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Rondette posted:I would if I could, looks like the UK cinema release date was back in December, and I can't find any sort of DVD release date. I would pay to watch this film. It looks like the Discovery channel will be showing it April 18th, it will probably be easy to find after that.
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cyberia posted:Something she mentioned was when she was climbing Kilimanjaro her water bottles froze when she was summiting. How do people handle that on Everest? 
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ChickenOfTomorrow posted:Re: Green Boots - the body isn't there any more; it may have been recovered or may not. See http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20151008-the-graveyard-in-the-clouds-everests-200-dead-bodies quote:That enclave, located at about 8,500m high and sheltered from the wind, is a popular resting point for climbers on their way back from the summit, who may sit down there to catch their breath or have a snack. “It’s pretty grisly that they named that cave after him,” says amateur mountaineer Bill Burke, the only person to have climbed the highest mountain on every continent after age 60. “It’s really become a landmark on the north side.” Still sad about the 2013 Ueli Steck incident. That was like the worst actual thing to happen these past few years. Real alpinists doing an alpinist style climb and instead they get some bullshit from some sherpas they wanted nothing to do with. I understand there are only 2 routes up and surely they got in the sherpas way but still, they are the only climbers aside from sherpas that really should be summiting everest. Heaven forfade someone should climb before the hired sherpas fix lines for the rest of the dullards. Also I just like Ueli Steck and hate to see a cheery bright-eyed guy like that get downed by something he totally didn't deserve.
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The one place the accounts all agree is that Steck's team was composed of grade A assholes, I guess you take what you can get when real alpinists are the genetic oddities that they are. So some caustic westerners were an easy target, but the more notable thing is that there is an undercurrent of sherpas getting super pissed about their situation getting paid peanuts to manage the revolving door of rich westerners. It should be interesting if 2 missed seasons has just made them desperate for that westerner cash, or else more pissed.
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I wish I could astral project myself onto everest during climbing season to laugh at people as they die. Hey, can we small UAV drones to fly up the mountain yet with ease? I'd imagine they might freeze  . It would be great to be able to pilot one up and just have comedy music playing as people drop dead.
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Microwaves Mom posted:I wish I could astral project myself onto everest during climbing season to laugh at people as they die. It would be hilarious to have a drone follow these idiots, playing "Another One Bites The Dust" as they succumb to a completely avoidable and pointless death.
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Just load up the usual suspects of counterstrike .wav files Nelson haha Sad clown horn Wilhelm scream Terran firebat Academy scream
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JFairfax posted:I like a nice cup of tea I wonder if its even possible to make a nice cup of tea up there. At base camp water boils at 180F (82C), and by camp 4, its down to 166F (74.5C). Nobody is trying to bake a cake up there or anything, but I bet not being able to heat water beyond "really hot kitchen faucet" temperatures must gently caress up or complicate the brewing of decent tea or coffee. And you'd only have a couple minutes to get it down the hatch.
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Alan Smithee posted:Terran firebat Academy scream You mean Ahhh! Real Monsters end of Intro scream  And don't forget The Price Is Right losing horns
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Sanctum posted:Still sad about the 2013 Ueli Steck incident. Shouldn'ta been kicking snow onto men at work in deathly peril, I guess! Honestly, if some tory shithead came to bother me at work I'd be pissed off too, and I'm not even in danger while I do it. It's not like they even got the beatdown they were asking for, anyway.
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Alan Smithee posted:Just load up the usual suspects of counterstrike .wav files "HUMILIATION!" And if we get a really nice avalanche: "M-M-M-MONSTER KILL! "
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zedprime posted:The one place the accounts all agree is that Steck's team was composed of grade A assholes, I guess you take what you can get when real alpinists are the genetic oddities that they are. So some caustic westerners were an easy target, but the more notable thing is that there is an undercurrent of sherpas getting super pissed about their situation getting paid peanuts to manage the revolving door of rich westerners. It should be interesting if 2 missed seasons has just made them desperate for that westerner cash, or else more pissed. Steck by all accounts seems like a nice person, partnering up with a sherpa without an expedition for his Everest summit without oxygen etc. He mentioned that this was one of the things that hurt him the most, that guy was in the mob and didn't seem to him to be trying to help defuse the situation. Moro might be a bit of a personality (he was the one swearing during the incident) but he also pilots his own helicopter to rescue people in the Himalayas and has abandoned climbs to aid rescues. I don't know much about Griffith. What do you base your opinion on?
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Syd Midnight posted:I wonder if its even possible to make a nice cup of tea up there. At base camp water boils at 180F (82C), and by camp 4, its down to 166F (74.5C). Nobody is trying to bake a cake up there or anything, but I bet not being able to heat water beyond "really hot kitchen faucet" temperatures must gently caress up or complicate the brewing of decent tea or coffee. And you'd only have a couple minutes to get it down the hatch. Those temperatures are fine for green tea. Alternatively, use a pressure vessel.
