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Pawn 17 posted:They should make a series of zip lines that go from the summit all the way down to base camp. Better to just lie on your side and roll down. 
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These threads are my favorite ones of the year. It's fascinating to read all about something that I will absolutely never do, and the fates of people that do not have the appropriate fear of the cruelty of nature.mookface posted:The Canadian lady's story is hilarious. Link for non-mobile version: http://www.cbc.ca/fifth/episodes/2012-2013/into-the-death-zone raditts fucked around with this message at 22:58 on Jan 12, 2015 |
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Rondette, having looked at the photo of your books, I think you'd be the perfect poster to start a mountaineering thread in Book Barn.
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Josef K. Sourdust posted:Rondette, having looked at the photo of your books, I think you'd be the perfect poster to start a mountaineering thread in Book Barn. I have even more now.....I shall corrall them all and share. I am a total armchair mountaineer though, I took the train on Snowdon.
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I want to feel bad about that lady but she was just so dumb. Everyone tried to tell her this was stupid even on the ascent ,the professional climbers were like "Lady you have no oxygen left if you keep going you are seriously going to die!" , "My dreams will see me through this hardship" -Everest deathtoll +1
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Rondette posted:I have even more now.....I shall corrall them all and share. I am a total armchair mountaineer though, I took the train on Snowdon. I started the polar exploration thread in the Book Barn and do you think I've ever got scurvy or killed a seal?* Start the thread and the experts will contribute, recommend and answer questions.  * Except by accident.
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I mean this poo poo isn't any sort of accomplishment you can be proud of. I have respect for those army dudes climbing the challenge slope to a degree, but paying a bunch of Sherpa's to do all the work and then coral you up the south face while praying this particular group of retard westerner suburbanites doesn't get themselves killed on their watch is dumb as hell.
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Axetrain posted:I want to feel bad about that lady but she was just so dumb. Everyone tried to tell her this was stupid even on the ascent ,the professional climbers were like "Lady you have no oxygen left if you keep going you are seriously going to die!" , "My dreams will see me through this hardship" -Everest deathtoll +1 She was dumb as hell to be sure. The only thing is that when you have paid $40k, traveled half way across the world and are that close to the summit (and your brain isn't working properly) it's probably pretty hard to turn back and leave without ever making it. Before even leaving, you'd have to be ready to accept paying all that money and spending all that time and failing; which I think many aren't.
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Axetrain posted:I want to feel bad about that lady but she was just so dumb. Everyone tried to tell her this was stupid even on the ascent ,the professional climbers were like "Lady you have no oxygen left if you keep going you are seriously going to die!" , "My dreams will see me through this hardship" -Everest deathtoll +1 Yeah, I'm watching that CBC video now and man, she just had a death wish and there should've just been people that flat-out refused to take her up for her own stupid good.
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Demonachizer posted:I was happy when that Canadian lady died but felt a little guilty. Now that I am watching the documentary I am even happier and don't feel guilty at all. Oh god, she took a huge picture of her in the yellow snowsuit to Everest 
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Rondette posted:Oh god, she took a huge picture of her in the yellow snowsuit to Everest And hung out for over half an hour at the summit after her oxygen supply was dangerously low Like I said... death wish. She was clearly driven by narcissism, and now she gets her ultimate wish as a frozen lump draped in a Canadian flag.
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Aha, here's the original thread from 2011..... Abandoned on Everest-rest-rest-rest:: Human endurance, corpses and sperg rage ITT
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that was just an alt and her main characters alive and kicking... the jokes on us 
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Haha I started watching that documentary, I'm at the part where they are saying "she will be the first south-east Asian woman from Canada to reach the top" I laughed out loud what a worthless claim to fame. E: Holy gently caress she just picked some startup company that had never taken a single person up the mountain before, lol. Axetrain fucked around with this message at 23:58 on Jan 12, 2015 |
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 vvvvvvvvv Yes, she is....http://www.alyssaazar.com.au although unlike our Canadian friend she seems to have actually climbed some mountains. vvvvvvvv Rondette fucked around with this message at 00:20 on Jan 13, 2015 |
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What's the betting we see that teenage girl who was planning to ascend last year have a go this year? It got talked about in the last thread but.... 
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Josef K. Sourdust posted:What's the betting we see that teenage girl who was planning to ascend last year have a go this year? It got talked about in the last thread but.... I doubt it. Her book she pre wrote of her experiences there doesn't make sense anymore. And her dad is probably broke from sending her last year.
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One of the first google results is still the facebook page. I thought it was a joke thing until I looked at the dates...
