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Picnic Princess posted: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. Ah you'll probably be fine you should do it
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In two months I'm going to try Elbrus :O
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Decided last month so I have three months to prepare
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LastCaress posted:In two months I'm going to try Elbrus :O I am going to google mars right now and am going to climb Olympus Mons. Absolutely no training at all. 
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ZombieLenin posted:I am going to google mars right now and am going to climb Olympus Mons. Absolutely no training at all. If you don't dust-surf back down, I'll consider you a pussy.
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Parasail off the six‐thousand‐metre cliffs. What would a parasail suitable for the Martian atmosphere look like? 
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The atmosphere is a lot thinner, so it would have to be really huge.
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Hiking Olympus Mons is also walking what more or less is flat ground. A boring hike.
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George H.W. oval office posted:Hiking Olympus Mons is also walking what more or less is flat ground. A boring hike. But will I freeze to death in the middle of it?
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PostNouveau posted:But will I freeze to death in the middle of it? https://twitter.com/MarsWxReport/status/1005242339944693761 Maybe
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Then it is the greatest athletic feat imaginable.
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It doesn’t count if you have to use supplementary oxygen.
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HMS Beagle posted:It doesn’t count if you have to use supplementary oxygen. To be fair, you need supplemental oxygen at sea level.
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Cojawfee posted:To be fair, you need supplemental oxygen at sea level. Maybe YOU need supplemental oxygen at sea level, but I'm in super good shape. I go to the rock climbing gym twice a week.
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PostNouveau posted:Maybe YOU need supplemental oxygen at sea level, but I'm in super good shape. I go to the rock climbing gym twice a week. A pressurized rock climbing gym?
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Yeah but the thin atmosphere saps body heat much less effectively. Platystemon fucked around with this message at 07:47 on Jun 11, 2018 |
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Platystemon posted:Yeah but the thing atmosphere saps body heat much less effectively. Green Spacesuit Boots.
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Oh, to be the first corpse on Olympus Mons.
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Caf posted:^^I should refresh a thread before posting. Sounds like the guys might have been overconfident and weren't placing anchors like they should have been, so it kinda fits this thread of people doing dumb poo poo and dying https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Witness-to-death-plunge-of-2-climbers-on-El-12982924.php?t=35f789961d
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That reporter's description of climbing reminds me of the classic Shatner http://screencrush.com/william-shatner-mountain-sex-interview/
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Elbrus is cool, I actually have a lot of experience trekking high mountains.
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George H.W. oval office posted:Hiking Olympus Mons is also walking what more or less is flat ground. A boring hike. The real challenge is being the first to circumnavigate the base. Speaking of which, here is an article about the horrifying crisis of toxic dust around the Salton Sea causing untold misery for nearby residents, featuring a brief detour with this misery chaser: Dust Rising posted:Randy Brown became the first person to walk the perimeter of the Salton Sea after deciding that hiking through Death Valley wasn’t enough of a challenge. “Anybody can walk across Death Valley in the summer,” he tells me. The Salton Sea was another matter: a Death Valley walker had attempted something similar in 2005, but settled for walking the nearby highway. And for good reason.
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Jeez, survive an everest nightmare, die climbing some stairs https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/mount-everest-climber-who-survived-12784582
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Apparently Nepalese trekking companies and guides are scamming travel insurance companies into paying for unnecessary helicopter rescues. https://www.yahoo.com/news/unnecessary-rescues-soar-nepal-profits-insurance-payouts-034651607.html?soc_src=hl-viewer&soc_trk=fb
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In less than a month I'll try and summit Elbrus  Not as dangerous as Everest, obviously, but still a challenge. Last month I was in Nepal, and this is why people climb : Sure, there's some danger, but it's so beautiful...
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LastCaress posted:In less than a month I'll try and summit Elbrus Thanks for sharing that picture. Holy cow.
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LastCaress posted:In less than a month I'll try and summit Elbrus Looks great from there, not sure about the view from under an avalanche, the bottom of a crevass, or in a snow storm being blown off a cliff.. but yes, that view there is beautiful
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LastCaress posted:In less than a month I'll try and summit Elbrus Yeah, I see that and I think... “here people go to die.”
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This Mountain kills the bourgeois. and the sherpa, sadly
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the sherpa are the bourgeois of nepal so its cool
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Kung Fu Fist gently caress posted:the sherpa are the bourgeois of nepal so its cool I do not think the CPNMC would agree with that statement.
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Remembering the scene in the Sherpa movie where the actual bourgeois, the Minister of Tourism, is helicoptered in (wearing a suit if I recall) to basically tell the sherpas "what a shame a bunch of your folks just died, but the climbing season is still on, so chop chop!"
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RIP me. I climbed Mt Katahdin, via the Hunt trail, so obviously I'm ready for 14,000 ft peaks in Colorado, right? Gonna climb Mt Elbert. Easy hike, if the acclimation doesn't get me. This insanity will only end when I am frozen to death on Denali.
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Val Helmethead posted:RIP me. I climbed Mt Katahdin, via the Hunt trail, so obviously I'm ready for 14,000 ft peaks in Colorado, right? Try to die in an interesting position, so future generations can tell each other "When you pass the guy who died taking a poo poo, you're 2/3rds of the way to the top."
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I recommend wearing some brightly colored gear, too. It's easier to remember Neon Yellow Hat than Some Random Goon's Name.
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Haifisch posted:I recommend wearing some brightly colored gear, too. It's easier to remember Neon Yellow Hat than Some Random Goon's Name. "OSHA Yellow Jacket" it is then.
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My goal is to die in my best goatse spread
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Jesus Christ  Polish Daredevil Becomes First Person To Ski Down From The Summit Of K2 https://deadspin.com/polish-daredevil-becomes-first-person-to-ski-down-from-1827831917
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