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Amgard posted:I thought K2 was too lightly traveled to have significant bottlenecks, and the main reason for its lethality was the steep inclines resulting in increased avalanche risk and greater exposure to high winds. If you want to know more about K2 and how dangerous it can be, I highly recommend watching the documentary The Summit. It's on Netflix (UK at least) and it's really good.
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Oh welcome back! One of my favorite threads of all time. Here's crossing my hand nubs that we get some people on the mountain before wild avalanches destroy the entire season. It's always relatively refreshing to see such excitement.  ps my count is 31 for this year Also, this is unrelated to everest but since we are talking about crazy sports(?) here, I always like to bring up mountain free running/climbing. It's one thing to want to climb a mountain with cables/safety equipment, but wouldn't you rather run up it instead for time records  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5Y0CmWze9I
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Yessss Alyssa Azar - the young Australian girl from Everest threads past - is making her third (3rd) attempt at having her corpse permanently adorn great Chomolungma http://www.alyssaazar.com.au/blog/ Because while YOU may be under the impression that Mt Everest is an immensely challenging treking/climbing challenge beset with unpredictably hazardous weather and unstable terrain into an atmosphere in while human life cannot survive, in fact, 
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Man people talk about getting away with murder saying there's no perfect murder but getting someone a trip to everest and trying to kill them on it? THat sounds like the perfect murder to me. 1 the mountain my kill them. 2 any attempt to screw them will probably result in their murder. E: Cruises also seem like a good place to kill people. Microwaves Mom fucked around with this message at 03:16 on Feb 4, 2016 |
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Microwaves Mom posted:Man people talk about getting away with murder saying there's no perfect murder but getting someone a trip to everest and trying to kill them on it? THat sounds like the perfect murder to me. 1 the mountain my kill them. 2 any attempt to screw them will probably result in their murder. Check out the book or movie The Eiger Sanction.
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Microwaves Mom posted:Man people talk about getting away with murder saying there's no perfect murder but getting someone a trip to everest and trying to kill them on it? THat sounds like the perfect murder to me. 1 the mountain my kill them. 2 any attempt to screw them will probably result in their murder. Also my attic. There are days getting up there feels like climbing Everest with this drat arthritis
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Microwaves Mom posted:Man people talk about getting away with murder saying there's no perfect murder but getting someone a trip to everest and trying to kill them on it? THat sounds like the perfect murder to me. 1 the mountain my kill them. 2 any attempt to screw them will probably result in their murder. Cruises are definitely the best. International waters, no body to find, no one notices for ages since it's so easy to lose track of someone on a giant ship and there's no cell phones... Even when there's absolute proof of a murder, it never gets taken to court.
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I think that climbing 8000‐m peaks without supplemental oxygen is dumb. I can respect taking harder routes, climbing in the winter, and things like that. Declining to use bottled oxygen, though, doesn’t make the thing you’re doing more challenging, it just makes you suck more at doing it. I’m sure it would be harder to climb Everest if you put on fifty kilograms beforehand or if you brought nothing to drink but brandy, but those handicaps aren’t laudable, they’re foolhardy.
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personally i do all my mountain-climbing with a helicopter
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Platystemon posted:I think that climbing 8000‐m peaks without supplemental oxygen is dumb. Also, it's a complete crap-shoot as to whether you are able to handle high-altitudes. You can be the fittest Ussain Bolt athlete out there but your body just might not be able to handle high altitudes. It's totally arbitrary. Interestingly, women tend to do better at high altitudes. http://www.bodyresults.com/e2r_fuelusage.asp
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SteveVizsla posted:Cruises are definitely the best. International waters, no body to find, no one notices for ages since it's so easy to lose track of someone on a giant ship and there's no cell phones... Even when there's absolute proof of a murder, it never gets taken to court. and everyone is piss drunk. Still I like the idea of murdering people on Everest as this is the everest thread.
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Easiest way as I see it would be to replace one of their oxygen tanks with a tank of nitrous oxide. They wouldn't even notice they were suffocating. Bonus - take a spare for yourself and do whip-its at base camp to pass the time while acclimatizing.
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Serak posted:Yessss As much as we laugh at her because she goes for the I wanna be the first/youngest whatever to climb Everest and posts stupid 'inspirational' bullshit she's probably a lot more cut out for it than a lot of people and seems to recognise the challenges and dangers.