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Now, I probably couldn't summit Everest even if I were hauled up by Sherpas in a portable Oxygen tent, but some people have managed it alone with nothing more than some basic climbing gear. Everest today is just Sherpas hauling your rear end up a bunch of ropes and bridges they placed ahead of time while hauling your oxygen bottles for you, right? That hardly seems an impressive accomplishment compared to what the first people to summit Everest must have brought.
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Ursine Asylum posted:One of the first google results is still the facebook page. I thought it was a joke thing until I looked at the dates... Hey guys I climbed a 20ft rock climbing wall rated a 5.6 WELP TIME FOR EVEREST
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Saddest thing about Mt. Everest to me is that its littered with discarded trash now. People talk about how its such a beautiful place but then you see pictures of all the stuff climbers have left behind on it in their quest for the top. So yeah, even if you succeed in reaching one of the most remarkable places on the planet, in the process you've tarnished it further and ruined its natural splendor. The whole thing is a testament to greed. Spend a ridiculous amount of cash, get pulled up a slope, throw crap on it before stumbling back down.
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Internet Kraken posted:Saddest thing about Mt. Everest to me is that its littered with discarded trash now. People talk about how its such a beautiful place but then you see pictures of all the stuff climbers have left behind on it in their quest for the top. So yeah, even if you succeed in reaching one of the most remarkable places on the planet, in the process you've tarnished it further and ruined its natural splendor. The whole thing is a testament to greed. Spend a ridiculous amount of cash, get pulled up a slope, throw crap on it before stumbling back down. Trash and poo poo. It is the frozen Ganges
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The way they stay tactful and maintain a tone of respect just makes the whole trainwreck-in-motion more damning as it reaches the conclusion. These threads got me to read several books and watch more mountaineering documentaries than I can recall. Did I ever post about my brief stint? I was considering climbing Mt. Whitney and trying to get in shape for that. For Whitney I'd have to start at 7,000 ft and climb 7,000 ft elevation in a day. (Ultimately, I never got in good enough condition to make an attempt.) I made a habit of hiking up a nearby 2,000 ft mountain. Not much of a mountain, I know, but I'd go down to the beach first so I could at least start at literal sea-level. I needed to see how I could fare at higher elevations so I took a trip. I started in the grand tetons doing half-day hikes starting at I think 6,000 ft elevation. I'm sure some of you live at higher altitudes than that, but I was coming from sea-level and wanted to give myself room to acclimate. I didn't have much difficulty.    Next I went to yellowstone and did 2 all-day hikes both around 7,000 ft. Finally I went for Mt. Washburn (10,000 ft) and that completely floored me. I ran out of breath in no time at all, then just couldn't catch my breath again.    I really pushed myself but I reached a point where every few steps up was a struggle. My legs weren't particularly tired but my lungs were having no more, I hit a wall around 500 ft from the summit and couldn't go on. I'd stopped to take breathers before but this one was it for me, the last 500 ft was 500 ft I didn't have in me. Then a gorgeous girl in short shorts powered her way by me and shot me a smile.  She was just leaving when I reached the summit but at least I got to talk to her.  Finally, I went to glacier national which was by far the most beautiful location.   A little scary at times as well. 
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Sanctum posted:I think we get a free pass on that one. You think we're over-critical of her now that she's dead, you should see the poo poo we slung before she died. That woman was not prepared to climb Everest.
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Now I want to climb Everest and be the first person to rail the first Southeast Asian Woman From Canada To Summit Everest. Also, how come nobody's ridden a snowmobile off the peak of Everest and then wingsuited down with a GoPro on their helmet? I want to see that fuckin' footage. (Yes, I understand that none of that is possible, doesn't mean it wouldn't rule)
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if Everest is an overhyped bitch mountain full of trash, what is an actual cool mountain to climb?
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mookface posted:She was a moron. She was warned like a hundred times to go back down because she didn't have enough oxygen to ascend and descend and she didn't listen. She made it to the top but died going down. How many women must suffocate while going down before action is taken?
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Fonzarelli posted:if Everest is an overhyped bitch mountain full of trash, what is an actual cool mountain to climb? K2 probably.
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Fonzarelli posted:if Everest is an overhyped bitch mountain full of trash, what is an actual cool mountain to climb? K2. Your mushed up gore-ghost will have the most insane stories in heaven.
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Fonzarelli posted:if Everest is an overhyped bitch mountain full of trash, what is an actual cool mountain to climb?
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Hell, if you're looking for technically challenging climbs that aren't on murdermountains that thirst for human blood, go climb Mount Rainier or some poo poo.
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I TOTALLY DID IT AND OVERCAME THE ODDS AND IT WAS A TOTAL JOURNEY OF SPIRIT MIND AND BODY AND FEW CAN SAY THEY DID WHAT I DID BUT I BEAT ADVERSITY AND DID IT #IDIDIT
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Would it be possible to build some sort of trebuchet to fling me to the mountain's peak?
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