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Drill it into the mountain a fee hundred feet blow the summit. See Bruce Willis cinematic masterpiece Armageddon for explanation.
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I approve of this plan, and not just because my bet in the death pool depends on it.
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Outrail posted:Drill it into the mountain a fee hundred feet blow the summit. See Bruce Willis cinematic masterpiece Armageddon for explanation. Probably a good idea, I do think dropping it from a plane is kind of unethical. But then possibly you could just drill lots of holes and slide the top right off?
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Jun 15, 2016 06:49
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But then less idiots would die up there, idgi
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Jun 15, 2016 06:58
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In 10 years China will give helicopter rides to the summit from their side. 3 times a day a helicopter will come rumbling down causing avalanches below it. The doors will open and dozens of rich Chinese tourist will step out wearing North Face jackets. They will tweet some selfies and each claim to be some kind of "first" on the summit. Then they will pile back into the helicopter to leave causing another avalanche. The Nepal government will ironically call it a gross exploitation of the mountain.
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DrPlump posted:In 10 years China will give helicopter rides to the summit from their side. 3 times a day a helicopter will come rumbling down causing avalanches below it. The doors will open and dozens of rich Chinese tourist will step out wearing North Face jackets. They will tweet some selfies and each claim to be some kind of "first" on the summit. Then they will pile back into the helicopter to leave causing another avalanche. actually and sadly yes
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unpacked robinhood posted:But then less idiots would die up there, idgi Maybe not, if the project were scheduled for the right time of the year... average it out
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unpacked robinhood posted:But then less idiots would die up there, idgi Yes but then K2 would be the tallest and more people would die on that.
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First death of the Karakoram summer season in Pakistan - https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=1034599923289067&id=100002172082389&pnref=storyquote:It should have been a dream, almost too good to be true. One of those that provide a thousand emotions and memories that last a lifetime. But yesterday the coveted first ski descent of Laila Peak in Pakistan transformed into an absolute tragedy: during the descent the 27-year-old alpinist Leonardo Comelli fell to his death while skiing close to the other members of the expedition Carlo Cosi, Zeno Cecon and Enrico Mosetti.
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Jun 15, 2016 23:22
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what's the point of raising the alarm once he's dead, recovered, and stashed somewhere safe?
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Tuxedo Gin posted:what's the point of raising the alarm once he's dead, recovered, and stashed somewhere safe? “Hey everybody, you may not have noticed, but this mountain is deadly!”
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https://twitter.com/alan_arnette/status/742066360415457280 There's hope for this thread yet.
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gohuskies posted:First death of the Karakoram summer season in Pakistan - https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=1034599923289067&id=100002172082389&pnref=story Italians you say? The other 3 killed him.
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simplefish posted:Italians you say? The other 3 killed him. "Yesterday it was your ski, tomorrow it is your ski, but today, it is my ski."
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The mountains over there each have their own god who will kill the unpurified non-believers on their mountain if you pray to them. Does anyone know the god that controls K2's english name?
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I think it’s neat that K2 is named after a surveyor’s designation because none of the locals were foolhardy enough to even get within sight of the thing.
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Platystemon posted:I think it’s neat that K2 is named after a surveyor’s designation because none of the locals were foolhardy enough to even get within sight of the thing. Well then all hail kaytoo. May his location and his victims go unnoticed for many years to come.
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Jun 16, 2016 06:28
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Look at me, I am the tent captain now.
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gohuskies posted:First death of the Karakoram summer season in Pakistan - https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=1034599923289067&id=100002172082389&pnref=story he french fried when he should have pizza'd smh.
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Isn't K2 pretty drat remote? As in 50mile hike along glacier valleys before you even get near it remote? + far from any settlement so quickish help and or anything else is not available.
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Supradog posted:Isn't K2 pretty drat remote? As in 50mile hike along glacier valleys before you even get near it remote? + far from any settlement so quickish help and or anything else is not available. I read a ton of books recommended in these threads, and if I'm not misremembering something, you need to hike for days from the nearest settlement until you get your first glimpse of K2.
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Pfft K2 real heroes climb Fitz Roy or the Shark Fin on Meru.
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mcustic posted:I read a ton of books recommended in these threads, and if I'm not misremembering something, you need to hike for days from the nearest settlement until you get your first glimpse of K2. Only poors use their feet to journey. Real people take the helicopter!
