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those graphs look like mountains!!!
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Jan 6, 2017 05:59
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Phht, those numbers go all over the place. You can't expect me to believe the number of climbers, accents and deaths are correlated. These things happen in cycles.
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someone should make a new thread. are there any mountains that are unclimbed because they just kill everyone as opposed to people aren't allowed to climb them?
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k2 probably has the most impressive list of kills, but no all the mountains left with no recorded summits are either illegal to climb or crazy super isolated in the artic/antartic
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Jan 13, 2017 22:28
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any of the famous mountains have ascents that are possible but have killed everyone then?
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Jan 13, 2017 22:34
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IIRC, there's routes up Everest itself that have killed something like 50 or 75% of the ten or so people who have ever attempted them. (With the reason for so few attempts being that they're so ridiculously dangerous that you only try them if desperate to do something almost nobody has done.)
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BobHoward posted:IIRC, there's routes up Everest itself that have killed something like 50 or 75% of the ten or so people who have ever attempted them. (With the reason for so few attempts being that they're so ridiculously dangerous that you only try them if desperate to do something almost nobody has done.) I believe you're referring to the north face ascent done in winter?
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DumbparameciuM posted:I believe you're referring to the north face ascent done in winter?  quote:Strong wind blows all the time. It is unimaginably cold. -Radio message from the summit of Everest, February 17, 1980
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OMGVBFLOL posted:k2 probably has the most impressive list of kills, but no Eh, there's loads of stuff left in Tibet and Kyrgyzstan at least. The ones left are either lower, like 5000m, or more isolated though. I know for a fact two swedish amateurs and a slovenian dude did a first ascent in either Tibet or Nepal last year, which was real climbing but nothing really extreme. There's also entire unexplored valleys and stuff in India and Pakistan where the military are really restrictive with permits, but there are a few serious mountaineers who do it every year.
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Syncopated posted:Eh, there's loads of stuff left in Tibet and Kyrgyzstan at least. The ones left are either lower, like 5000m, or more isolated though. I know for a fact two swedish amateurs and a slovenian dude did a first ascent in either Tibet or Nepal last year, which was real climbing but nothing really extreme. There's also entire unexplored valleys and stuff in India and Pakistan where the military are really restrictive with permits, but there are a few serious mountaineers who do it every year. Wow. Shows what I know. It's bonkers to me how huge and sparse the Himalayas are.
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Jose posted:someone should make a new thread. are there any mountains that are unclimbed because they just kill everyone as opposed to people aren't allowed to climb them? and maybe move back to gbs
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elwood posted:and maybe move back to gbs bring back everest thread it's almost death watch season 
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Minrad posted:bring back everest thread https://twitter.com/alan_arnette/status/820373186692972548 AceRimmer fucked around with this message at 00:01 on Jan 17, 2017 |
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Jan 16, 2017 23:58
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Here's the GPS tracker for the current winter ascent. I'm the guy to his left. 
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Jan 17, 2017 00:07
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OMGVBFLOL posted:Wow. Shows what I know. It's bonkers to me how huge and sparse the Himalayas are. If you're interested https://www.alpinist.com writes about stuff like that, they also do an actual magazine. http://www.alpinist.com/doc/web17w/newswire-xialongrezha Here's one article, apparently the maps didn't even have the right height of the mountain. http://www.alpinist.com/doc/web15y/newswire-sherpa-americans-climb-first-ascents-rolwaling-himal Three nepalese sherpas do 3 unclimbed 6000 m-peaks in 3 days. Pretty cool stuff!
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From the bootleg thread:
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Happy to find this thread. I've been fascinated by the extreme mountaineering on both K2 and Everest. Read a few books, seen a few docos and it never stops being weird or addictive. I think the documentary The Dark Side Of Everest probably sums up the madness: the morality of the death zone isn't settled, and gets tested every year, because the addiction is equally strong. Personally I'm on the side of Cathy O'Dowd and friends when they say it's mostly too extreme a place for altruism, much as it might be desired. The Summit, although about K2, illustrates much better the confusion when a group of people are fiddling about in 30% oxygen starvation and try to explain what happened later. Imagine the carnage if the tourists figure out where the real fun is.
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ewe2 posted:Imagine the carnage if the tourists figure out where the real fun is. Good news mate  ^ That was K2 basecamp last year. Also lets not forget Chinas plans to put luxury hotels on their EBC, they want it to be like the Eiger Nordwand or some poo poo. Watch the death tolls zoom up as the weak and infirm tourists brains pop due to cerebral edema just from being at base camp level 
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DumbparameciuM posted:Good news mate  Of loving course. I hope the entire loving serac falls on them. Just moronic, not simply not learning from Everest, but not learning from 2008, the utter failure to coordinate some of the best mountaineers in the world on a perfect climbing day and a traffic jam under the most dangerous serac on the most dangerous mountain. It does rather sound like the Chinese want to cash in, doesn't it.
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DumbparameciuM posted:Good news mate You can hear the mountain.... "Yes, come my children. Alllll are welcome, come to me..."
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That's exactly what I thought about.
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Annual Everest thread 2017: ALL GIFTS ARE ACCEPTED BY ARANAKTU
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DumbparameciuM posted:Annual Everest thread 2017: ALL GIFTS ARE ACCEPTED BY CHOMOLUNGMA
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redleader posted:Annual Everest thread 2017: ALL GIFTS ARE ACCEPTED BY CHOMOLUNGMA
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AceRimmer posted:Annual Everest thread 2017: ALL GIFTS ARE ACCEPTED BY CHOMOLUNGMA
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DumbparameciuM posted:Annual Everest thread 2017: ALL GIFTS ARE ACCEPTED BY CHOMOLUNGMA
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redleader posted:Annual Everest thread 2017: ALL GIFTS ARE ACCEPTED BY CHOMOLUNGMA
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DumbparameciuM posted:Annual Everest thread 2017: ALL GIFTS ARE ACCEPTED BY ARANAKTU someone who cares more than me needs to make a good op and launch the 2017 thread
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Jan 24, 2017 12:16
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Now just color that cast neon green and we have 
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Lunsku posted:Now just color that cast neon green and we have We need a yellow parka too.
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Lunsku posted:Now just color that cast neon green and we have A good idea is a good idea. Updated. ewe2 posted:We need a yellow parka too. Thought about it, but pushing my skills there.
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My immersion! Everest is the dark mountain in the back not the one in the front (thats Nuptse). elwood fucked around with this message at 13:30 on Jan 24, 2017 |
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Jan 24, 2017 13:18
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elwood posted:My immersion! Getting the mountain wrong is an error more fundamental than even I can stand - fixed.
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Jan 24, 2017 13:28
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That cartoon has summitted the peak of comedy. I'm dying over here!
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That is the most beautiful thing I've ever seen in these threads.
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http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-38728388
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How long until Nepal builds a meter tall pile of rocks at the summit?
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