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Xibanya posted:Easiest way as I see it would be to replace one of their oxygen tanks with a tank of nitrous oxide. They wouldn't even notice they were suffocating. Bonus - take a spare for yourself and do whip-its at base camp to pass the time while acclimatizing. "Hey, uh, the bottle you just handed me says whip-its on it written in sharpie." "Don't worry about it, I replaced it with oxygen."
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StoneOfShame posted:As much as we laugh at her because she goes for the I wanna be the first/youngest whatever to climb Everest and posts stupid 'inspirational' bullshit she's probably a lot more cut out for it than a lot of people and seems to recognise the challenges and dangers.
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how did you people become like this?
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Faux-rear end Nonsense posted:how did you people become like this? the internet made me stupid
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Faux-rear end Nonsense posted:how did you people become like this? 6 years of Everest threads man.
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33 people will die on Everest this season. It is known.
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Alright well I guess if we're doubling up on numbers I'll go with 13. If we're not, then nevermind because all the plausible numbers are taken. Faux-rear end Nonsense posted:how did you people become like this? Have you heard of the Titanic? You know how the ship has become the most well-known standard for human hubris? Like, you just have to say "the Titanic" and everyone who you say it to understands immediately that you're referring to a historic disaster that was completely avoidable and that happened because of supreme overconfidence collided with incompetence, and the whole affair was salted with a hefty dose of lingering Victorian-values class injustice, what with the rich people getting lifeboats and the poor people getting to drown? Well, Everest is like if, after the Titanic disaster, thousands of people just kept on making more Titanics and blithely sailing them into a bunch of iceburgs, over and over and over, never adding lifeboats, never changing the design, never learning from the experience, and meanwhile most of their families and friends and co-workers and the media just praised them for their bravery and perseverance and ignored the enormous waste of money, resources, the litter of sunk Titanics accumulating in the north Atlantic, made movies about it, and the governing body, I dunno let's pretend it's NATO, kept charging an exhorbitant fee for Titanic sailing permits because the impoverished people of Greenland need that money pretty badly due to the ongoing injustice of enormous disparities of resources between the rich and poor countries of the world. And in this extended analogy, the people posting in this threads are the ones standing around at the docs going "hey you stupid fuckers, stop building Titanics, no you idiots don't get on that boat! It's gonna crash into an iceburg maybe, you might die, there's not enough lifeboats!" But people just won't listen, and eventually the crowds just settle down and start making bets on which Titanics are gonna crash and sink and hoping that it's mostly the rich idiots paying for passage that die and not the poor cockney-speaking ignorant bastards manning the engine rooms because the pay from one round trip voyage will feed their extended families for a year. And you, Faux-rear end Nonsense, are I guess just wandering up to the docks and seeing the jeering crowds and shaking your head in disgust at us, because I guess you're just completely missing the context and thinking that we're the ones with the problem, what with the death pools and the schadenfraude etc. But no man, it's not us, we're just posting on a forum. Kindly reserve your disdain for the profitable, established industry of "tour guide" companies who take rich people's money in exchange for hoisting them up a deathtrap mountain in order that they can experience a few days of oxygen-deprived delierium and tedious walking through snow at night strapped to a safety line while two or three locals whose economic situation is so dire that $20 a day is worth maybe dying for. Direct your scorn, goon sir, at the conga-line of starry-eyed Westerners who have convinced themselves that walking to the top of this mountain, for $60k to $100k, will add meaning to their lives, give them a sense of accomplishment they can achieve in no other way, earn them the accolades and admiration of their families and peers, and present them with a worthy challenge, none of which they can achieve in their otherwise apparently meaningless lives by doing much less stupid and normal things. Marvel at the incredible lack of imagination it must take, to come to the conclusion that standing at the top of a big hunk of rock is worth a ~10% chance of death and a small fortune, when instead they could dedicate their efforts and financial resources to accomplishing something perhaps less immediately spectacular to the casual observer, but in the long run far more worthwhile to all of humanity: like, say, joining a NGO and traveling to an impoverished third world country as a volunteer to help build clean sustainable water supplies, or going to school, getting some medical training, and joining Doctors Without Borders to travel to a war zone and save the lives of kids who got their limbs blown off by land mines. You know, the sort of personal challenge that takes years of training and dedication, selflessness, and raw human grit to face, the kind of achievement truly worthy of respect and admiration, an undertaking involving some degree of personal danger, a facing of internal demons, genuine human bravery. Redirect your sneer, please, for the people who actually deserve it, for needlessly wasting their lives and resources on a completely pointless and meaningless journey that directly endangers not only their own lives, but the lives of the people who they must hire to enable them to accomplish something that, if they actually tried to do on their own, would require decades of accumulated experience that they're simply not willing to go to the trouble of acquiring. Why, after all, should they obtain actual mountain-climbing skills, when they can just pay some very poor foreigners to do all the heavy lifting for them? Check yourself, oh goon. It is you, and not we, who appears the fool now.