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The Balti term for K2 is Chogori. Balti is a proto-Tibetan language that is closely related to Ladakhi and Kham Tibetan, it did not evolve like standard Tibetan but like an English speaker who knows about language development can suss out a little Old English, I am able to speculate that while this is generally translated "big mountain," it is probably the origin of the modern Tibetan word མཆོག་ meaning "supreme" or "the best." Ri in Balti is the same as standard Tibetan རི་ meaning "mountain." So for your purposes of homage in a name, K2 could definitely be called "Supreme Mountain." This is consistent also with how deities are named in Tibetan (e.g. སྒྲོལ་མ་ Drolma, Tara, lit. liberation woman, བདེ་མཆོག་འཁོར་ལོ་ Dechog Khorlo, Chakrasamvara, lit. wheel of great bliss). So if you want to do rituals to protect those dudes supplications to Chogori would be appropriate I should think.
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I think he wants Chogori to eat the people.
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Also I'm phone posting or I'd find it, but if you're into colonial English sensibilities, Aleister Crowley details both of his attempts on K2 in his autobiography. Googling his autobiography should find it, it's somewhere in the chapters 30s or 40s if I recall correctly and chock full of that delightful old world racism.
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Cojawfee posted:I think he wants Chogori to eat the people. I mean that's not really something I can provide ritual advice on as it edges into sorcery but I'm not saying it's not possible lmao
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Chogori mouth eat the eggs(climbers)!
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Chrpno posted:May I postulate for a moment, just say we placed a nuclear bomb right on the summit, ran back down the hill and pushed the button. How much shorter would Everest be when the dust settled? Maybe the Hiroshima bomb would only take a couple of metres off, but a brand new 2016 build would probably bust that fucker down to Ben Nevis/Kosciusko levels. The radiation wouldn't be a problem, no-one lives there, and it would probably make the summers quite pleasant in a couple of years. Is China, India, or the USA best qualified to take on this job? quote:The Muslims' big guns were on the south side of the range; they never even heard them. Their shells whistled over the stars, leaving white rainbow frost trails on the black sky. The majority of these shells landed on the massive white mountain to the cast of the huge pass, blasting it with one stupendous explosion after another, as if the Muslims had gone crazy and declared war on the rocks of the Earth. 'Why do they hate that mountain so much?' Bai asked.
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The Years of Rice and Salt? I didn't make it that far into the book, but I found the scenario very interesting.
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Chogori is a perfect name for a blood God.
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Da K-2? You don't wanna go down dat run. Dat run's gotta a history. 35 people have died going down it. Some say you can still see their ghosts up der. It was on dat very ski run that a group of students were killed by a wolf-boy who escaped from the mental institution. You see, that ski run was once de burial grounds to a tribe of vampire sherpas who ate the flesh of children with no eyes. Yah... a lot of history on dat ski run.
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Look where I was today.  
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why did she choose that as a bg again?
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Did we ever get the actual selfies she took on the summit, between the photoshop and the canada draped body ?
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what if the maple leaf pic was a selfie 
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Well in a week a start my 40 day mountain trekking season. 6 peaks : Musala (Bulgaria, 2925m), Vihren (Bulgaria, 2914m), Illiniza Norte (Ecuador, 5126m), Cayambe (Ecuador, 5790m), Chimborazo (Ecuador, 6268m), and El Teide (Tenerife, 3718m). Maybe Everest next year?
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LastCaress posted:Well in a week a start my 40 day mountain trekking season. 6 peaks : Musala (Bulgaria, 2925m), Vihren (Bulgaria, 2914m), Illiniza Norte (Ecuador, 5126m), Cayambe (Ecuador, 5790m), Chimborazo (Ecuador, 6268m), and El Teide (Tenerife, 3718m). 4 deaths and 1 goon summit, calling it now. Don't gently caress me LastCaress
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LastCaress posted:Well in a week a start my 40 day mountain trekking season. 6 peaks : Musala (Bulgaria, 2925m), Vihren (Bulgaria, 2914m), Illiniza Norte (Ecuador, 5126m), Cayambe (Ecuador, 5790m), Chimborazo (Ecuador, 6268m), and El Teide (Tenerife, 3718m). Sounds like hell. I usually just fly over em. It only takes a few hours if you do it that way.
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It's cool that LastCaress will be able to post here directly from the summit to blame us for his death. I don't think the earlier goons who died could do that back when this kind of thread first started.
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