AceRimmer posted:

https://twitter.com/alan_arnette/status/1419689709383700484

Drone_Fragger posted:

The trick is to only pay your Sherpas on the way up. They have to go down too. Just follow them back down.

Outrail posted:

This is your home

Did you happen to see my buddy Tsewang? He's wearing my lucky green boots.

ilmucche posted:

Not falling for that one again

Mynameismud posted:

Here is a doc on the Sherpa's that do all the work.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-OaqZ4Cyarc

And here is a doc that follows a women in her quest to Everest.
And that did not end well for her.
She ignored all the warnings and it cost her her live.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEcHBFs-qME

Aphex- posted:

Pressure doesn't matter as long as you can equalise your ears and yeah it'll be cold but that record was probably with some kind of wetsuit. Freediving has much less chance of getting the bends too because you're not actually down there for long enough.

Holding your breath for that long though is still absolutely insane.

bird with big dick posted:

How bad a brain damage are we talking like does the guy think it was worth it or does he regret it

quote:

Following extensive training using an innovative torpedo-type sled design of very high descend and ascend speed, on 6 June Nitsch managed to reach a depth of 253.2 meters (831 ft), a Guinness World Record, but ten minutes after the dive he began experiencing serious symptoms of decompression sickness. Nitsch temporarily fell asleep due to nitrogen narcosis during the last part of the ascent (as opposed to through oxygen starvation), and woke up prior to reaching the surface. Following a planned post-dive decompression, breathing medical oxygen at a shallow depth, he signaled to his support team that he felt much weaker than normal and his condition was assessed as critical enough to require an air transfer to a pre-alerted decompression chamber in Athens, where he received treatment. He incurred multiple brain strokes due to severe decompression sickness. He subsequently received extensive decompression treatment in Germany.

The initial prognosis was that he would need home care and be unable to walk without assistance. However, through extensive rehabilitation, he made a strong recovery. He still has balance and coordination problems on land, but does not experience them underwater. He continues to deep free-dive.

ChaseSP posted:

That's not brain damage, that fucker got cursed to stay in the sea or else.

mobby_6kl posted:

Facebook Aunt posted:

Yeah that is too much rope.

How about a corpe retrieval zip line?

Cojawfee posted:

I'll bet you could get those bodies going fast enough to launch them back to their home country.

Aphex- posted:

Back in 2007 I spent a few months doing some volunteer conservation work in the Yucutan, which involved a lot of scuba diving. Our instructor was a cave diver, so naturally he also got us cavern diver certified. That involved spending a couple of days at one of the many cenotes dotted around the Yucutan, Dos Ojos. Cavern diving is technically different and "safer" than cave diving, the difference being this:



Our instructor was a bit of a crazy guy, and on the last cavern dive he took us on he decided to take us deeper into the cave on an actual cave dive instead. We ended up being single file in this cave only about three times as wide and high as a person laying horizontal, kicking up loads of dust and fine particles and not being able to see poo poo. We surfaced in this cavern with just a tiny slice of natural light at the top which was completely filled with nesting bats. Our instructor had the biggest poo poo-eating grin on his face when he told us we just did a cave dive. After that and we dived back through the cave, at the end of it he got us all to turn off our lights and just floated there in the pitch black underwater. It was absolutely surreal.

The whole cavern and cave diving experience was one of the best things I've ever done and even 16 years later I still think about it. I haven't gone cave diving since but that's probably a good thing tbf. Anyway here are a few 2007-era digital camera pics of it:

This was the entrance of the cenote where we started the dive.






The cave just disappears into the darkness.


The water in the cavern was so crystal clear most of the time it was like you were just floating in the air.




This sign isn't the exact same one since I couldn't find a pic myself of the one at Dos Ojos, but it looked the same as this one. We swam up to it and it was incredibly eerie, the current at the point where this sign was was super strong, like it was trying to pull us further into the cave. It really was like darkness beckoning you in a way. Especially when we spent a whole day pre-cavern diving basically being told all the different ways other people have died doing it.


Anyway I guess this is an odd thread to put this in but since there was chat about it I thought I might as well

Strategic Tea posted:

Leperflesh posted:

The great tragedy of Everest is not that it's so hard to get up, but that it's just slightly not hard enough. If it were just a bit more technical of a climb, tourists with no climbing experience would just not be able to manage it at all, and the death toll would be hundreds of people fewer.