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No, it's you who's the sperg. jfc
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Leperflesh posted:Check yourself, oh goon. It is you, and not we, who appears the fool now. don't sign your posts
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IKillForPie posted:Also, this is unrelated to everest but since we are talking about crazy sports(?) here, I always like to bring up mountain free running/climbing. Does anyone know any decent documentaries about the Matterhorn I should watch? The First Ascent of The Matterhorn  The First Descent of The Matterhorn 
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I'm going to be the first jobless, neckbearded, bald, white, American veteran to crash a titanic into an iceberg.
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Leperflesh posted:Alright well I guess if we're doubling up on numbers I'll go with 13. If we're not, then nevermind because all the plausible numbers are taken. Good poo poo
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tentative8e8op posted:Oh my god, I have trouble imagining someone moving so fast with some of those drops, but those views are breathtaking. Is the Matterhorn even technically difficult? I thought it's super-popular, but maybe not just all the way to the top.
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That Effort post possibly won't be topped entire season. /me golf claps
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haha yeah maybe that should just be the OP now.
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mike12345 posted:Is the Matterhorn even technically difficult? I thought it's super-popular, but maybe not just all the way to the top. It's not K2, but it's far from trivial quote:Today, all ridges and faces of the Matterhorn have been ascended in all seasons, and mountain guides take a large number of people up the northeast Hörnli route each summer. In total, up to 150 climbers attempt the Matterhorn each day during summer. By modern standards, the climb is fairly difficult (AD Difficulty rating), but not hard for skilled mountaineers according to French climbing grades. There are fixed ropes on parts of the route to help. Still, several climbers die each year due to a number of factors including the scale of the climb and its inherent dangers, inexperience, falling rocks, and overcrowded routes. The Matterhorn is thus amongst the deadliest mountains in the world. By the late 1980s, it was estimated that over 500 people have died whilst attempting its summit since the 1865 ascent, with an average of about 12 deaths each year. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matterhorn#Climbing_history
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Leperflesh posted:Alright well I guess if we're doubling up on numbers I'll go with 13. If we're not, then nevermind because all the plausible numbers are taken. you are loving insane
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Last Chance posted:you are loving correct
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I CANNOT EJACULATE WITHOUT SEEING NATIVE AMERICANS BRUTALISED!
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Leperflesh posted:Alright well I guess if we're doubling up on numbers I'll go with 13. If we're not, then nevermind because all the plausible numbers are taken. You could prolly just delete the really lovely line at the end and this'd be a pretty good post
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Nah, without the self-aware pretention someone might think I was 100% serious. You can't use florid language unless you deliberately make it over the top.
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elwood posted:As posted in the last thread: how will your corpse be known yellow fingers? neckbeard? also, OP add me to the deathpool with 10 dead
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Hogge Wild posted:how will your corpse be known He'll have a sign around his neck that says "DO YOU HAVE SERACS IN YOUR HOUSE?"
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I'm gonna release a patch for the game probably on Friday. I'm gonna put the death pool as it is by midnight CST tonight in the game as something accessible from the pause menu, so make your bets in the next six hours or you'll have to wait a few weeks for your prediction to end up in the next public build.
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Xibanya posted:I'm gonna release a patch for the game probably on Friday. I'm gonna put the death pool as it is by midnight CST tonight in the game as something accessible from the pause menu, so make your bets in the next six hours or you'll have to wait a few weeks for your prediction to end up in the next public build. What is this game?
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Faux-rear end Nonsense posted:how did you people become like this? I've had altitude sickness and smashed my skull on rocks. I am not well.
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