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redreader posted:"I lost the use of one hand entirely, and only have one finger on the other hand. SURELY I'll do better next time". What the gently caress? Is this mental illness? I don't believe in god or any kind of sentient nature, but if ever there was a case of the universe telling someone to get a new loving hobby, this was it.
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It's a good thing that rock fell off, right? That was the big bottleneck?
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PostNouveau posted:It's a good thing that rock fell off, right? That was the big bottleneck? Yes. Less time in the death zone is overall good, and that loving rock was one of the few true gently caress you obstacles, and it definitely wasn't reasonable to try and push several hundred climbers up and down it in a day. As there's not a 10m boulder to funnel single retards up at 8800m, I predict were going to have quite a few less "stuck in traffic midday on summit, died in the dark on descent". It is now the Hillary Stairs.
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May 26, 2018 19:21
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No green boots cave and now no Hilary step,what's the point anymore, at least we still have the Khumbu icefall for now.
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May 26, 2018 21:07
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It's now the Disney frozen Elsa ice slide and souvenir shop! At khumbu.
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Quixotic1 posted:No green boots cave and now no Hilary step,what's the point anymore, at least we still have the Khumbu icefall for now. Climate change is working on it, don't worry
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"Bizarre publicity stunt leaves Everest guide dead": https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=12059846 Why am I not surprised this involves Bitcoins?
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May 27, 2018 22:04
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Bitcoin was involved? They probably murdered him.
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Cojawfee posted:Bitcoin was involved? They probably murdered him. It's getting worse every time I read another report on it. They were "Bitcoin-like" digital "tokens", that are currently worth exactly nothing. But "may be worth $50, 000 one day". Or, y'know, be worth jack poo poo since they're on a hard drive buried on a mountain peak that wants to kill you.
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Buttcoins.
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May 28, 2018 01:30
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 I murdered a Sherpa, and I've never felt better!
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quote:Charlotte Fox survived a harrowing incident on Mount Everest in 1996 and became the first American woman to climb three 8,000-meter peaks, so irony wasn’t lost on her friends when the longtime Aspen resident died last week after apparently falling on the steep steps of her house in Telluride. drat, survive climbing Everest only to later die falling down the stairs at your home.
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weg posted:https://www.denverpost.com/2018/05/30/mount-everest-survivor-dies-in-fall-at-colorado-home/ There are no Sherpas to help you down the stairs in your house.
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She climbed two other 8k mountains, I'm pretty sure she was legit.
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Wtf - falling down a four story set of stairs in your house is actually kind of insane no matter what climber you are. But yeah, making it through ‘96 to get taking out by the Colorado Stairfall is insane.
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weg posted:https://www.denverpost.com/2018/05/30/mount-everest-survivor-dies-in-fall-at-colorado-home/ John Krakauer opens his word processor and begins Into the Basement
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Perhaps, despite the protestations of the Denver state government claiming the steps are exactly as they were, the steps had disappeared?
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Bobby Digital posted:John Krakauer opens his word processor and begins Into the Basement Can't wait to see who he blames for leaving the guy for dead.
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This thread has gotten me bitten with the wanderlust bug. Got a mini-vacation planned to hike Mt. Katahdin later this month, the first of my many future conquests before I die alone on a 8K gasping for air.
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Platystemon posted:There are no Sherpas to help you down the stairs in your house. Solo descent, no fixed lines, no oxygen. There's only so many times you can tempt fate like that.
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Val Helmethead posted:This thread has gotten me bitten with the wanderlust bug. Got a mini-vacation planned to hike Mt. Katahdin later this month, the first of my many future conquests before I die alone on a 8K gasping for air. 
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Val Helmethead posted:This thread has gotten me bitten with the wanderlust bug. Got a mini-vacation planned to hike Mt. Katahdin later this month, the first of my many future conquests before I die alone on a 8K gasping for air. Katahdin has some legit scrambles. You’ll have fun. I’ve heard it’s beautiful up there. Here was my view 
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Are you the first double amputee with a sign for a prosthetic to reach the top of that mountain?
