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My high point record is Mauna Kea, in Hawaii. That's going from sea level to 4200m. Of course that's easy when you're being driven up! There's an acclimatisation stop at the visitor centre half-way and you only spent about an hour at the top. I was fine but my travel companion felt the effects badly.
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Munin posted:What is the world's most famous ladder? Or, although rarely talked about directly, the ladder on the Apollo 11 moonlander is now destined to be noticed subconsciously by a non-trival percentage of humankind until such time as society collapses.
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On the other hand, science points towards us living in a Block Universe so time and motion is all an illusion.
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How different would the 'let rich people climb the tallest mountain' industry be if Everest had ended up 250m shorter? The sane answer would be "barely existent" but experience says "Exactly like now but with an even more terrible death toll".
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Jan 4, 2021 13:58
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Life goal: First nude climb of Everest.
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SpaceSDoorGunner posted:Rich people dying doing extreme sports?
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Jan 20, 2021 15:50
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My new life goal: first naked climb of Everest followed by the first wingsuit descent. Please donate to my kickstarter...
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At the risk of putting this back on subject... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbgv7ntfRUQ Watch it to the end.
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Have some avalanche science... https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/01/9-russian-adventurers-mysteriously-froze-to-death-a-new-theory-explains-why/
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Are we sure it wasn't the Jewish Space Laser?
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crazy eyes mustafa posted:Is this funny at all?
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Ohthehugemanatee posted:The Qanon congress lady had some old posts dug up ranting about Jewish space lasers causing forest fires as some sort of scheme to lower costs for public transportation. I suspect the poster was joking about that.
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* WARNING * Another entry in the bad photoshop annals. https://www.dpreview.com/news/5994680202/couple-who-faked-everest-summit-pictures-hit-with-10-year-ban-after-not-doing-it-well-enough * YETI / UFO / MYSTERY PHENOMENON DISCUSSION MAY RESUME * Pablo Bluth fucked around with this message at 16:38 on Feb 4, 2021 |
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SpaceSDoorGunner posted:It’s interesting, while I don’t know anything about the Bill guy I know that region a bit. If you’re not from the Western US or somewhere like South Florida, Australia, Brazil or South Africa where massive totally untamed tracts wilderness with hazards 10000+ foot mountains or nearly impassible swamps is smack up against very populated urban areas flanked by what perceived as very safe and controlled hiking trails it’s hard to grasp just how quickly things can go from “a nice place to walk your dog” to alone and unafraid and soon to be either getting lost, falling to death in the winter or getting heatstroke in the summer.
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If I ever get the chance to do some more solo travelling for wildlife photography, I think I'll pick up a Garmin InReach. It's two way communication and you can get a single month subscription. Compared to the rest of the cost of trips, it's not really that much compared to the potential benefit if something does go wrong.
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While the Japan thing sounds bureaucratic, some countries just don't like technology that empowers or allows people to bypass their control. https://blog.telestial.com/2017/11/countries-where-satellite-phones-banned-or-restricted/ China fucks with it's maps so GPS never lines up (unless it's an approved device that also fucks with the coordinates). Don't get caught using unofficial maps... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9Di-UVC-_4
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It's amazing wild animals live as long as they do. We've clearly become genetically soft.
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SpaceSDoorGunner posted:They’re full of parasites and stuff
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shame on an IGA posted:lmao again that 4400' Ben Nevis stacks an average of three bodies every year
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Aphex- posted:We use a dumb mishmash of metric and imperial depending on what we want to measure. No I have no idea why either.
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Jan 28, 2022 10:21
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I measure everything in mm/cm/m except my height and waist which I only know in feet and inches. Edit: terrible new page start....
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A lot of cultures near big mountains seemed to develop a belief that tall mountains are sacred places that shall not be climbed. But I think beyond that, climbing very high mountains is a dangerous, and takes a lot of time and resources. And to top it all there was no Instagram for the selfies, so what was the point?
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At the other end of the scale, a sub that takes rich people to gawk at the Titanic has gone missing. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-65953872
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Went for the Titantic Experience, got the Kursk Experience instead?
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