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ChaseSP posted:K2 is on the Pakistan/China border. It's not part of the Himalayas at all. Yeah there's still Sherpas that climb K2 though. From Wikipedia, "On July 26, 2014, Pasang Lhamu Sherpa, Dawa Yangzum Sherpa, and Maya Sherpa crested the 28,251-foot (8,611-meter) summit of K2, the second highest mountain in the world. In doing so, the three Nepali women have become the first all-female team to climb what many mountaineers consider a much tougher challenge than Everest. The feat was announced in climbing circles as a breakthrough achievement for women in high-altitude mountaineering. Only 18 of the 376 people who have summited K2 have been women." You're right that officially, geographers and the locals refer to the Karakorum mountains (and the Hindu Kush) as being separate from the Himalaya, but they're part of the same uplifted massif formed from the Indian subcontinent crashing into Asia. I tend to just consider the entire sweep as "the Himalaya" and apparently there's a term for it: the "Hindu Kush Himalayan Region" or HKH.
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Why we laugh at Everest death: it's the closest thing we have to real life Mortal Kombat
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Alan Smithee posted:Why we laugh at Everest death: it's the closest thing we have to real life Mortal Kombat And it's so much better than it's idiot brother: MK2.
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pemba gyalje sherpa deserves every mountaineering medal for what he managed on k2
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Rondette, here is the updated DEATH POOL count list for the OP. I've having trouble finding dates for when the 2016 Everest climbing season officially starts. Most attempts are in April-May, so perhaps we should close entries maybe end of February or sometime in March. Also I'm not sure what to do about guessed numbers with more than three goons.   UPDATED DEATH POOL ENTRY COUNT As of February 6, 2016 -1 stab, elwood 0 Literally Kermit, Pvt Dancer, PostNouveau, Minrad, Mnoba -1+1 Robo Reagan (Mom dies but baby lives) 1 CaptainOblivious, Fumble 2 empty baggie, Cojawfee 3 Troublemaker, Shinjobi, Alan Smithee 4 The Light Eternal, StoneOfShame, gannyGrabber, Vape Bag 4.5 Popeahuntis 5 Microwaves Mom, Cliff Racer 6 Rondette, bradzilla, koreban 7 Anya, Vintimus Prime, The French Army!, 8 Electrical Fire, Nuggan, ranbo das, sesame_samuel_ 9 SaNChEzZ, SteveVizsla, ALL-PRO SEXMAN (“between 8 and 13”), Rolo 10 Quinctia, Shwqa, Hogge Wild, Jonesy (7 westerners and 3 sherpas) 11 Robo Reagan, Bob Loblaw, Amgard, GiantAmazonianOtter, SLICK GOKU BABY, Ziggy Starfucker 12 slinky triscuits, Dr.Smasher 13 Crusty Nutsack, Leperflesh 14 Tambaloneus, Dead Precedents, Cuckoo 15 Xibanya, Lasca 16 Comrade Koba, LongDarkNight 17 Day Man, BlueBlazer, Quantum Finger, twit666 18 BisonDollah, Picnic Princess 19 Nostalgia4Butts, Carl Seitan 20 Teddybear (“smallest available positive integer”) 21 Cymoril 22 Stars War 23 Nether Postlude 24 Cthulu Carl, pr0k 25 Arcsquad12 26 meiram 27 MorgaineDax 28 ChrisHansen, Mihai Zetta, c0ldfuse 30 Cowman, h3r0n (bonus option: LL Bean) 31 IKillForPie 33 RCarr 34 a messed up horse 35 mike12345 37 Anoia 39 DerekSmartymans 42 blowfish (bonus option: execution), Random Hajile (bonus option: explosion) 69 Nooner 88 tentative8e8op 162 Happy Hedonist 666 soy 42069666 ghostter Mtn The Goatfather All Chinatown, Mega64
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Last time, those who guessed a number already full had to take another guess.
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OP: I'll take the 29 dead slot
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Saving from the last thread I'll go for 38 for the deathpool for 2016.
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I'm always a big fan of Touching the Void. It's not Everest, it's not about famous people, but it's goddamn amazing. Should be on Netflix I hope. Put me down for 32 souls. Chicken Doodle fucked around with this message at 08:19 on Feb 7, 2016 |
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Still annoyed that I bet 18 last year but never got put in the official list, and then found out I kinda won til the other few people showed up dead.  Putting in 23 for this year. Between the mountain's growing instability due to global warming, the potential glut of thwarted people from the past two years, and the growing appeal that the various books/shows/films have generated, it seems we might be poised to see a new record in terms of climber numbers and disaster. Note: I actually hope no one dies, especially the sherpas 
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Ars Arcanum posted:Note: I actually hope no one dies, especially the sherpas I only want rich white people to die on the mountain.
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I imagine he was hearing that playing unendingly
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Please put me down for 21 - the mountain is old enough to drink (the blood of the rich and foolish)
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tentative8e8op posted:I imagine he was hearing that playing unendingly I love this thread.