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George H.W. oval office posted:Katahdin has some legit scrambles. You’ll have fun. I’ve heard it’s beautiful up there. Here was my view My friend and I want to do the AT so badly  . I used to hike the portion in the Presidential Range in Gorham, NH, every year.It's just such a gigantic undertaking and a logistical nightmare. Now I need to reread Bill Bryson's "A Walk in the Woods" again.....
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BaronVonVaderham posted:My friend and I want to do the AT so badly Do it! It’s a lot easier than people make it out to be. The “hardest” and most annoying part of the trail was figuring out how the hell youre getting to town and back for a resupply.
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George H.W. oval office posted:Katahdin has some legit scrambles. You’ll have fun. I’ve heard it’s beautiful up there. Here was my view Why didn’t you wait for that jackass to get down off the sign before you took the picture? 
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High Lord Elbow posted:Why didn’t you wait for that jackass to get down off the sign before you took the picture? The elements almost beat me. Since it was such an awful day no one was coming up and 5 months of work with no one there to take my picture at the very end was a huge letdown. I huddled behind a cairn for 45 minutes in the freezing cold and rain just hoping someone would appear out of the mist. Eventually I gave up and as I was mentally preparing myself for this huge bummer of not getting a picture at the sign another hiker came up and was able to take it. On my way down I saw no one else on their way up. I was one of 4 people to have summitted that day.
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Did you know you can turn cameras around?
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Cojawfee posted:Did you know you can turn cameras around? For a boring ol close up selfie I think not!
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George H.W. oval office posted:Katahdin has some legit scrambles. You’ll have fun. I’ve heard it’s beautiful up there. Here was my view Ha! I'm coming up from Katahdin Streams, so if the weather is nice it should be awesome views the whole way. 4 person total misery summit doesn't sound fun though, but it'd be a hell of a story.
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Cojawfee posted:Did you know you can turn cameras around? Some even come equipped with timers!
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You guys don't like it when you get the mountain to yourself? That's, strange...
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https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/03/us/el-capitan-yosemite-climbers-fall.html Jason Wells and Tim Klein fell off El Capitan this weekend. quote:Mr. Robinson said Mr. Wells and Mr. Klein were using a technique called simul-climbing in which both climbers are attached by a rope and move at the same time to go at a faster pace. They were doing this with a third person, a variation on an already rare technique that is “inherently riskier” than regular climbing, Mr. Robinson said. Anyway this is not comparable to deaths on Everest since these were very very experienced climbers not in the Death Zone and not exploiting Sherpas, I just didn't know of a better place to post it.
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Some cursory wikipedia browsing tells me that they are supposed to have an anchor though.
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Leperflesh posted:https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/03/us/el-capitan-yosemite-climbers-fall.html Disclaimer: I have no idea what I’m talking about, but speculating about things of which you are ignorant on the Internet is half the fun. I assume it is inherently more risky because the odds of one climber falling are lower than one out of two climbers falling. So if they are linked together, they are each doubling their chances of falling to a grisly demise.
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But there's an anchor. Or anchors. Lead places them, person in second place cleans. In theory, this doesn't seem any more dangerous that regular trad with someone belaying from the ground in practice, anchors are trash and falling on them pulls them out way more than is reasonable for sane people
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^^I should refresh a thread before posting.Leperflesh posted:
The lead climber is placing gear as they go so there isn't a fixed belay but the rope is still clipped into protective gear in between both climbers. When they get to the next anchor the lead will wait for the other climber to catch up (picking up the gear as they go) and then they will either swap the gear or trade places for the next pitch. Also there is a climbing thread: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3522567
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I did a mountaineering course in school earlier this year. Wrote a complete guide on climbing Mt. Robson here in Canada as the class project and my prof gave me 100% on it. Guess I'm ready for Everest. JK I would honestly die.
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