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Bensa posted:Steck by all accounts seems like a nice person, partnering up with a sherpa without an expedition for his Everest summit without oxygen etc. He mentioned that this was one of the things that hurt him the most, that guy was in the mob and didn't seem to him to be trying to help defuse the situation. Moro might be a bit of a personality (he was the one swearing during the incident) but he also pilots his own helicopter to rescue people in the Himalayas and has abandoned climbs to aid rescues. I don't know much about Griffith. What do you base your opinion on?
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We need the seinfeld music too when they tell a person they have to turn back or they'll die from not having enough o2 tanks.
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Moro thought it would be appropriate to greet the Sherpas with words that mean pretty much "I hosed your mother". They kind of disagreed, due to their cultural upbringing, and that was when the violence started. I am surprised he got out of it alive.
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We can have the drones dump buckets of slime on those who make it to the top and then they can take a piece of everest home with them too
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Needs more confetti shooting and boulders crashing down.
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The mountain needs speakers at appropriate intervals playing Eye of the Tiger ad. infinitum. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btPJPFnesV4 e: And muffled booms every time a tribute is lost. Outrail fucked around with this message at 15:16 on Apr 9, 2016 |
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Apr 9, 2016 15:14
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is a carabiner gently caress up related to Everest enough to warrant posting this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZFh-bcCfwQ look in the bot left
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Hey thread, so a couple of weeks ago, one of the various military support organizations showed the movie Everest here in Djibouti, and Chris Klinke and Tonya Riggs came to talk after the film as guest speakers afterwards. I actually got to spend a lot of time bullshitting about Everest and poo poo with both of them. It was actually pretty loving cool; I work in satellite communications and Chris was actually pretty curious about some of the things that I knew. Apparently, communications are terrible in mountains -- who knew?! He talked about how his ordeal with his satphone on K2 in 2008, and he was relieved to find out there were simple tools they can use/purchase to make communicating on the mountains a lot better. Tonya was very talkative and we enjoyed a long talk about parallels in soldiers who seek multiple deployments and mountain junkies. She was very down to earth when she got out of her "talking like a Toastmaster" voice. The most interesting point for me when talking to her was her genuine regret about seeing dead people on the mountain -- her expedition summited the same year David Sharp and a poo poo load of other climbers died on the NE side, and three Sherpas died in an avalanche on the Nepal side. She said that she tried not to think about it then, especially as her expedition when right by David Sharp's frozen popsicle-rear end, and that she felt regret about that aspect of that. She said when she turned around and started working down, knowing she was passing people who may have died that week, it was her primary motivation to keep going, but she doesn't like talking about that in the paid speeches she gives. I guess "I want to trudge on sheerly to not be a hike-sicle," doesn't sell well to middle managers. I felt like I learned a lot about their mental state, at least talking to them in person. They seemed to light up talking about climbing and the unparalleled solitude one experiences in remote locations, especially when one can see stars in broad daylight, and realize their walking above where planes fly. I didn't feel as callous as I do about some climbers, as both of them were genuinely in love with the challenge and the beauty of it; Tonya was part of a sophomoric, yet greater gesture, and she had turned down another climb when she realized all the money in the world wouldn't walk you up Annapurna; and in the case of Chris, was actually humble enough to turn away when the climb on K2 was too much, and attempted to organize some rescue when things went really bad. Wasabi the J fucked around with this message at 22:20 on Apr 13, 2016 |
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Hooray!! The 2016 Everest Climbing Season has BEGUN!!! Picks for the 2016 Everest Death Pool are now officially CLOSED. (Rondette, feel free to update the OP at your convenience.)   THE FINAL DEATH COUNT PICKS FOR THE 2016 EVEREST CLIMBING SEASON As of April 16, 2016 "Smoke 'em if you got 'em"  Please note: Fractional counts were rounded up for statistics' sake. Between X and Y number guesses were averaged. Formatting of the list has changed slightly for the side bets.  Standard bets -1 stab, elwood 0 Literally Kermit, Pvt Dancer, PostNouveau, Minrad, Mnoba -1+1 Robo Reagan (Mom dies but baby lives) 1 CaptainOblivious, Fumble, Stoat, Langolas (3/5 rounded up) 2 empty baggie, Cojawfee 3 Troublemaker, Shinjobi, Alan Smithee 4 The Light Eternal, StoneOfShame, gannyGrabber, Vape Bag, Sanguine, Topher87 5 Microwaves Mom, Cliff Racer, Popeahuntis (4.5 rounded up) 6 Rondette, bradzilla, koreban 7 Anya, Vintimus Prime, The French Army!, inkmoth, Backweb 8 Electrical Fire, Nuggan, ranbo das, sesame_samuel_ 9 SaNChEzZ, SteveVizsla, ALL-PRO SEXMAN (“between 8 and 13”), Rolo, Outrail 10 Quinctia, Shwqa, Hogge Wild, Jonesy (7 westerners and 3 sherpas) 11 Robo Reagan, Bob Loblaw, Amgard, GiantAmazonianOtter, SLICK GOKU BABY, Ziggy Starfucker, a cyberpunk goose (10.5 rounded up) 12 slinky triscuits, Dr.Smasher, Frozen Horse (bonus option: base-camp tent fire) 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, Ceciltron 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 40 bucksmash 41 Cartoon 42 blowfish (bonus option: execution), Random Hajile (bonus option: explosion) 50 Deadly Mongoose, Sono (49 tourists, 1 sherpa) 69 Nooner 88 tentative8e8op 162 Happy Hedonist 666 soy  High number bets: 42069666 ghostter Mtn: The Goatfather, Doctor Schnabel Everyone: Chinatown, Mega64  Specialty bets: Hypoxic tourist suplexes a Sherpa off the Kangshung Face: DumbparameciuM Physical fight on mountain (any): EXTREME INSERTION Sherpas cannibalize tourists: Shinjobi, SHISHKABOB Boredom deaths: donkey salami Russel Brice loses a climber: DumbparameciuM TIM MEDVITZ totally dies this time: NaDy Nether Postlude fucked around with this message at 06:07 on Apr 16, 2016 |
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Chinese government denied a permit to the 12 year old kid: http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2016/04/12/yorba-linda-kid-denied-shot-at-climbing-mount-everest/
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Feeling so strong on my sidebets this year. To be a fly on the wall when Brycie found out that Medvitz is going to be back on "his" mountain this season, holy hell.
