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That starlit sky is just magnificient
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Base Camp  Overcrowded and disneyland like. I saw people getting there on horses.
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Nov 1, 2016 11:24
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Did it smell bad?
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Nov 1, 2016 13:52
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The summit looks pretty clear to me. Get to climbing!
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Nov 1, 2016 15:11
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elwood posted:I'm in Gorak Shep right now. The toilettes are frozen solid and covered in frozen poo poo. Strap frozen turds to your boots w/rubber bands. Die frozen in ski-jump pose.
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Nov 1, 2016 15:46
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Those are glorious photographs. Thank you for sharing them. (Is photography your hobby/profession when you aren't surrounded by frozen poo poo?)
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Nov 1, 2016 16:32
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Sony was focused on making a decent console without taking any risks. Nintendo was down to take a few risks but still make it a decent console. Sega was going full Atari.
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Nov 1, 2016 16:39
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Cojawfee posted:Sony was focused on making a decent console without taking any risks. Nintendo was down to take a few risks but still make it a decent console. Sega was going full Atari. Are you experiencing HACE?
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Nov 1, 2016 16:55
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Cojawfee posted:Sony was focused on making a decent console without taking any risks. Nintendo was down to take a few risks but still make it a decent console. Sega was going full Atari. What is the failed everest summit corpsicle of consoles? The Wii U?
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Nov 1, 2016 17:44
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Were you the one that won the farcry 4 contest? Took you long enough to get there goddamn
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Nov 1, 2016 18:13
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Outrail posted:Are you experiencing HACE? Phone app sometimes puts things in the wrong thread. 
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Cojawfee posted:Sony was focused on making a decent console without taking any risks. Nintendo was down to take a few risks but still make it a decent console. Sega was going full Atari. The hill start assist is designed to help prevent the vehicle from rolling backwards when starting on an incline or slippery slope. To activate the hill start assist, fully depress the brake pedal until the Slip Indicator blinks and you hear a beep. The brakes will continue to be held and the brake lights left on until the accelerator is touched or two seconds have elapsed since the driver has released the brake pedal. The parking brake must not be applied otherwise hill start assist will not activate.
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Nov 2, 2016 00:33
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It's crazy to think that somewhere between George Mallory and Sandy Irvine lies Elwood, already buried in a pile of food wrappers, canned air, canned sodas
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Nov 2, 2016 00:52
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He's probably been dead since the Gokyo ascent. The one posting is his faithful sherpa which took the oath of updating the trip on SA.
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Nov 2, 2016 01:05
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This will end of a "selife" of his frozen corpse.
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Nov 2, 2016 01:06
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pfft i could climb it
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Nov 2, 2016 01:52
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View from Kala Pattar And proof that i'm still alive, ugly and fat. elwood fucked around with this message at 19:30 on Feb 5, 2017 |
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Nov 2, 2016 06:02
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Arsenic Lupin posted:Those are glorious photographs. Thank you for sharing them. (Is photography your hobby/profession when you aren't surrounded by frozen poo poo?) Thanks, but no. You can't take bad pictures up here.
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Nov 2, 2016 06:12
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So how big are those chunks of crumbly ice there, the perspective is making me think they're small but I know they're not.
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Nov 2, 2016 08:24
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Cojawfee posted:Sony was focused on making a decent console without taking any risks. Nintendo was down to take a few risks but still make it a decent console. Sega was going full Atari. No no wait I got this Sony= Russell Brice Nintendo= Tim Medvitz Sega= Yellow Jumpsuit Canadian woman
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Nov 2, 2016 10:40
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elwood posted:Thanks, but no. You can't take bad pictures up here. i spent some time in the high rockies and yeah, as long as your horizon was close to level you were p much ansel adams i imagine it's even more so in the himalayas
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Nov 2, 2016 10:49
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Frozen Pizza Party posted:So how big are those chunks of crumbly ice there, the perspective is making me think they're small but I know they're not. Small car to large house.
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Nov 2, 2016 10:56
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elwood posted:Thanks, but no. You can't take bad pictures up here. Requesting a pic of the overflowing latrines as proof you can take a lovely photo up there. But seriously, can you get some pics of the less glamorous poo poo? Rubbish piles and whatnot.
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Nov 2, 2016 16:44
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I believe we were expecting corpse pics.
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Nov 2, 2016 16:52
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elwood posted:Dzongla to Lobuche You've got to be kidding me. I didn't know the night sky could look like this anywhere. Edit This reminds me. The thread has a little to much positive content and is a little light on the me laughing at people dying on mountains since it's been moved here. 
