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Even in the documentary, he didn't really look sad. Just exasperated and angry. "Yeah... I uh, admire that she had the guts to do it." 
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I'm Crap posted:dunked the claim form into the basura laughin' "Basura" has me cracking up for some reason. Something Awful Mountaineering Threads: Denying life insurance claims since 2011.
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He probably hated her and was too weak-willed to get a divorce, so he just let her go and die so that he had an easy way out + a tray of funeral fudge at the ceremony in Nepal. 
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Thanks to this thread i watched the Everest documentary on Netflix last night, it was pretty good. 45 minutes long and narrated by Liam Neeson, it doesn't get much better than that. The documentary was filmed during 1996 when all those idiots died during that storm. The guy leading the expedition for the documentary was at base camp when the other groups of climbers decided to make for the summit with the weather being really bad. The expedition lead said "nope, too dangerous" and decided to wait a while longer. He then got to talk to his friend who was stuck up on the mountain dying during the storm, knowing he could do nothing to save him. It was ok, not enough shots of dead bodies, and could have used a little more death.
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Somebody should like make the ultimate sacrifice and carry a boat anchor up there and just die right on top of the summit thus spoiling the amusement park.
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25 CRAZY FACTS THAT WILL MAKE YOU WANT TO CLIMB MOUNT EVEREST: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jnN3ABP5XQ4 "Number twenty: One out of every ten successful climbs to the summit ends in death." A very poorly-titled video.
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Lincoln posted:25 CRAZY FACTS THAT WILL MAKE YOU WANT TO CLIMB MOUNT EVEREST: my main response to reading "into thin air" was wanting to climb mt. everest so i guess this works on me?
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Torka posted:not surprisingly
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Into The Silence by Wade Davis is a fantastic book about Mallory and the early British attempts on Everest. Mallory was kind of a dick who talked non stop poo poo about his fellow expedition members and repeatedly failed at whatever he was doing. Notably, Mallory considered the mountain unclimbable and had all but given up until George Finch and Geoff Bruce (an untrained soldier with zero mountaineering experience) set a height record climbing with bottled oxygen.
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nomadologique posted:my main response to reading "into thin air" was wanting to climb mt. everest so i guess this works on me? I haven't read such a page-turner of a book in years. One thing that stands out is how easy a time of it, the book writer had compared to everyone else. People are going insane (checking air bottles in the pile) on top and he's just chugging along, no big deal. Everyone drops like flies and he's all "doodley doo, doop de doop, climbing everest, maybe I'll do it again some day" (no I don't know if he actually said that)
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Has anyone every through hiked from sea level to the summit because that would be cool as hell.
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in the endless quest to be the first by any metric, any qualifier at all, ofc they have http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Macartney-Snape
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XMNN posted:in the endless quest to be the first by any metric, any qualifier at all, ofc they have not impressed unless they went from the dead sea to everest
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Cuckoo posted:Even in the documentary, he didn't really look sad. Just exasperated and angry. "Yeah... I uh, admire that she had the guts to do it." I finally watched it, and the part where they showed the rescue party lifting her body up freaked me the gently caress out for some reason. Like "oh, dude's lifting her up and they're...OH GOD LOOK AT THE CREEPY FROZEN CORPSICLE POSITION SHE'S IN." The sherpas who go up into the Death Zone just to get the bodies must have gigantic balls.
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Howard Beale posted:What's the difference between a 5.9 and a 5.10? "Just within" and "well outside" don't help here. I found this: http://outdoorswithdave.com/climbing/climbing-ratings It doesn't really help all that much... But it sounds like 5.9 is something that is at the far extent of a beginner, but doable. While the 5.10 is where things start to get difficult to the point that you would need regular training for quite some time. It also seems to be where it transitions from near vertical climb at 5.9 to vertical or past vertical at 5.10 and above.
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Gripen5 posted:But it sounds like 5.9 is something that is at the far extent of a beginner, but doable. While the 5.10 is where things start to get difficult to the point that you would need regular training for quite some time. It also seems to be where it transitions from near vertical climb at 5.9 to vertical or past vertical at 5.10 and above. That still doesn't really make sense in this case. Mallory did things that people thought were impossible while climbing. Why would it be out of his ability to do a climb like that? What does the Mallory's pipe route look like? I assume it must be comparable to what Everest has. Also, that's a pretty sudden jump in difficulty if 5.9 is doable and 5.10 is almost impossible.
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I've been wanting to play around with and look at a 3D model of Everest to get a better sense of scale, but I didn't think to use Google Maps until today. https://goo.gl/maps/D4ZCF There's the link, if anyone else is interested.
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Ok so indulge me for a post. I'm a minor cave diver, only a few dozen under my belt, my thing is being a deep ocean wreck diver. I know a few people Who have died . I train and study all the time: Am I a dumb idiot according to this thread
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Bishop posted:Ok so indulge me for a post. I'm a minor cave diver, only a few dozen under my belt, my thing is being a deep ocean wreck diver. I know a few people For taking enough offense to make this post yeah a little
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WtlwoX1YEmg No. Nnnnnooooooope. Nuh-uh.
