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AceRimmer posted:Yes, it is an excellent book. I don't think I've read a bad Krakauer book. Eiger Dreams is good too, and of course Into The Wild.
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Alan Smithee posted:I want to see this Everest movie that's hunger games except actually good and not for dumb broody millennial kids The end scene will be Jennifer Lawrence in a yellow coat and a sherpa threatening to eat a kill dose of everestberries, then she dies from oxygen deprivation and the sherpa turns to the camera and grins as he drops the turds from his hands and walks back down.
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May 30, 2016 01:28
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I think the one key in the '96 disaster is why Rob didn't adhere to his own turn around time? A lot of the climbers that got caught were from his team, let alone him getting stuck with Doug
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 media just cant stop milking this story.The Melbourne university lecturer died as she attempted to descend the mountain after being stricken with altitude sickness. "I asked, 'Do you mind if I go on?' and she said … 'Yes you go on, I'll wait for you here'," her husband Robert Gropel told Channel Seven's Sunday Night program. "I didn't want to separate from her, I wanted her to keep going," he said. "I also understood that she was just very exhausted … From that position, the summit did not look that far. "When I made it to the summit of Everest, it wasn't special for me because I didn't have her there. "I just ran up and down and it didn't mean anything to me, because we do everything together. "Everything else we did together was much more special." When asked if he blamed himself for his wife's death, Mr Gropel said "of course".
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May 30, 2016 01:32
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$25000 well spent.
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Vintimus Prime posted:I think the one key in the '96 disaster is why Rob didn't adhere to his own turn around time? A lot of the climbers that got caught were from his team, let alone him getting stuck with Doug hypoxia is a hell of a thing
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May 30, 2016 02:22
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Mega64 posted:$25000 well spent. Well really more like 50k for the two of them.
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May 30, 2016 02:24
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leaving your wife whom you swore to protect to die frozen and alone while you completed a high altitude tour : priceless
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Mega64 posted:$25000 well spent. Cheaper than a divorce.
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May 30, 2016 02:44
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FrozenVent posted:Cheaper than a divorce. 
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SynthOrange posted:
He left his wife to die on a mountain. That's metal as gently caress.
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May 30, 2016 02:54
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But they didn't die together Who failed whomm
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May 30, 2016 02:55
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FrozenVent posted:Cheaper than a divorce. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rziE39JWfs
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Ape Has Killed Ape posted:He left his wife to die on a mountain. That's metal as gently caress. Left her to die them climbed the tallest mountain in the world running around in circles at the top going woop woop woop
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May 30, 2016 02:59
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He's trying to play it off like he thought she would be ok, but he had to have known. Even through all the haze, some part of him had to be screaming that if he left her there, that would be the last time he'd ever see her alive. Dude straight up abandoned his wife to reach the top. The only thing colder than that was her body when he got back.
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May 30, 2016 03:04
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Husband eating hamburgers It's so sad Pass ketchup She loved ketshp This for you babe
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FrozenVent posted:Cheaper than a divorce. You're gonna start giving people ideas.
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Ape Has Killed Ape posted:He's trying to play it off like he thought she would be ok, but he had to have known. Even through all the haze, some part of him had to be screaming that if he left her there, that would be the last time he'd ever see her alive. Dude straight up abandoned his wife to reach the top. The only thing colder than that was her body when he got back. in his defense, she was a vegan
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bitcoin bastard posted:in his defense, she was a vegan Dude just wanted to eat a burger without getting an 8 hour lecture.
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donkey salami posted:Husband eating hamburgers Once again, vegans.
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SynthOrange posted:
Oh man. I watched the Anthony Weiner documentary thus afternoon and just now read this. Depressing! 
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Ape Has Killed Ape posted:He's trying to play it off like he thought she would be ok, but he had to have known. Even through all the haze, some part of him had to be screaming that if he left her there, that would be the last time he'd ever see her alive. Dude straight up abandoned his wife to reach the top. The only thing colder than that was her body when he got back. That's going to be awkward to explain to people at the funeral, while they're doing that "at least she died with her husband by her side" part he'll be "Well *cough* actually, I mean... i paid all that money and... y'know it'd be a shame to waste the chance... so y'know I sort of hosed off to climb the rest of the rock while she died, so she was alone.... but hey at least I asked her first it's not like people up those altitudes make bad decisions when they're ill right?"
