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RaspberrySea
Nov 29, 2004
27. An avalanche is going to take out a whole bottleneck's worth of climbers.

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RaspberrySea
Nov 29, 2004

unpacked robinhood posted:

Are all sherpas called Sherpa ? Is it a cool consanguinity quirk ?

A ton of them are named after the days of the week they're born on too, which is why there's so many Phurbas, Tenzings, Pembas, etc.

They use a lot of nicknames.

RaspberrySea
Nov 29, 2004
Not to mention the current thread in GBS that's nothing but weird fanfic about how Patton Oswalt must have murdered his wife by choking her out and then drugging her to death. And how much overlap there is between the posters in that thread and the ones that poo poo up the Everest thread with their hilarious ironic concern.

RaspberrySea
Nov 29, 2004

gohuskies posted:

Here's a link to the video of Ueli on the Eiger in 2008, a great alpinism video and what got him on a lot of people's radars: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_a0X9rdJ7hc

That bit at 2:15 where he's nearly running up the snowfield is very inspirational to me.

Why even wear a helmet at this point?

RaspberrySea
Nov 29, 2004

Levitate posted:

I'm undecided if that's bad rear end or just really dumb

Save this for next year's thread title.

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RaspberrySea
Nov 29, 2004
Where do people get the money to fail at climbing Everest 8 times?

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