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Devorum posted:Before finding this thread a couple of days ago, I could not have cared less about mountaineering. Now I can't get enough of the documentaries and I've bought more books about Everest and K2 than I knew existed. I climbed Fuji in July last year, and it isn't an overly hard climb, even for someone out of shape as i am. Recommend climbing it on a weekday, as i heard it can get very crowded on the weekend, i went up on a Monday night and whilst there were a quite a few people around, it never got to the point where i had to stop and wait for people in front of me. Also make sure you travel at night, the views when the sun rises are awesome.
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The body of the man who fell into the crevasse last week was recovered. I can only hope he didn't suffer for long.  https://www.facebook.com/media/set/...38869977&type=1 quote:After a week of trying, late in the afternoon on March 19, Parks Canada Visitor Safety Specialists recovered the body of a man missing on the Wapta Traverse in Yoho National Park. Parks Canada was first notified of a distress signal at 12:26 am on March 13 and immediately initiated a search for a group of three missing skiers. From dawn to dusk on March 13 and 14, the rescue team made multiple helicopter-assisted and ground-based rescue attempts. All attempts were unsuccessful due to blizzard conditions and high avalanche hazard. The link goes to a small photo album of the rescue and recovery.
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Mr. Funny Pants posted:Shouldn't that be The percentage thing is kind of a bullshit statistic. Basically it's the number of people who did it completely without dying divided by the number of people who died there, ignoring people who just tried and died or tried and gave up but lived. Those groups are obviously not totally inclusive so it's not really a percentage, but it still gives a decent picture of how ridiculous the route is. It's more common to die than succeed, basically.
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I just got back from being away for work for a few weeks and in my mailbox I found this. Thanks again to mr.nazi for being such a cool dude and sending it to me for free! Can't wait to start reading it.
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Has this been posted? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WqTcD9Amfq4 quote:After surviving a terrifying avalanche, Ed Viesturs is the first American to summit all 14 of the world's highest mountains without supplemental oxygen. It's basically Ed Viesturs talking about his experiences climbing. Pretty cool stuff.
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johnsonrod posted:I just got back from being away for work for a few weeks and in my mailbox I found this.
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the kawaiiest posted:Has this been posted? I went with my dad to one of the NG Live lectures about 15 years ago which had Viesturs talking about climbing. I remember him being one of my heroes then having just read Into Thin Air and High Exposure by David Breashears. I don't think he had finished the 14 eight-thousanders by the time of that talk.
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Officer Sandvich posted:I went with my dad to one of the NG Live lectures about 15 years ago which had Viesturs talking about climbing. I remember him being one of my heroes then having just read Into Thin Air and High Exposure by David Breashears. I don't think he had finished the 14 eight-thousanders by the time of that talk. e: this Sherpa has reached the summit of Everest 21 times. Holy poo poo. the kawaiiest fucked around with this message at Mar 26, 2013 around 09:18 |
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genericuser posted:
Heh, Tremadog? When I lead that pitch I accidentally traversed onto the arete too early, straight onto the crux of the adjacent E1. Did it complaining that it felt hard and scary for an HS, before realising my mistake. Cracking route though, and a brilliant crag!
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the kawaiiest posted:He certainly hadn't, he finished them in 2005 according to Wikipedia. So you saw him while he was trying to do the 14. That's really awesome. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RqpqMBCsnXc Both Apa and Lhapka Sherpa eventually moved the Utah taking menial jobs such as delivering pizzas for many years since they both wanted better education access for their children. Education access is another big problem in Sherpa community since the remote nature of villages means the kid spend 4 hour roundtrip each day just walking to the local school. etalian fucked around with this message at Mar 26, 2013 around 14:14 |
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Ueli Steck is up to more of his shenanigans. He wants to climb multiple peaks in the Swiss Alps in a single day, summitting one and then paragliding down the base of the next one to start over and repeat the process several times. Notably though, before this endeavour started he had no experience of handling a paraglider. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8yns694E5Qg Following this, his next adventure is with italian partner-in-crime Simone Moro. It was ~60 years ago that Everest was first summitted, and to mark this occasion Steck and Moro plan to climb the South Face alpine style. No sherpas, no supplemental oxygen. News about this covered here: http://daily.epictv.com/blog/2013/0...ute-on-everest/
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Climbing season is coming up. Looks like it might be time for a new 2013 thread?
