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UberJew posted:I'd be more impressed by somebody completing the whole Pacific Crest Trail than climbing Everest did we really make it all the way to june before someone busted this one out
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Jumpingmanjim posted:Please do not be racist against the Appalachian Americans. appallachia isnt a race
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if a goon dies on everest, there will forever be the biggest of all stairs in his house
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Jun 24, 2016 23:45
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Pekinduck posted:Ive seen a lot of florescent lighting in my day and that flag is lit with florescent lighting. Yeah, the light's also from above, and fairly hard. A summit photo should be pretty evenly soft-lit because of snow reflection from all angles.
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Jul 1, 2016 02:30
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I Own Soulz posted:Why is it called morphing? What happened to 'photoshopped' or just 'shopped'? i heard adobe was getting more litigious in defense of their copyright, maybe "morphed" is like "adhesive bandage strips" or "facial tissue"
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Jul 2, 2016 11:28
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can yall take the sperglord nuke fanboy slapfest to literally anywhere else
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Jul 12, 2016 07:09
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High Lord Elbow posted:No one who plays Pokemon has the monetary assets or physique to get to base camp. idk that google guy who got killed last year was posting instagram selfies of him drinking espresso over a crevasse, i feel like he was probably terrible enough to have done it
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Jul 13, 2016 18:59
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Moridin920 posted:lol my only reaction to things like this is to chuckle and think 'the hubris of man' it was his last instagram post before he was killed, literally, in writing, mocking the mountain's danger  you cant make this poo poo up lol
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Jul 14, 2016 19:53
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High Lord Elbow posted:I thought the only way to die there was to suffocate beneath a mountain of trash and feces. It's in the middle of Africa. The whole continent hungers.
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Jul 21, 2016 20:51
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In 2015 the race was outright won by an electric car for the first time. e: get your non hillclimb effortposts the gently caress out of here
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Jul 25, 2016 00:46
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I had a college professor who did Everest base camp once; I think it was in support of someone else's expedition. He said that was as close as he cared to get, and this is a guy who fuckin' loved mountaineering, had been doing it since he was a teen.
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Aug 11, 2016 17:41
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it's true. i abandoned my children to the elements. this game is my family now
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Aug 25, 2016 03:20
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I once hiked from my house at about 200 feet, to a 935-foot hill a few miles away, then back. I got a few blisters but it was a nice, relaxing way to spend a day off. Well, that's my mountaineering story.
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Sep 30, 2016 08:28
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There's so many environmental and physiological variables at play in altitude sickness that there's no way to definitively predict it who will get it at what altitude. It's very much a "watch for it and take steps to mitigate and treat it if it comes up" kinda thing. It sounds like they made all the sensible choices in reaction to her symptoms, and it just didn't work out. RIP cool-as-hell-sounding Parks Canada lady 
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Oct 8, 2016 00:54
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elwood posted:Everything is packed. I'm flying to Kathmandu tomorrow. If everything works according to plan, I'm in Lukla on friday, Namche Basar on saturday and Base Camp on november 2nd. http://youtu.be/gvKs2VLmVnY
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Oct 18, 2016 17:13
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Shangri-Law School posted:An excerpt from a new book about mountaineering by Gabriel Filippi. It's pretty sobering, though this part's blackly comedic. Stories like this always break me up a bit because I get that feeling, that never-give-up drive, but the mountain just does not give a poo poo how spunky or determined or willful or confident you are. If it's time to turn around, it's time to turn around right now. Summit fever kills.
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Oct 22, 2016 10:53
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Aphex- posted:Any requests on corpse position if I succumb to HACE or HAPE? attempting and failing at autofellatio (the failure mode is that your pooping on you're face)
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Oct 24, 2016 10:58
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Nocheez posted:Crosspost from AI: I thought part of why such big teams of sherpas were needed is that it was all mountain trails, goat paths and poo poo. there's a dirt road all the way there?
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Oct 27, 2016 23:42
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Cojawfee posted:Sony was focused on making a decent console without taking any risks. Nintendo was down to take a few risks but still make it a decent console. Sega was going full Atari. The hill start assist is designed to help prevent the vehicle from rolling backwards when starting on an incline or slippery slope. To activate the hill start assist, fully depress the brake pedal until the Slip Indicator blinks and you hear a beep. The brakes will continue to be held and the brake lights left on until the accelerator is touched or two seconds have elapsed since the driver has released the brake pedal. The parking brake must not be applied otherwise hill start assist will not activate.
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Nov 2, 2016 00:33
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elwood posted:Thanks, but no. You can't take bad pictures up here. i spent some time in the high rockies and yeah, as long as your horizon was close to level you were p much ansel adams i imagine it's even more so in the himalayas
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Nov 2, 2016 10:49
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Yeah, high altitude does some incredible stuff for the night sky. So does a lack of light pollution. The most benign ordinary night at altitude, even near a town, will be as brilliant as the most rare perfect night at sea level. Same deal as the photography thing; the rockies were incredible at 10k feet, so I imagine the himalayas are even more so.
