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Does this mean 16 people will die trying to retrieve their bodies?
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I would blow Dane Cook posted:Does this mean 16 people will die trying to retrieve their bodies? We can only hope
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May 24, 2017 13:34
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ugh undershot my death pool
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May 24, 2017 15:37
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Jimmy Hats posted:ugh undershot my death pool Me too *throws up horse racing tickets in disgust*
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May 24, 2017 17:48
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Even my 12 looks like it might be low. Anyone who went higher than 12?
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May 24, 2017 18:42
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Do we really have to do this poo poo again
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May 24, 2017 19:31
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Skarsnik posted:Do we really have to do this poo poo again What will be was, what was will be.
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May 24, 2017 19:59
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Skarsnik posted:Do we really have to do this poo poo again
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May 24, 2017 20:42
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It's pretty loving lame and this thread is good enough without it
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May 24, 2017 20:50
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nope
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May 25, 2017 02:28
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Skarsnik posted:It's pretty loving lame and this thread is good enough without it Okay here's the thing. I came within inches of my life falling off a mountain. I was heli-slung off, strapped to a spineboard dangling under the helicopter 1000 feet in the air because I couldn't walk and was taken to hospital in the back of an ambulance tearing rear end down this gravel road. It was 6 years ago and I still get flashbacks or start to think about what would have happened to my body had I gone over the side of the ledge I landed on and fell down a 500ft tall vertical cliff and it scares me to this day. It left me with big scars on my legs, hands, and head that serve as a constant reminder how close I came to dying on a mountain. It was a fairly traumatic experience. And I have taken part in every death pool in all of these threads. I believe I've earned my right to take part in a bad joke. If a mountain is famous for killing a ton of people, most of whom had no business being there to begin with, then people are going to discuss it. Our way has been with the death pool for years. Most posters don't sincerely wish for people to die, even if they say they do. This is Something Awful. We're here because there's something hosed up in our heads and our sense of humour is terrible and dark. It's what this stupid community was founded on. Complain all you want about it, but the death pool is always going to be a part of these threads no matter what bitch level it gets to. The only think more annoying than reveling in the death pool are the people who endless post about how much they don't like it. TL/DR: Shush, that's just how it is
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May 25, 2017 03:20
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that's a pretty badass road to get raced down as you nearly die All i've got recently is some road rash and bruises from eating poo poo on a mountain bike in an attempt to save a snake that was using the same trail
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May 25, 2017 03:29
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The people who died in the tent died of carbon monoxide from cooking in the tent cause it was too cold out . . .
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May 25, 2017 03:34
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jesus christ
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May 25, 2017 03:36
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Wow, I never even considered that. Zhumulangma is getting creative.
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May 25, 2017 04:05
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Everest No Filter is about to do they're summit push about half an hour ago, said they'll be back in 48 hours
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May 25, 2017 04:06
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Business posted:The people who died in the tent died of carbon monoxide from cooking in the tent cause it was too cold out . . . No one else instantly assumed this or lighting it for heat? There are people there who show up without having tested their gear, you shouldn't expect them to know how to use it.
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May 25, 2017 05:33
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It's not the celebrating death thing I have a problem with, I've been following this thread since the very first one and enjoy a good rich idiot falling off the mountain as anyone It's just the extremely dull wall of guesses and then accompanying 'oh I guessed too low' or 'only 5 more to go!' part of it that this thread suffers from Skarsnik fucked around with this message at 05:51 on May 25, 2017 |
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May 25, 2017 05:42
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Maybe we should just stop the deathpool entirely, it only causes problems.
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May 25, 2017 05:49
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Speaking of the Death Pool should be banned from first ascent to last descent. Assuming the last person doesn't become a corpse. Then 2nd to last descent.
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May 25, 2017 06:51
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Whatever system lets me dish out the most probations works for me. 
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May 25, 2017 07:12
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Didn't Nepal decide it was going to be more circumspect when issuing climbing permits? It doesn't seem to be working out very well for them, this year is kind of rough.
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right to bear karma posted:Didn't Nepal decide it was going to be more circumspect when issuing climbing permits? It doesn't seem to be working out very well for them, this year is kind of rough. Sure is, reminds me of some of a bad Sydney to Hobart (1998). It's a yacht race which used to have stunningly low safety standards for its competitors, such that many crew just didn't know how to operate a life raft, so when poo poo got real they'd make a ton of baffling errors that ultimately resulted in loss of life. Bad life raft, broke in a bunch of ways, but then flipped and then they cut the bottom out, and while I sympathise with the interview that answers the criticism with "Well, when people say that to me I just sort of take it on and don't say anything because I know that they weren't there and they don't know what it was like.", in the end of the day when you go out you gotta know your poo poo. Cutting out a primary piece of your life raft's buoyancy is an error of incredible proportions that anyone going to sea should even contemplate for reasons that are obvious if trained in life rafts. The uninitiated and untrained always seem to find ways to create unique case studies of what not to do when situations get severe. Or even how to make a benign situation fatal.
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May 25, 2017 09:31
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nsaP posted:No one else instantly assumed this or lighting it for heat? There are people there who show up without having tested their gear, you shouldn't expect them to know how to use it. I did but have lost the ability to tell which of three active everest threads I'm posting in. shame on an IGA posted:Is this everest's first Carbon Monoxide kill?
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May 25, 2017 11:31
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How come CO1 deaths haven't been a thing before? Is it because people have been using different kinds of stoves before or is it that tents have got more airtight?