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ive done a couple of cenote dives they were pretty fun
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Pingiivi posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WtlwoX1YEmg This doesn't even look cool or interesting or fun
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Minrad posted:I've been wanting to play around with and look at a 3D model of Everest to get a better sense of scale, but I didn't think to use Google Maps until today. What's up with that green snow? I'd guess it was just built from crappy photographs, but the green appears to be in striations.
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Bishop posted:Ok so indulge me for a post. I'm a minor cave diver, only a few dozen under my belt, my thing is being a deep ocean wreck diver. I know a few people Nah, a lot of the fatal cave diving posts involved deep dives. Normal scuba license goes to 60 feet and plenty of those were 200+. This is where it gets hairy, at that deep its not just the cave but the pressure that's deadly. That being said I do love diving but my sense of adventure ends right about where I need a flashlight
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pentyne posted:But it was her dream! Well, if you have not signed a prenup, and are reasonably well doing financially, divorcing from your bossy, know it all, annoying wife can ger a lot morr costly than letting her spend 50k on what you know will most lukely be her own funeral. I wish I was joking but it makes sense... she must have been a loving burden for him, assuming her last wise decision was a typical example of her behaviour in everyday life.
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Pingiivi posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WtlwoX1YEmg that poo poo doesn't even look like a cave at the surface
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Pingiivi posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WtlwoX1YEmg Didn't know a YouTube video could give me claustrophobia. Push this oxygen tank through a tiny cave, if you gently caress up and get stuck, you die. Enjoy the scenery.
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I'm going to go via pressurized space suit exo suit combo and waddle my way to the top with goatse strapped to the back of my EVA pack. And on the way down my sweet gold tinted visor is going to have etching with a big "LOL" on the front. Im surprised someone hasn't brought up a full pressure suit to go ez mode but maybe its all about ~*~tHe cHaLleNGe~*~. Also laughed at dumb canada woman. Whats her bitch idiot ex husbando being owned by now?
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Roki B posted:I'm going to go via pressurized space suit exo suit combo and waddle my way to the top with goatse strapped to the back of my EVA pack. And on the way down my sweet gold tinted visor is going to have etching with a big "LOL" on the front. Sounds like a good(?) Kickstarter idea.
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does anyone have the gif of the trek one has to make just to get to the base of k2?
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Noslo posted:Nah, a lot of the fatal cave diving posts involved deep dives. My deepest dives are ocean: when I go deep I'm mainly worried about the narcotic effects of my various breathing gasses. If I'm dicing a rebreather I want to make sure it's properly maintaing a partial pressure of oxygen that won't make me have a seizure and die. I'm also worried about being able to launch a surface marker, which I have to attach to a 400+ ft reel and then inflate at depth. If your reel jams while it's heading to the surface you just have to let go or it's an elevator ride to hell
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Bishop posted:ive done around 25 deeper than 200ft and a lot approaching that. Deep diving and cave diving are two somewhat separate things. You can deep dive or cave dive or both. In my experience a lot of cave dives are deep and long enough that we use mixed gas ( non air- oxygen nitrogen helium) mixes, and have to follow a decompression schedule, meaning you have to switch gasses and hang out at certain depths I mainly love reading about this sort of poo poo so I never ever have to do it, tbh! Oh, I'm also enjoying playing Far Cry 4 which is set in the Himalayas. It also has some bits where you go high-altitude and I think this qualifies me to cllmb Everest more than Yellow-suit. Oh, they also ran a pre-release competition in which you could win a trip to Everest and play the game on the mountain. http://venturebeat.com/2014/11/17/far-cry-4-fan-climbs-mount-everest-to-play-it-it-all-seems-so-unreal/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3pw_HOBiAc
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mookface posted:The Canadian lady's story is hilarious. What a bizarre trainwreck of one willful person. "For the sixteenth time this is stupid and you're not trained and you're gonna die" "Nah it's cool I'm willful" Canadian piano player just like 
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It's the partial pressure of oxygen, not absolute concentration which you fuckers should know, a la diffusion. There is not less oxygen by percentage.
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Well on the bright side now he can go climb it and be The First Canadian Pianist Formerly Married to a Woman of South Asian Origin who Immigrated to Canada and then Died While Climbing Mount Everest to summit. Really one for the history books.
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Rondette posted:haha, that is amazing. In his biography, The Wildest Dream, it says that the story about the pipe was probably made up. He just invented it as an excuse to climb that route solo. quote:The controversy arises from the fact that George climbed the route alone. At that time solo climbing was considered an unjustifiable practice, since anyone who fell would almost certainly be killed. Some climbers did it but kept their ascents secret. Later guidebook editors dismissed the story of George's ascent as apocryphal and refused to include it in their lists, but his biographer David Robertson, who assessed the evidence carefully, concluded that it was true. In retrospect it is most likely that George's description of the ascent was accurate but the pipe story was not. It may well have been that George had gone with Trafford to sniff around Lliwedd for fresh routes. Having set up the line of Slab Climb, he found that Trafford was unable to follow, and so completed the route himself. Because solo climbing was considered such anathema, George may have invented the story of the pipe to justify what he had done.
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