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Picnic Princess posted:Let me give people some context about how ridiculous this image is to a local, using our old friend, Google Maps. This is Lake Louise. It's a 2 hour drive from the third busiest international airport in the country. It's nice that the backdrop she's photoshopped in front of is very easy to reach for the average tourist.
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Arsenic Lupin posted:Check out the book or movie The Eiger Sanction. The movie has especially good climbing scenes all filmed in the dark ages before modern climbing shoes allowed everyone to be spiderman.
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Nuggan posted:Here is a cool gif of basecamp. Really shows how high up it is when you realize the clouds are right there. 
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I'll take the smallest positive integer that's left. Edit: 29! Ahh Ahh Ahh 
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~Coxy posted:So, what's the easiest 6500+ meter peak to summit? Probably aconcagua. It's high but you can get to the top without anything technical and it's reasonably well traveled so there's more logistic support.
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Really, even though it's sad she died can anyone honestly say the world is worse off?
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May 31, 2016 01:20
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Aphex- posted:Seems like a climber (who's blind in one eye!) sacrificed his summit attempt on the 21st to save the life of another climber who was sliding down the fixed lines. The mountain knows when it got cheated and it will remember. The mountain will win in the end.
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Jun 4, 2016 23:36
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Centripetal Horse posted:Haha, the caption under that photo: "How hard is it to climb Mount Everest?" It's pretty hard in the way that climbing a mountain is hard but it's also really hard in the way that playing russian roulette is hard.
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Jun 7, 2016 05:29
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Pick posted:I mean it's still loving hard. I'd do it if it weren't super expensive and likely to kill me (which is why I do other outdoorsy stuff instead). There's not question it's super hard. It's just also compounded by a very good chance you'll drop dead or get stormed and it's completely out of your control.
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Jun 7, 2016 06:52
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Cockmaster posted:I actually have wondered if it would be at all feasible to develop a helicopter (or some form of VTOL aircraft) which can reliably operate that high up. It would be nice to have some solution for rescuing climbers from the Death Zone, or at least getting rid of some of the corpses. If we have a way to rescue people we'll just get more morons on the mountain.
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Banff is very nice but there has to be a second nice view in all of Canada.
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