marinero posted:edit: as an aside I don't believe any of these men or women sailing deserve to die, or don't have legit grievances at the quality of their liferafts or whatever, however deaths at sea almost never have singular 'freak' causes, they're created through a combination of factors, many of which can be controlled, yet for societal reasons are not, whether it's the richie rich machismo of racing, the glorification of solo yachties. Fastnet blurb posted:In August 1979, 303 yachts began the 600-mile Fastnet Race from the Isle of Wight off the southwest coast of England to Fastnet Rock off the Irish coast and back. Fatal Storm blurb posted:the Sydney to Hobart yacht race is one of the world's major sporting events. In 1998, it became one of the world's major sporting disasters. Six sailors tragically perished and numerous yachts sank or were badly damaged. the subsequent search and rescue operation was one of the most phenomenally accomplished peacetime effortsthe world has ever seen. In this fully updated edition to mark the 10th anniversary of the tumultuous race, Rob Mundle, one of Australia's leading journalists and yachtsmen, tells this story of challenge and survival with compassion, vigour and understanding. Drawing from extensive interviews with officials, crews, survivors and rescue service personnel, he relates like no other the calamity and triumph of the 1998 blue water classic. 'Mundle's portrayals of courageous sailors and heroic rescuers fighting for their lives are as vivid as any I have read.'- John Rousmaniere, author Fastnet, Force 10
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May 30, 2017 20:46
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Picnic Princess posted:Wait, how many of the historic dead were actually disabled compared to able bodied people?
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Jan 1, 2018 00:22
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LastCaress posted:In less than a month I'll try and summit Elbrus Thanks for sharing that picture. Holy cow.
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Jul 8, 2018 22:37
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Not as dangerous as Everest, obviously, but still a challenge. Last month I was in Nepal, and this is why people climb :
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May 23, 2019 21:28
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Return of welp
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May 24, 2019 15:14
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It'll be interesting to see what Nepal does. Their standard response has been to say "We're a poor country, we need the money." There needs to be some per-day summit limit. Let the climbers have a battle royale, and the bleeding winners get to make a summit attempt the next day?
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May 24, 2019 23:15
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You buy a May permit. You are entered into a lottery with all the other May permit-buyers. You are assigned a day. No summits that day? Too bad, try again next year. (Climbing in winter? Godspeed you crazy diamond.)
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May 25, 2019 07:15
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Son of Welp
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May 25, 2019 17:48
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Sand Monster posted:Or the "blow off the top of Mt. Everest so that K2 is the highest peak in the world" idea. Everest is practically a cakewalk comparatively from a technical standpoint.
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May 26, 2019 21:30
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Welp strikes back e: Also, Oh God No Alan Arnette posted:K2 and the Karakorum Arsenic Lupin fucked around with this message at 23:22 on May 27, 2019 |
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May 27, 2019 23:18
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ZombieLenin posted:Don’t issue permits to anyone who has not already climbed one of the other 8km peaks, then raise price of permits. e: Last I read, one third of the people who made it up to the top of K2 didn't make it down. And these were the best of the best.
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May 28, 2019 02:33
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simplefish posted:Kilimanjaro isn't an 8km peak though? Whoops, my bad. e: Turns out Cho Oyu is overcrowded, too. quote:This huge flock of tourist mountaineers caused the Chinese government to ban climbing routes to the summit of Cho Oyu for a year in 2009. Reason was there were simply too many ambitious climbers who had set Cho Oyu as their climbing goal. Arsenic Lupin fucked around with this message at 04:23 on May 28, 2019 |
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May 28, 2019 04:20
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Yip. Nobody is capable of dragging you up K2.
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May 28, 2019 21:24
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What are people calling the Hillary Step now that it isn't a step? The Hillary Incline?
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May 29, 2019 19:33
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Seriously, K2 hates you and wants you dead.
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Jul 6, 2019 04:16
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(the plaque reads) Hier fiel Für seine Heimat Sepp Innerkofler Here fell [I have no idea if this is "fell, died" or "fell, off a cliff" in the original German] for his home Sepp Innerkofler. I am mildly surprised that the Italians haven't corrected the plaque to "in order to invade somebody else's country".
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Sep 22, 2019 01:53
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ZombieLenin posted:But was that Austria-Hungarian territory prior to the First World War? Keep in mind Italy actually invaded Austria during the First World War. In fact, much of what is now the “Italian Alps” was actually Austria-Hungarian territory prior to the end of World War One. Ohhhhh! Thanks for the new info.
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