Outrail posted:

Uh, how does he do anything with one loving finger?

GTO posted:

Wow, 5000m isn't even that high, relatively speaking. You can drive that high in parts of the Andes and Himalayas.

elwood posted:

https://www.engadget.com/2016/10/11/sports-illustrated-mount-everest-climb-vr/

Jose posted:

was it everest or a different mountain that a google exec instagrammed drinking coffee talking about how safe the mountain was then died the next day?

Cojawfee posted:

Dead on November 3rd.

elwood posted:

Or earlier.

Paramemetic posted:

Make sure you update this thread when you die so we can make the appropriate photoshops and so on.

elwood posted:

Everything is packed. I'm flying to Kathmandu tomorrow. If everything works according to plan, I'm in Lukla on friday, Namche Basar on saturday and Base Camp on november 2nd.

elwood posted:

Everything is packed. I'm flying to Kathmandu tomorrow. If everything works according to plan, I'm in Lukla on friday, Namche Basar on saturday and Base Camp on november 2nd.

OMGVBFLOL posted:

http://youtu.be/gvKs2VLmVnY

quote:

Frank had been sitting there for just over a year. He’d climbed to the top without oxygen, but he’d been so focused on that goal, he’d refused help from everyone else on the mountain, even as it became clear to those around him that he wasn’t going to make it. When he sat down to catch his breath at the base of the wall, he slipped into a coma and died. His death was a result of high-altitude cerebral edema. But it was entirely self-imposed. He’d succumbed to the one danger that scared me the most, the one you can’t see: the danger from within.

Frank’s face was masked by a twenty-centimetre layer of fresh snow. A year earlier, just before his death, he’d told me how he planned to stand on the summit with a banner above his head, asking his girlfriend to marry him. Now I’d been asked by that same girlfriend to remove his corpse from the well-worn path to the summit. She didn’t like the fact that people stopped to look at him on their way up the mountain.

elwood posted:

Update: I'm in Namche Right now. Still alive

https://i.imgur.com/s0ZlLmp.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/zoSnYgO.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/u0I2CPB.jpg

Shangri-Law School posted:

An excerpt from a new book about mountaineering by Gabriel Filippi. It's pretty sobering, though this part's blackly comedic.

elwood posted:

Update: I'm in Namche Right now. Still alive

elwood posted:

About 10-12 C in the sun and a bit above freezing at night.

simplefish posted:

Basecamp hike only, iirc

quote:

Junko Tabei: First woman to climb Mount Everest dies aged 77 Updated about 3 hours ago

The Japanese climber had been diagnosed with cancer and died at a hospital outside of Tokyo. Tabei reached the summit of the world's highest mountain in 1975, at the age of 35. In 1992, she also became the first woman to complete the Seven Summits, reaching the highest peaks of the seven continents. Tabei climbed her first mountain in 1939, when she was led by her elementary school teacher to the summit of Mt Nasu, her official website states. She later established the Ladies Climbing Club: Japan, with the slogan "Let's go on an overseas expedition by ourselves". "Back in 1970s Japan, it was still widely considered that men were the ones to work outside and women would stay at home," Tabei told the Japan Times in 2012. "Even women who had jobs — they were asked just to serve tea."

When she left on her Everest expedition, as part of a 15-member, all-women team, "we were told we should be raising children instead", she told the newspaper. "There was never a question in my mind that I wanted to climb that mountain, no matter what other people said." She had continued climbing later in life, and her website said she went abroad "seven to eight times a year to climb the highest mountain of each country". As of 2008, Tabei had climbed the highest peaks of 56 countries, it stated. Tabei was married with two children. She completed a degree in English and American Literature at Showa Women's University in 1962, and a master's degree in comparative social culture, focusing on garbage problems in the Himalayas, at Kyusha University in 2000. She campaigned for sustainable mountaineering and was chairperson of the Himalayan Adventure Trust of Japan, which is dedicated to the protection of mountain environments.

Picnic Princess posted:

That is loving awesome, elwood

Cojawfee posted:

What if you fall off the edge of town?

elwood posted:

elwood posted:

Cojawfee posted:

What if you fall off the edge of town?

DerekSmartymans posted:

Obviously you warp around to the other side of town. Jfc, play a loving video game once in a while...

VOTE YES ON 69 posted:

How many hours did it take to climb from here:


to here:

Aphex- posted:

How high is EBC again? I'll be going over Thorung La pass in a few days in the Annapurna region and that's 5416 metres. Any requests on corpse position if I succumb to HACE or HAPE?

Arivia posted:

Pants around your ankles, hand on your genitals.