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Most of the Sherpas are probably greedy assholes in it for money anyway. It only makes sense that the mountain is just full of assholes. Their income is peanuts compared to Western guides but they still make like 5x-10x the average Nepal income plus summiting bonuses, so there's always gonna be a huge greed factor.
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gohuskies posted:Chinese government denied a permit to the 12 year old kid: http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2016/04/12/yorba-linda-kid-denied-shot-at-climbing-mount-everest/ Good. loving stupid idea to begin with. DumbparameciuM posted:Feeling so strong on my sidebets this year. That Russel Brice one is pretty compelling. It's only a matter of time. Also word on the street is that Annapurna's season isn't going too well: Final Summit-Bid is Underway on Annapurna, Majority of Climbers Retreat Just found this neat weather thing: http://www.mountain-forecast.com/peaks/Annapurna-Sanctuary/metar -- High temp today at basin (elevation: 4,130 m/13,550 ft): 5°C/41°F http://www.mountain-forecast.com/peaks/Mount-Everest -- High temp today at peak (elevation: 8850 m/29037 ft): -27°C/-17°F Nether Postlude fucked around with this message at 07:18 on Apr 16, 2016 |
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gently caress I want to make side bets is it too late? I say that we get at least another meat Popsicle to forever serve as a landmark to future climbers. Also one will die because someone stole his oxygen tanks
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I'm still in for the imgur flag draped on a corpse for eternity
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Ah poo poo I didn't know there was a pool going. Ah well I got myself down for 3
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gohuskies posted:Chinese government denied a permit to the 12 year old kid: http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2016/04/12/yorba-linda-kid-denied-shot-at-climbing-mount-everest/ Thank gently caress.
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Zo posted:Most of the Sherpas are probably greedy assholes in it for money anyway. It only makes sense that the mountain is just full of assholes. Their income is peanuts compared to Western guides but they still make like 5x-10x the average Nepal income plus summiting bonuses, so there's always gonna be a huge greed factor. It's hosed up that their best source of income is putting their lives on the line carrying rich white assholes up a highly dangerous mountain. I can't imagine they earn much more than your average Western office worker, who obviously doesn't face the same risks at their workplace.
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12-yr old waaah waah I can't go article posted:“We’re going to go to Australia in the summer and we’re also going to do some other mountains like we were thinking about doing the Three Sisters, which is Mount Adams, Mount Rainier, and Mount Hood." That's not the Three Sisters. Three Sisters is... the Three Sisters. The family being from Yorba Linda (Orange County nouveau riche) makes so much sense.
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He's going to have all of his limbs amputated and become the first human beanbag to summit Everest 
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Murder She Twote posted:He's going to have all of his limbs amputated and become the first human beanbag to summit Everest Metro ~six months ago posted:Nepal announced it’s banning disabled people from climbing Mt Everest. 
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That spoiled brat kid is in for a serious shock if he wants to do any mountain climbing in Australia! Our highest mountain is 2200m and is about an hour's chairlift + leisurely walk from the carpark. The last time I walked up, there was a stag party at the top - complete with 30 blokes drinking beer and the stag in a snazzy cocktail dress & heels combo.
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webmeister posted:The last time I walked up, there was a stag party at the top - complete with 30 blokes drinking beer and the stag in a snazzy cocktail dress & heels combo. That is the kind of mountain I would pay to climb. Thats how nature says "it is a good and cool idea to climb this mountain".
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Yes, Australia, the continent whose nature is renowned for being cool and good and not venomous at all.
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