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Fleta Mcgurn posted:I would pay good money for an Everest book where Zombie Green Boots hunts down and kills anyone who's ever taken a selfie with his corpse. Imagine how slow the chases in a zombie movie on Everest would be.
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nomad2020 posted:Most mountains east of the Mississippi river are day trips at best. The largest is Mount Mitchell in NC, like 6800'. I hiked it in February, the was snow at the top but I was in shorts.
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Arsenic Lupin posted:Mount Washington is 6288', and it kills people every year. The waterfalls in the area are far more dangerous. Idiots die all the time ignoring trail boundaries and slipping on moss or water.
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punishedkissinger posted:Climbing Mt. Washington feels pretty bad when you struggle up there and arrive only to have a bus of tourists roll up, lower itself, and unload in front of you. I have had this exact experience. Then they all waddle over and clog the snack bar and bathroom so it takes you an extra 30 minutes to get water and a pee break.
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The Walrus posted:I can see why people climb mountains, I don't see why people climb Everest. The hardest thing I ever did was ORAMM (offroad assault on Mount Mitchell). It is a 60-mile mountain bike race with 11000' of climbing. I did not feel glorious during or after. I just wanted to die, because I had put my body through absolute hell for nearly 10 hours.
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I have a friend like that, doesn't seem to process danger and fear the same way most of us do. He's chronically injured, has broken dozens of bones.
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Outrail posted:Does he keep them in a storage unit or is this more of a display collection? You can see his lower leg meat flex in a very weird way when he moves his legs, due to a compound tib/fib fracture that bounced around for an hour from rural WV to the nearest thing that resembled an ER. He played kickball on a non-competitive co-ed team with a very obviously broken foot. He's a museum of horrors.
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That's a good point, he is too tough for his own good and won't show it when it really does hurt badly. I guess that's why he went ahead and got married and had children. 
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Leperflesh posted:
I don't think that is quite true, considering the results.
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Epitope posted:I suppose it would have been better if this article said that "Ryan Hawks, age 65, slumped over at his desk and died in his cubicle after 40 years of faithful service to Acme Incorporated. He was just five years away from a meager pension that would have allowed him to eke out his sunset years living like a dog. He leaves behind a wife who hasn't slept with him in 20 years and a couple of kids who were too busy with their own problems to care about what he was doing." Those aren't the only two choices. You can do a somewhat extreme hobby like mountain biking, or skydiving, right? The chances of dying are there, but are relatively low for some very good thrills. I toned down my adrenaline chasing since I've had children, but I still try to send it a bit when I get the chance.
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I met a guy who had a broken hand. I started asking about it and what he does, the answer is MMA. He tells me about the other half dozen injuries he's had the past 3 or 4 years. He was kind of offended when I told him he should look into another line of work.
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Nooner posted:I climbed everest again yesterday it's getting kinda boring now I wish there was something more exciting K2 is thataway
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value-brand cereal posted:Do we have names for these go getters? I'll start the Thoughts and Prayers circle: one day we'll be triple black diamond.
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It's easier to hit home runs in Denver because of the lower air resistance.
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Chaosfeather posted:Wait was that the guy a few days ago "Below the Hillary Step" that some people saw, reported it back at camp, and then they looked out and couldn't find him? Or is this the other climber that was recently lost? Or someone else completely?
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He was brain damaged enough before he tried to climb Everest, I can only imagine how baked his cranium soup is now.
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Tips for climbing K2: sacrifice your horse in the swamp, be confident.
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Leperflesh posted:The US is also missing like 90% of its old growth forests, but it's just a much vaster country and a lot of the wilderness areas were only lightly modified by indigenous peoples before european settlers came, so it's more "unspoiled". I was driving around rural Oregon and saw a sign where they had harvested a forest like 5 or 6 times over the past 120+ years (forgive me, I was driving and not taking pictures). They also stated that Oregon produces the most lumber, and has more trees now than they did 100 years ago. It gave me some hope, anyways.
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That's incredible! I guess you can say you put 2 up on Kobe.
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A space thread makes no sense because literally everything is in space. Furthermore, in this essay, I will show 
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IIRC he's on the autism spectrum, so he doesn't really show his emotions on his face. That and he's part terminator.
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Haha, awesome!
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