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Sorry I'm late to the new thread Rondette. If you're still taking bets, can I have my same side bet from last year? Fuckhead hypoxic tourist suplexes a Sherpa off the Kangshung Face.
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 UPDATED DEATH COUNT PICKS FOR THE 2016 EVEREST CLIMBING SEASON As of February 17, 2016 These green boots were made for walkin' -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, Sanguine 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, Velkest 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, Sanguinary Novel 22 Stars War 23 Nether Postlude, Ars Arcanum 24 Cthulu Carl, pr0k 25 Arcsquad12 26 meiram 27 MorgaineDax 28 ChrisHansen, Mihai Zetta, c0ldfuse 29 Switzerland, Bip Roberts 30 Cowman, h3r0n (bonus option: LL Bean) 31 IKillForPie 32 Chicken Doodle 33 RCarr, Romes128 34 a messed up horse 35 mike12345 36 Koil 37 Anoia 38 fuctifino, ZombieLenin 39 DerekSmartymans 42 blowfish (bonus option: execution), Random Hajile (bonus option: explosion) 50 Deadly Mongoose 69 Nooner 88 tentative8e8op 162 Happy Hedonist 666 soy 42069666 ghostter Mtn The Goatfather All Chinatown, Mega64 Sidebet: DumbparameciuM (hypoxic tourist suplexes a Sherpa off the Kangshung Face)
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Feb 17, 2016 17:06
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Nether Postlude posted:
Thanks! Will update OP
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Feb 17, 2016 17:16
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Originally it was each number can only be claimed by 1 person. I guess we did away with that rule? Can we change our picks now that this is the case?
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Feb 17, 2016 17:18
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There's too many people for that now. I say limit at 2-3. It's not like we win money or anything.
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Feb 17, 2016 17:20
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Having a solid reason to hope for the death of other humans is a prize in and of itself.
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Feb 17, 2016 17:47
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We can all be winners, as long as somebody dies on the mountain.
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Feb 18, 2016 00:51
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Tou get a drawing by me!! Btw guy who 'won' last fear, still waiting for your pic....
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Feb 18, 2016 01:01
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I'll put mine down on 22 dead or missing. I hope those poor sherpas are gonna be safe 
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Feb 18, 2016 01:03
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Put me down for 12, due to a base-camp tent fire.
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Feb 18, 2016 01:09
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Frozen Horse posted:Put me down for 12, due to a base-camp tent fire. That's cheating. Boo!
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Feb 18, 2016 01:12
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Serak posted:
Ugh. This is the kind of poo poo that almost makes me hope rich white assholes do die on the mountain. Self-absorption level = loving higher than Everest itself.
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Feb 18, 2016 02:00
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So what is the last year that nobody died on the mountain?
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Feb 18, 2016 02:26
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Alan Smithee posted:So what is the last year that nobody died on the mountain? What year did they start climbing it?
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Feb 18, 2016 02:28
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I would like to place a unique bet: that there is going to be another physical fight on the mountain this year. Someone is going to have their rear end(es) kicked on Mt. Everest. Bonus points if it's a tourist vs Sherpa throw down like the one that happened a few years back
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Feb 18, 2016 02:32
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Ars Arcanum posted:Ugh. This is the kind of poo poo that almost makes me hope rich white assholes do die on the mountain. Self-absorption level = loving higher than Everest itself. Almost? EXTREME INSERTION posted:I would like to place a unique bet: that there is going to be another physical fight on the mountain this year. Someone is going to have their rear end(es) kicked on Mt. Everest. Bonus points if it's a tourist vs Sherpa throw down like the one that happened a few years back I'd love to hear the story behind this.
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Feb 18, 2016 02:41
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Alan Smithee posted:So what is the last year that nobody died on the mountain? If the Wikipedia list is complete and accurate, 1977.
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Feb 18, 2016 02:42
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Mega64 posted:Almost? It was the Great Everest Brawl of April '13 http://www.outsideonline.com/1929351/everest-brawl-sherpas-tale
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Feb 18, 2016 02:43
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EXTREME INSERTION posted:It was the Great Everest Brawl of April '13 was expecting americans but not surprised it was Russians.
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Feb 18, 2016 03:25
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Let me be the first to say Go Team Niner. Death is our gain and those dirty even-number-pickers are a blight upon our one true death number. All hail.
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Feb 18, 2016 03:27
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Ueli Steck isn't a tourist though.
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Feb 18, 2016 04:10
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Yeah Steck is probably the greatest climber since Messner and the whole story sounds like miscommunication mixing with very high tension and general resentment from Sherpas due to the way the tourists had been taking them for granted over the years. Steck certainly wouldn't treat Sherpas badly and just happened to piss them off when they were already ready to snap.
