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Rondette posted:I watched the Everest film recently (and actually FELL ASLEEP during the storm part) and I thought the real 'heroes' were the pilots who managed to fly a helicopter to an as unyet attempted height, at great risk to their own safety, to rescue an American guy who wanted something to tick off his bucket list. I really hope there's eventually one that focuses entirely on that aspect, lots of interviews with families of climbers before they leave, editing to point out the hollowness of the entire affair... Grizzly Man but with dozens of Treadwells every year.
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elwood posted:http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/afp/article-3465726/Climbers-make-winter-ascent-Pakistans-Killer-Mountain.html Kinda surprised they announced before getting back down.
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nomad2020 posted:I'll have you know the Appalachians are some of the nicest hills you'll have the pleasure of walking up. Tell me more about deflated meth tits
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Who needs a new thread this one is fine
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onesixtwo posted:Welp, elwood un-ironically chose the 2017 thread as his hill to die on. stay safe op ghost
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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" P troubling in the age of anti-vax. http://idlewords.com/2010/03/scott_and_scurvy.htm shame on an IGA fucked around with this message at 21:05 on Mar 21, 2017 |
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Everest Thread 2016/17: All Gifts Are Accepted By Chomolungma
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I feel like I just watched someone win the Daytona 500 and then get run over in the parking lot.
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nsaP posted:No one else instantly assumed this or lighting it for heat? There are people there who show up without having tested their gear, you shouldn't expect them to know how to use it. I did but have lost the ability to tell which of three active everest threads I'm posting in. shame on an IGA posted:Is this everest's first Carbon Monoxide kill?
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Business posted:what the gently caress there have been two everest threads this whole time? Shhh don't bring the GBS spotlight on this the good one
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Let's split the difference and just stop having the Isle of Man TT E: Didn't realize it was happening right now, new thread fodder: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Snaefell_Mountain_Course_fatalities At 269 fatalities, this motorcycle race was probably deadlier than everest before those avalanches tipped the scale. shame on an IGA fucked around with this message at 01:01 on Jun 8, 2017 |
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Sirotan posted:Limiting the total number of summit permits every year would probably do a better job of preventing deaths than just telling the blind/amputee/solo climbers to gently caress off. That would decrease the amount of money the government is getting though so Cut the permit count 40% and auction the remainder as non-transferrable, would probably increase revenue
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Yeah really true about the no old climbers thing. If Steck can't make it home, what chance does anyone else have? (Messner doesn't count because there's a 70% chance he is literally God)
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Ms Boods posted:Delaware native here -- it is true, the highest point (which I always thought was up near Mt Cuba Observatory; can't be arsed to look it up) isn't too impressive...maybe you could ascend it the way these guys tackled the Uxbridge Road: 
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gohuskies posted:Somebody needs to start a pool on how many people will troll this thread this year. We're the most active thread in Take A Hike instead of GBS now, so -10 No one who hasn't bookmarked it will ever find it again.
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ante posted:I crouch on a ledge, eating my trail mix and staring at the tourists walking by. They don't know what I've been through. I had to abandon my baby carriage yesterday, about five miles in. I'm running out of water, and as I look down at my body, covered in bruises and scrapes, I wonder what I'm even doing to myself? I really could go for a handful of GORP right now
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Fish Noise posted:I feel that it is well within the spirit of this thread gotta call BS on the relation to the show at least one of those is years old to not include the new confinement building
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So yeah update from K2 sounds like most everyone gave up and went home except the special forces guy who's hellbent on climbing all 14 8000ers in a year, and a couple lunatics with no O2. They made Camp 4 a few hours ago. https://explorersweb.com/2019/07/22/purba-launches-new-k2-push-but-how-risky-is-it/
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