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| # ? Apr 5, 2013 09:35 |
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No, stay the course! We can't turn back now!
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| # ? Apr 5, 2013 14:07 |
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I volunteered to do a new thread earlier but in all honesty I don't have the time to do it justice. FYI it's the 60 year anniversary of Hillary and Norgay summiting this year. I was thinking the thread title should be something along the lines of 'Everest 2013 - 60 years and nothing learned' .......or similar anyway. Edit- hrm I wonder if it being the anniversary will mean there will be more Bucket-listers up there than in other years? Rondette fucked around with this message at Apr 5, 2013 around 21:33 |
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pr0k posted:No, stay the course! We can't turn back now! +1 Not when we're so close!
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| # ? Apr 5, 2013 23:16 |
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JiimyPopAli posted:+1 Not when we're so close! I trained by walking up and down hills in my neighborhood for this!
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Trevor Hale posted:I trained by walking up and down hills in my neighborhood for this! I've been posting in other threads without oxygen so this thread is surely the same. What kind of things are must-haves for the new OP? I could put one together.
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Paramemetic posted:I've been posting in other threads without oxygen so this thread is surely the same. Make sure you outline the whole 'but why don't they just help the people' about the death zone. It seems to have come up every 10 pages or so in this thread.
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| # ? Apr 6, 2013 01:48 |
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"Why not just have a helicopter" should be a section.
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| # ? Apr 6, 2013 02:06 |
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I paid my fees. Which one of you will carry me up the thread? Hopefully you won't be distracted by me blogging on the way up. This thread has been fascinating in a something I will never do kind of way. Before it was hard for me to imagine that I would be keeping up to date on mountaineering.
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| # ? Apr 6, 2013 02:35 |
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Voting for "All of this will happen again" for the new thread title.
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| # ? Apr 6, 2013 02:42 |
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"There are no *new* ways to die on Everest. Only on K2."
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| # ? Apr 6, 2013 02:50 |
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pr0k posted:No, stay the course! We can't turn back now!
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| # ? Apr 6, 2013 02:58 |
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You guys can just teach me everything I need to know about posting right?
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| # ? Apr 6, 2013 03:03 |
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Is this the appropriate time to post the pictures of that female Asian-Canadian climber?
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Albinator posted:The next few pages will be littered with corpses. "If you look out on that ledge of nested quotes, you'll see the one we call 'T-rex Pilot Av'... Poor bastard just got so tired reading all those quotes he just collapsed on the thread. Sherpas just had to cut 'im off the ropes and leave 'im."
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| # ? Apr 6, 2013 04:02 |
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"We could build an escalator to the top" and the follow up section "I loving hate all of you and want to build an escalator to hell".
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http://forums.somethingawful.com/sh...hreadid=3542451 WHO WILL SUMMIT FIRST? In the next day or two I'm going to put together some detail stuff about the different approaches and such and slam it in the OP. I can't go through this thread and pull out all the awesome material because frankly there are 53 pages of awesome material. So please post your favorite stuff. Paramemetic fucked around with this message at Apr 6, 2013 around 05:06 |
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This thread has been fantastic. It begins with a Canadian woman dying near the summit, descends into how stupid climbing Everest with no experience is, ski lifts, and helicopters. Then rises from the ashes with book reviews and Nepal trekking excursions. I have no interest in mountaineering but have bought Into Thin Air, High Crimes, and K2, with more books in my wishlist. Mt Everest casts a long shadow.
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| # ? Apr 6, 2013 05:11 |
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pr0k posted:No, stay the course! We can't turn back now! You should really turn back before this thread fever gets you killed!
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| # ? Apr 6, 2013 05:22 |
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First Ever South Asian Canadian Female Mount Everest Climbing Thread
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Cojawfee posted:"Why not just have a helicopter" should be a section. I know most helicopters can't get up that high, but how about this? Before you ask, yes, I am joking.
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