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Feb 18, 2016 05:36
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theyre all gona die
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Feb 18, 2016 06:47
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I hope the sherpas eat everyone
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Feb 18, 2016 07:05
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Shinjobi posted:I hope the sherpas eat everyone
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Feb 18, 2016 07:16
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fuctifino posted:Saving from the last thread Here lies Shirya; peperony and chease.
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Feb 18, 2016 08:48
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Everyone of them. Every goddam one. From ennui
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Feb 18, 2016 08:59
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Sherpas don't get ennui. They got like real problems and poo poo
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Feb 19, 2016 00:10
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Seconding a reading list. Just finished Into Thin Air, and don't really get the Krakauer hate. Yeah he speculates a lot about motivations, but is anybody really going to argue that grumpy russian dude abandoned his clients and hosed off back to Camp 4 so he could drink tea and plan for their rescue?
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Feb 19, 2016 20:53
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He went back to his camp, rested, went back up and saved his climbers. Everyone from his group survived the disaster.
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Feb 19, 2016 21:13
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StoneOfShame posted:Yeah Steck is probably the greatest climber since Messner and the whole story sounds like miscommunication mixing with very high tension and general resentment from Sherpas due to the way the tourists had been taking them for granted over the years. Steck certainly wouldn't treat Sherpas badly and just happened to piss them off when they were already ready to snap. The whole thing sounds like people Kicking Each Others Asses on the loving highest mountain in the world you stupid bitch idiot
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Feb 19, 2016 21:49
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Krakauer is a better storyteller than he is a historian or reporter. If I recall correctly, Jon also had zero humility when called out on it and refuses to admit that he might have sort of gotten it wrong about Boukreev. His conclusion is a pretty good one, that it is still an impressive accomplishment to survive an Everest summit attempt, but there's no good reason to try and you are a big stupid idiot for attempting it. Analogous to picking a fight with a grizzly bear, I guess. It's also funny that he is all  that the movie Everest got a bunch of the facts and characters all wrong, because his book did the same.
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Feb 19, 2016 23:34
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Cojawfee posted:He went back to his camp, rested, went back up and saved his climbers. Everyone from his group survived the disaster.  canyoneer posted:Krakauer is a better storyteller than he is a historian or reporter. Jon's detailing of the rise in popularity of climbing without oxygen, more or less as a response to running out of peaks and needing new feats to pioneer, was tragic. Akin to mastering football, so deciding any "true" footballer needs to play without a helmet.
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Feb 19, 2016 23:43
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Not... exactly. If you're climbing with oxygen and you run out while you're in the death zone, you are pretty likely to die. On the other hand, if you climb without oxygen, while you'll have a much harder time the whole way... you either acclimate, and then manage in the death zone without that danger from running out if you're delayed, or you don't acclimate, and never attempt the final summit. I believe there is a minority of climbers promoting this strategy of not relying on oxygen who basically make this argument. Probably the "best" way to go would be to climb without regularly using supplemental oxygen, but having a tank available as an emergency treatment if you develop HACE/HAPE high up the mountain and will likely die without immediate oxygen. (the real "best" way to go is to not climb the loving mountain)
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Feb 19, 2016 23:47
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The best way to climb is to have a huge, luxurious team of Sherpas to carry all the bottled oxygen you could possibly need.
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Feb 19, 2016 23:54
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Platystemon posted:The best way to climb is to have a huge, luxurious team of Sherpas to carry you in a canopied transporter like a king.
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Feb 20, 2016 00:05
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Platystemon posted:The best way to climb is to have a huge, luxurious team of Sherpas to carry all the bottled oxygen you could possibly need. That's exactly how Gloria Shah-Klorfine died, though. She had far more bottles than she could possibly need, except she used them all up way too fast and then ran out and died in a traffic jam on the way down, despite her huge, luxurious team of Sherpas begging her to stop doing that.
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Feb 20, 2016 00:11
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Don't forget all the oxygen she wasted standing at the top taking pictures.
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Feb 20, 2016 00:17
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Leperflesh posted:That's exactly how Gloria Shah-Klorfine died, though. She had far more bottles than she could possibly need, except she used them all up way too fast and then ran out and died in a traffic jam on the way down, despite her huge, luxurious team of Sherpas begging her to stop doing that. It was possible she needed more. What’s the point of climbing Everest if you can’t take a bunch of selfies at the top?
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that's why I want to chopper up like the frenchman and jsut take my sweetass time at the top
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