K2 is only a tiny bit taller but nobody can climb it without years of high altitude technical climbing experience. So even though it's also more deadly per attempt, far fewer people have died climbing it.

ChaseSP posted:

K2 requires actual climbing skills compared to just being a very difficult hike effectively.

Leperflesh posted:

I meant to type "shorter" honestly lol

But yeah it's not just that K2 is not the tallest, it's also much harder to get to and much much much much harder to climb. You cannot summit K2 if you haven't got years of experience with technical high altitude climbing. There's no way sherpas are setting up ropes and oxygen bottles for you so you can just walk. Look how bad poo poo gets on Everest when the climbers have to deal with the Hillary Step, which requires you to actually climb. Now imagine several thousand meters of that. It's not possible.

Instead of blowing the top off everest, could we like, steepen it? Crack some sides off it.

Outrail posted:

Put K2 on top of Everest

orange juche posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nY46GnlWKqU

enjoy some chill K2 hiking vibes

Anachronist posted:

Lol RIP to the 1% of aspirants dying on Bierstadt every year. Do you mean 20k’? Obviously Rainer is a p legit mountain but we’ve got some tall ones here in CO that are just not that hard.

Anachronist posted:

That’s my point though - it has a lot more to do with objective hazards than elevation and 10k is a threshold without a good relationship to altitude as a serious objective hazard. People die in NH mountains all the time too and those top out at like 5k. There’s roads and gift shops at 14000’ here in CO.

Cojawfee posted:

I'm sure if you tell a few choice patriots that there's such thing as the Hillary Step that they will have it bombed down to sea level within a week.

Platystemon posted:

It’s heartbreaking to see all these kids risk their lives.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hx_2YF_Yo2I

Paladine_PSoT posted:

As of today, 9 confirmed deaths and another missing. There was a non-injury icefall collapse 2 days ago that had to be repaired and closed the route for a while, as well...

HAM ON THE BONE posted:

I was checking out Kick just to see what was on there and found this dude called Ice Poseidon who is live-streaming his entire hike to Everest base camp. It blows my mind that this is even possible. I haven’t read these threads in a few years but I immediately thought of you guys and wanted to share:

https://kick.com/iceposeidon

He just ate breakfast and is about to hit the trail!

e: holy poo poo this is the most surreal content i’ve ever seen. this vaguely lovely and stupid man keeps walking into peoples houses and talking to them like they’re npc’s. he’s been ripped off by every vendor he’s encountered. it’s like watching a bizarro world skyrim stream

e2: lmaooooo holy gently caress he didn’t know about acclimatization days. he encountered a couple hiking down and told them he was gonna just hike everyday and they looked horrified lmao

e3: he just demanded a marker from his sherpas to deface a bridge by signing it. they all quickly said they don’t have one and and exchanged glances. they’re been very polite but i’m pretty sure they hate him. i mean, evidently they didn’t tell him about acclimatization days so they possibly hate him enough to let him die.

e4: well the stream went out cause they went thru a valley (maybe?) so i went on youtube to see what else he’s done and lol:

https://youtu.be/ELw8rMks9Vc

e5: omg stream came back on and the first thing i see is ice poseidon telling a random hiker that he wants to get his dick sucked at base camp. the hiker politely laughed and said that wasn’t his experience at base camp and goes on to tell ice about the base camp bathroom with the 55 gallon drum toilets that get carted out. ice says he won’t poo poo in a bucket he’ll just poo poo off the side of the mountain. the hiker patiently explains the sanitation issues base camp has suffered in the past and ice goes “well since everyone else stopped making GBS threads on the mountain it won’t matter if just i do it”.

i’m losing my mind i really thought i was sharing a stream about a genuine hiking enthusiast

e6: ok last edit, the stream is up on youtube as well and you can rewind the stream. i started watching when the time in the upper left was about 9am:

https://www.youtube.com/live/IcEC_iuED54?feature=share

Nice Tuckpointing! posted:

It still amazes me that the video opens with a drone shot of the summit of K2 like it ain't no thing.

HAM ON THE BONE posted:

attention goons: it’s 8:30am in nepal and our hero has awoken

Panic! At The Tesco posted:

that ice poseidon and his streamer crew were popular a while back and they're a bunch of absolute scumbag dickheads. honestly wouldn't even give his stream the time of day if i was you guys, although i understand it's difficult to look away from a trainwreck in motion.