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May 25, 2017 13:47
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what the gently caress there have been two everest threads this whole time?
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May 25, 2017 13:57
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right to bear karma posted:Didn't Nepal decide it was going to be more circumspect when issuing climbing permits? It doesn't seem to be working out very well for them, this year is kind of rough. They said they would be more careful. I guess they needed more money because they let that guy try to go for oldest whatever to whatever and he died.
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May 25, 2017 14:16
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Business posted:what the gently caress there have been two everest threads this whole time? Shhh don't bring the GBS spotlight on this the good one
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May 25, 2017 14:22
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I think if Nepalese authorities have just recently told that they are more careful with dispensing summit permits, it might not be this year that the effect is seen. If I recall correctly, the permits given for the 2014 and 2015 seasons cut short by the base camp avalance and other tragedies and the Nepal earthquake, respectively, can still be used this summit season in both cases, and unless I remember wrong this year is the final year to use them from 2014.
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May 25, 2017 14:34
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Josef K. Sourdust posted:BBC coverage of the same story: This links to this in-depth article which is pretty good. http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20151008-the-graveyard-in-the-clouds-everests-200-dead-bodies I wish BBC made a similar piece about us, posters ITT. "The Death Count is one of the things that got me interested in this thread," says Doctor Malaver, one of the posters who never climbed above 1.000 m. "I also liked pretty pictures so I followed the thread from GBS to its current location, " he recounts from his dusty but cozy apartment.
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May 25, 2017 14:52
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Now Nepal is disputing that four people died in a tent. http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/05/24/529855463/everest-death-toll-rises-to-10-this-season-after-4-more-climbers-found-dead
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May 25, 2017 16:13
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Josef K. Sourdust posted:How come CO1 deaths haven't been a thing before? Is it because people have been using different kinds of stoves before or is it that tents have got more airtight? Most people know about the issue of CO poisoning and run their stoves outside the tent or take steps to ensure there's some kind of ventilation happening. These guys apparently didn't.
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May 25, 2017 21:26
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gohuskies posted:Most people know about the issue of CO poisoning and run their stoves outside the tent or take steps to ensure there's some kind of ventilation happening. These guys apparently didn't.  The summit to death ratio is poor but Australia has one more hidden killer: quote:There have been at least 35 deaths relating to recreational climbing since such incidents began being recorded Uluru The schadenfreude is that the traditional owners ask people not to climb the rock for culturally sensitive reasons, so to die on the rock you have to be a completely insensitive loving idiot. Even worse, dying on the rock amounts to a desecration of a sacred place and means more people have to climb the loving rock to bring the bodies back (Dingoes have been known to chew on fall victims).
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May 26, 2017 01:45
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My mountains have incredibly diverse causes of death. There are many different ways to fall. In the past few years there's been several scramblers, rock climbers not tying knots in the ends of their ropes  , alpinists falling into crevasses, and uncontrollable glissades, and freesoloers found the next day by hikers because they went by themselves. There's been a few river and lake deaths where people fall in while kayaking or canoeing or walking on ice. BASE jumpers are on the increase. Every winter people get swept away in avalanches, usually triggered by them. Bear attacks happen sometimes, but I think there's only been one fatality in the last 5 years. Then of course there's car accidents and sometimes a murder because some of the biggest highways in the country pass through. I think someone got hit by a train too. That's the problem with a highly accessible yet still seriously dangerous mountain range. It's easy for people to go in and die at a high rate.All of these stories get posted about by public safety sections on social media to hopefully prevent a repeat incident through education.
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Cartoon posted:Uluru That's a convenient religious doctrine. We'll lease our holy ground to the government and we'll suggest to people not to climb, despite that there's a chain specifically for that purpose. So we get the money AND we're clean before the god/s because hey we placed the sign not our fault if they climb, right?
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May 26, 2017 10:44
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Doctor Malaver posted:That's a convenient religious doctrine. We'll lease our holy ground to the government and we'll suggest to people not to climb, despite that there's a chain specifically for that purpose. So we get the money AND we're clean before the god/s because hey we placed the sign not our fault if they climb, right? lol
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May 26, 2017 10:53
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Doctor Malaver posted:That's a convenient religious doctrine. We'll lease our holy ground to the government and we'll suggest to people not to climb, despite that there's a chain specifically for that purpose. So we get the money AND we're clean before the god/s because hey we placed the sign not our fault if they climb, right? Leases can come with conditions, or have you never rented anything in your life? If the owner tells you to get off their property, maybe you should just do that, regardless of their reasons.
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May 26, 2017 11:02
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Doctor Malaver posted:That's a convenient religious doctrine. We'll lease our holy ground to the government and we'll suggest to people not to climb, despite that there's a chain specifically for that purpose. So we get the money AND we're clean before the god/s because hey we placed the sign not our fault if they climb, right? Maybe Australia has had even up to today, a complicated and unpleasant relationship with it's indigenous people. Or maybe the Aboriginal people believe that their doctrine doesn't necessarily mean others can't do what the please. But I suppose that's pretty convenient.
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May 26, 2017 11:18
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Dongsturm posted:Leases can come with conditions, or have you never rented anything in your life? Oh I do rent out an apartment. The lease says "Rent has to be paid by XY of each month", it doesn't say "Please consider paying rent by XY of each month".
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the snapchat guys are leaving soon for the summit. I am rooting for them because they are doing hard mode without oxygen tanks and it seems like hell
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