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Nov 2, 2016 17:14
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elwood posted:On the one hand he climbed it already so he knows what he's getting into. On the other hand, he seems to have a deathwish and with a 5 month old child, he is a selfish rear end in a top hat. i get that he wants to complete the project the avalanche cut short  from the sound of it he views it as his career's magnum opus. hopefully he succeeds and retires. if he doesn't... well, it's not like the kid will remember it
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Nov 23, 2016 01:39
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ZombieLenin posted:This reminds me. At my former gym they had a stair master Everest thing, where if you "climbed" Everest on a stir master you got your picture on the wall. i'm sorry you weren't fit enough to everest the stairmaster, goon sire
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Nov 30, 2016 23:43
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ZombieLenin posted:It's not even that. I'm imaging the people whose picture was on the wall going on with their lives and talking about the time they "basically climbed Everest." You know that has to happen. so you're mad at your imagination?
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Dec 12, 2016 21:38
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ZombieLenin posted:That's pretty deep and complex. Let me just retort by saying we are always angry about things we imagine. And by that, I mean, every time you get angry about something, even if it's somebody just curb stomped your mom, you are getting angry based on your idiosyncratic (or socially conditioned, pick one, either works) interpretation of events. This is an imaginative process. right, but in your case you thought up an fictional person & fictional actions for them, then posted about how mad you were about this fiction you'd imagined
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Dec 21, 2016 22:39
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ZombieLenin posted:No, not really. No more than you're fictionalizing me right now. They had a giant picture of themselves on the gym wall that said "I climbed Mt. Everest." wait, it literally said "i climbed mt everest" lmao yeah no im with you that's dumb
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Dec 22, 2016 20:41
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k2 probably has the most impressive list of kills, but no all the mountains left with no recorded summits are either illegal to climb or crazy super isolated in the artic/antartic
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Jan 13, 2017 22:28
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Syncopated posted:Eh, there's loads of stuff left in Tibet and Kyrgyzstan at least. The ones left are either lower, like 5000m, or more isolated though. I know for a fact two swedish amateurs and a slovenian dude did a first ascent in either Tibet or Nepal last year, which was real climbing but nothing really extreme. There's also entire unexplored valleys and stuff in India and Pakistan where the military are really restrictive with permits, but there are a few serious mountaineers who do it every year. Wow. Shows what I know. It's bonkers to me how huge and sparse the Himalayas are.
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Jan 14, 2017 22:33
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DumbparameciuM posted:Annual Everest thread 2017: ALL GIFTS ARE ACCEPTED BY ARANAKTU someone who cares more than me needs to make a good op and launch the 2017 thread
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Jan 24, 2017 08:52
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re: yuppie instagram vacations cuba : 2017 :: vietnam : 2013 :: k2 : 2019
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i dont know if i did the colon/doublecolons right
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Jan 26, 2017 08:31
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haha well i guess get a mod to change the thread title into this being the 2017 one? lmao
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Feb 5, 2017 11:22
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what if we had a deathpool, but the prize for winning was you got banned
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Feb 7, 2017 07:17
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I've heard people say "Everest was conquered with wool, leather, fur, down, and silk" as a retort to the idea that you need modern fabrics to set foot outside your door for day hikes. Aside from that dumb quagmire of a debate, I was curious just how true that statement was. What did Norgay and Hillary use?
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You also have to account for summit fever as motivation. It's all a wash. I don't think we're ever going to get a better answer than we have now, unless someone finds their camera.
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shame on an IGA posted:Re the scott expedition, this was a really good piece I read a while back looking at it from the context of medical science deciding limes weren't the cure for scurvy despite 100 years of results because they didn't make a distinction between limes and lemons. "Egads! These green lemons don't work, there must be another cause at play and they were never the healing factor after all" those "100 years of results" were mostly down to steam power making voyages short enough that nobody got scurvy despite the uselessness of pre-juiced, stored-in-copper lime juice. so when people discovered that the pre-juiced, stored-in-copper citrus juice that had been "working" for a hundred years did not, in fact, work, it took a while to figure out why. In the meantime, attempts to figure out why hit a lot of dead ends. e: literal dead ends in the case of Scott 
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Mar 22, 2017 15:06
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Mar 26, 2017 21:36
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I'll recommend Mountaineering: The Freedom of the Hills with the caveat that it's entirely technical. As in, it's a textbook on all things mountaineering, from bouldering, tshirts, and day-hiking all the way up to multi-day big wall climbs, crampons, goretex, and 8000m summits. Avalanche risk evaluation, the pros and cons of various materials and types of gear, an exhaustive list of knots and how to tie them, and on and on and on. If you do anything that even grazes the topic it's a useful resource, in addition to just being a fun read if you're the sort of nerd like me who enjoys technical-reading-fueled daydreaming.
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Mar 28, 2017 08:50
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I forgot about the anonymous polish alcoholic. That's such a great story.
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"some climbing experience" and "in decent shape" is the prerequisite for having all your poo poo hauled by sherpas that's not even really just a "Everest tourism" thing either. that's just how gear gets hauled overland up there, on foot. and in the case of a summit attempt, you need to haul a shitload of gear to base camp, then proportionally smaller huge loads of poo poo to the higher camps. Unless you're traveling ultralight and moving exceptionally fast (which only, like, the top 1% of climbers can manage, think Olympic marathoner levels of fitness and training), you're having most your poo poo hauled by sherpas. it's just how it works.
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