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Nov 2, 2016 17:05
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ZombieLenin posted:You've got to be kidding me. I didn't know the night sky could look like this anywhere. Really bright but looks like the same view you'll get on a boat 200 miles out to sea. And yeah, it's probably one of the things I miss most having been off maritime work for 5 years. Turns out the amount of light & pollution a city puts out really blocks what you'll see of the stars.
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Yeah, high altitude does some incredible stuff for the night sky. So does a lack of light pollution. The most benign ordinary night at altitude, even near a town, will be as brilliant as the most rare perfect night at sea level. Same deal as the photography thing; the rockies were incredible at 10k feet, so I imagine the himalayas are even more so.
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Nov 2, 2016 17:14
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ZombieLenin posted:You've got to be kidding me. I didn't know the night sky could look like this anywhere. It looked like this when I was near the Sahara. Unfortunately I didn't have a decent enough camera to capture it.
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Nov 2, 2016 17:16
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This is awesome, good job and great photos!
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Nov 2, 2016 17:17
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Maluco Marinero posted:Really bright but looks like the same view you'll get on a boat 200 miles out to sea. And yeah, it's probably one of the things I miss most having been off maritime work for 5 years. Turns out the amount of light & pollution a city puts out really blocks what you'll see of the stars. No poo poo! The sky doesn't even look like this out in the middle of a national forest in the continental US.
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Nov 2, 2016 17:18
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In all fairness, his camera is taking quite a long exposure. I'm sure that's the Pleiaides (M45) just above the edge of that mountain shot, he's resolving more stars than normally the naked eye is capable of (down to about magnitude 8 - see https://www.naic.edu/~gibson/pleiades/pleiades_see.html). So very likely you're seeing more stars in the photo than he could see with his eyes, although I'd believe that that altitude is giving him about another half a point of magnitude, perhaps. e. Side-by-side:   This is v<=8 on the right, and as you can see, far more stars are visible. I'm guessing this photo is going town to at least 9, maybe 10, which is definitely beyond human eyesight even accounting for the dark skies and altitude. Leperflesh fucked around with this message at 01:59 on Nov 3, 2016 |
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Nov 3, 2016 01:52
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elwood posted:Small car to large house. Perspective is a hell of a thing.
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Leperflesh posted:In all fairness, his camera is taking quite a long exposure. I'm sure that's the Pleiaides (M45) just above the edge of that mountain shot, he's resolving more stars than normally the naked eye is capable of (down to about magnitude 8 - see https://www.naic.edu/~gibson/pleiades/pleiades_see.html). So very likely you're seeing more stars in the photo than he could see with his eyes, although I'd believe that that altitude is giving him about another half a point of magnitude, perhaps.
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Nov 3, 2016 08:54
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Frozen Pizza Party posted:Perspective is a hell of a thing. It's loving annoying. You try and take a picture of something completely mind-blowing and there's no way the viewer can comprehend it. Take this photo I took standing at the base of Mt. Birdwood here at home.  This is what it looks like from a different perspective (not my photo):  The view looking up at the spire of a peak, that massive vertical face, was unbelievable. I was looking up the east face which is the left-hand side in this pic. There's no way of comprehending that experience in a 2D photo like that. So when you see mountain photos and think "Holy poo poo" just remember it's probably a thousand times more magestic in real life.
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Nov 3, 2016 08:56
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ZombieLenin posted:
Then lets go back to the roots. Sorry couldn't get a yellow jacket.  As for the night sky photo. That was a 20 or 30 second exposure. Nevertheless, beeing from light poluted europe, I've never seen a sky like that before. elwood fucked around with this message at 19:31 on Feb 5, 2017 |
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Nov 3, 2016 11:56
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Something's off...
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Nov 3, 2016 12:48
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elwood posted:Then lets go back to the roots. Sorry couldn't get a yellow jacket. lmao. i'm so jealous of you. And a coworker of mine was at base camp last week. god drat you both that's so cool.
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Outrail posted:
I haven't seen rubbish piles and trust me, I've been to India and know how to spot trash. All I can do is tons and tons of yak poo poo all over the trails.
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 (I couldn't remember the original source pic for the background so, meh.) Good work Elwood. Good work.
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Leperflesh posted:Stars and poo poo So in the space movies when they're looking out the window and there's a splash of a few dozen stars, should it instead be more like a metric poo poo ton of multicolored dots all over the place, or have they got it right?
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