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May 30, 2016 04:01
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As a divorce attorney, 25k is a drat good deal
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Zyla posted:As a divorce attorney, 25k is a drat good deal This Everest climbing thing is starting to make sense.
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monster on a stick posted:I don't think I've read a bad Krakauer book. Eiger Dreams is good too, and of course Into The Wild. Under the Banner of Heaven is loving amazing. Also depressing as hell. 
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May 30, 2016 10:24
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is Buried in the Sky any good? I just really like the title
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Zyla posted:As a divorce attorney, 25k is a drat good deal That plus once he's hitting on women next week after the mourning period he can totally brag about climbing Everest (while leaving his wife to die).
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Comrade Koba posted:Under the Banner of Heaven is loving amazing. Also depressing as hell. Yeah. I bought that after a recommendation from a previous Everest thread. I read about 50 pages and put it down, and never picked it up again
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Alan Smithee posted:is Buried in the Sky any good? It's very, very good.
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Zyla posted:As a divorce attorney, 25k is a drat good deal I mean, not to be an rear end in a top hat, but yes. Apart from his wife dying (which if he's not a complete psychopath should be the worst thing that has ever happened to him) he will be financially quite well off now if he's the legal heir of his wife (which in many common law systems is usually the case). Disregarding that completely, I know hindsight is better than 20/20 when dealing with hypoxic climbers, but I can't shake the feeling that after summiting six other challenging mountains, he'd know his own and his wife's physical limits pretty well at this point. Which means he knew that she was completely out of gas in the most hostile environment on earth, where exhaustion quite literally will kill you, and decided to leave his wife alone there and go summit instead. I don't know at that point if it would have been possible for him to save her by turning around and going back down immediately, but leaving her there is just cold as all hell. I don't think I could do such a thing in that kind of environment, in fact I think leaving someone alone in a very dangerous survival-type situation is the absolute last resort - when going for help. I'm not sure I'm willing to believe a man like that when he says he had that conversation before the summit, even. No chance of independent corroboration of that story. I guess I can't shake the feeling (and I'm serious now) that he's a egotistical, narcissistic rear end in a top hat with no regard for even his wife who decided that his personal glory was worth potentially leaving a person to die alone in the freezing thin air of the mountain. And then having the loving cheek to ask other people to finance the retrieval of her corpse off the mountain - probably just having inherited an estate of some value. Or he could be a great human being with some lovely luck, what do I know. My gut says he's an rear end in a top hat though.
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Nice piece of fish posted:he's an rear end in a top hat Just lie here while your body shuts down sweety, I'll be just over that next ridge.
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..."and as we commit her body to the ground, now finally recovered, we say a prayer for her soul and for her devoted... well, for her soul and her husband."
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Any goonettes here want to go hiking with me?
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He will better off since he can now eat steaks in peace.
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I saw a car today with a vanity plate that said VEGAN and at least 5 vegan bumper stickers. In that moment I understood why Everest thirsted for blood.
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Would`nt he have died if he stayed with her?The death zone is not a place you wanna hang out in for one minute more then you have to. Seems just as much a matter of survival to abandon her. Better one corpse then two. And if you`re gonna make sure you survive why not summit as well. This way at least the trip was not a ccmplete loss. I dunno if i agree that marriage implies a obligation to pointlessly die with your spouse.
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Baudolino posted:Would`nt he have died if he stayed with her?The death zone is not a place you wanna hang out in for one minute more then you have to. Seems just as much a matter of survival to abandon her. Better one corpse then two. I think 'Ok honey, you're not in a good way, let's go back down TOGETHER' would be the noble thing to do. Now he has the Pyrrhic victory of summitting Everest alone while leaving his wife to die.
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Rondette posted:I think 'Ok honey, you're not in a good way, let's go back down TOGETHER' would be the noble thing to do. Pretty sweet use of Pyrrhic victory.
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Baudolino posted:Would`nt he have died if he stayed with her?The death zone is not a place you wanna hang out in for one minute more then you have to. Seems just as much a matter of survival to abandon her. Better one corpse then two. Yeah rescues in the death zone are pretty much impossible especially if the person suddenly gets a bad case of HAPE/HACE during the climb.
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