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tentative8e8op posted:I imagine he was hearing that playing unendingly Perfect. Thankyou.
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Everest  I'm betting deaths this year of a mere 4. One year to lull everyone back in, then next year the mountain god gets truly angry. Like 3 figure angry.
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To the pressure suit: there's no way you'd avoid tearing a hole in it. Then you'd die really fast I think.
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Cojawfee posted:I only want rich white people to die on the mountain.
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Cojawfee posted:I only want rich white people to die on the mountain. I admit I hate dead people a lot, but if someone has to be a dead person, I'm the most Ok with it being a rich white stupid one.
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I just watched the Summit and it was v sad and I hope no one dies.
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fuctifino posted:Saving from the last thread Now get the same image with the earthquake shake on it.
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I'll take the smallest positive integer that's left. Edit: 29! Ahh Ahh Ahh 
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I'll take straight 50 on the death count. Do deaths at Base Camp count?
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Arcsquad12 posted:Now get the same image with the earthquake shake on it.  It was followed shortly afterwards by this: 
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Deadly Mongoose posted:I'll take straight 50 on the death count. oh god, are we gonna have to start doing boundary maps?! Base Camp counts as far as I am concerned.
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as far as I am concerned anyone who has paid up
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I hope none of the sherpas inside the restaurant got hurt
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fuctifino posted:Saving from the last thread 
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We're all going to hell but it's not like that's news. I just wonder if this year is the "no I've been kept away enough you can't stop me" rush or if that'll be next year. Imagine rich jerks shoving their way to be the next to die.
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Somehow this thread always leads to the best diversions. It's slow at the beginning and picks up speed during climbing season.
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Icarus flew to the sun. had his wings melt and fell onto Everest, had his wings freeze again. put me down for 13 dead.
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Rondette posted:oh god, are we gonna have to start doing boundary maps?! Base Camp counts as far as I am concerned. Excellent. I don't want any more Sherpa death so I am hoping for no avalanches but instead a drunken brawl at base camp between two foreign climbing parties. And then they all fall into a crevasse or something.
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Sherpas are the real heroes of this mountain climbing stuff. None of these mountain climbers would have even had a chance if they didn't have all these people helping them. Like not even the dumb rich people, everyone who goes there has to rely on the Sherpas. If Everest had a government I would vote for the Sherpa party.
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SHISHKABOB posted:Sherpas are the real heroes of this mountain climbing stuff. None of these mountain climbers would have even had a chance if they didn't have all these people helping them. Like not even the dumb rich people, everyone who goes there has to rely on the Sherpas. If Everest had a government I would vote for the Sherpa party. Up to base camp this is true, but there are some professional climbers who go the rest of the way without sherpas. Even the base camp supply can be done with helicopters with a big enough budget. But that's still 1% of less of climbers.
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SHISHKABOB posted:Sherpas are the real heroes of this mountain climbing stuff. None of these mountain climbers would have even had a chance if they didn't have all these people helping them. Like not even the dumb rich people, everyone who goes there has to rely on the Sherpas. If Everest had a government I would vote for the Sherpa party. I watched the Everest film recently (and actually FELL ASLEEP during the storm part) and I thought the real 'heroes' were the pilots who managed to fly a helicopter to an as unyet attempted height, at great risk to their own safety, to rescue an American guy who wanted something to tick off his bucket list. IDK why mountaineering films rarely work- I suppose the main problem is that none of the people doing it (In the Everest film anyway) are doing it for any cause other than Ego. It's kinda hard to empathise and root for people in that situation. It's a shame it was such a disappointing film, I was really looking forward to it. Rondette fucked around with this message at 20:10 on Feb 7, 2016 |
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Rondette posted:I watched the Everest film recently (and actually FELL ASLEEP during the storm part) and I thought the real 'heroes' were the pilots who managed to fly a helicopter to an as unyet attempted height, at great risk to their own safety, to rescue an American guy who wanted something to tick off his bucket list. IRL the helicopter pilot made two flights up to Camp 2 - they flew out Makalu Gau in the first flight, a crippled Taiwanese climber who was left out of the movie, and Weather was on the second flight.
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SHISHKABOB posted:Sherpas are the real heroes of this mountain climbing stuff. None of these mountain climbers would have even had a chance if they didn't have all these people helping them. Like not even the dumb rich people, everyone who goes there has to rely on the Sherpas. If Everest had a government I would vote for the Sherpa party. Reinhold Messner is the real hero, he doesn't need any sherpas.
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Are there any good behind the scenes stuff of how things like ueli steck records get filmed? since it probably fits with the thread alex honnold does some ridiculous stuff https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yn2tHcZEnF0 Jose fucked around with this message at 22:05 on Feb 7, 2016 |
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Jose posted:Are there any good behind the scenes stuff of how things like ueli steck records get filmed? Since he's going for records, I would assume he's climbed these places several times and he knows the route he is going to take. It's a simple matter of placing cameras and people along his route.
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