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Someone open up the GBS thread again so I can get some quality shitposting in
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K2, the mountain so remote the locals didn't even give it a name 
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Jul 8, 2019 14:53
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cock hero flux posted:k2 isn't going to put up with this poo poo and everyone there who climbed everest and thought that now that they've conquered it they can take on anything is going to experience the slow, horrible realization that it is, comparatively, the Nice Mountain The dudes that got catapulted into the sky would take issue with your definition of 'slow' if they weren't still being mulched into undifferentiated parts at the base of the mountain. Jr. posted:It game-overs the second you stop for a photo Lot of crevasses to fill up first. 150 is barely going to cover it.
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Jul 8, 2019 15:03
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Old Boot posted:The dudes that got catapulted into the sky would take issue with your definition of 'slow' if they weren't still being mulched into undifferentiated parts at the base of the mountain.
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Jul 8, 2019 15:12
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Dirt Road Junglist posted:K2, the mountain so remote the locals didn't even give it a name quote:... just the bare bones of a name, all rock and ice and storm and abyss. It makes no attempt to sound human. It is atoms and stars. It has the nakedness of the world before the first man – or of the cindered planet after the last. I've been slowly rereading At The Mountains Of Madness and thinking about this thread off and on. Sometimes I get a little regretful that Antarctica doesn't have a massive 6000m plateau ringed with disgustingly huge 10km high mountains. gently caress, you'd need a pressure suit to climb those.
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Jul 8, 2019 19:55
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Phy posted:I've been slowly rereading At The Mountains Of Madness and thinking about this thread off and on. Sometimes I get a little regretful that Antarctica doesn't have a massive 6000m plateau ringed with disgustingly huge 10km high mountains. gently caress, you'd need a pressure suit to climb those. Are you tired of the word "cyclopean" yet? Because that was my take away from that read. Yeah, if that range did exist there'd be a shitton more corpses from the Everest tourists AND the Antarctica tourists. Between that and everything melting, it'd bound to be way more trouble than in the story.
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Jul 8, 2019 20:40
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the thing about k2 is that you absolutely need serious climbing skills just to get started. Nobody is gonna get three sherpas to fix their ropes and haul all their oxygen and then just walk across some ladders and take a steep hike. My expectation is a huge percentage of those people trying k2 are just not going to get very far and will have to turn back because their sheer
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Jul 8, 2019 22:18
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Alan Smithee posted:which one was this This guy 2008 K2 Disaster posted:Several people later indicated Baig may have been suffering from high altitude sickness, since he had displayed questionable behaviour in abseiling down the Bottleneck. Sträng also noticed that Baig was incoherent, first offering to help in the rescue, later refusing to help, then returning moments later to assist them again. Baig lost his footing and bumped into Sträng, who then urged him to let go of the rope attached to Mandić's harness, before all four climbers would be dragged down. Baig finally let go of the rope, but to Sträng's and the others' surprise, he did not try to stop his slide by using the self-arrest technique, which has about a 50% chance of arresting a fall, and Baig fell to his death. 'Sky' seems a relative term at that elevation.
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Jul 9, 2019 01:41
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Old Boot posted:This guy I assumed you meant Wojciech Wróż, who slid off the end of a fixed rope in 1986... but basically there are enough catapult-ees that it's possible to confuse them. You'd think the fact that multiple people have just yeeted off the mountain would deter amateur climbers, but no.
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Jul 22, 2019 20:48
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I'm surprised there aren't more people wanting to entomb themselves at the peak like intentionally
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Jul 22, 2019 21:03
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Alan Smithee posted:I'm surprised there aren't more people wanting to entomb themselves at the peak See, turning the world’s tallest mountain into a shrine to yourself would be something comprehensible to do with your ill-gotten millions. Paying for the privilege of trudging through a pile of frozen poo poo and then dying because you got stuck in line is idiocy.
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Jul 22, 2019 21:09
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Best suicide ever for rich people. Pay someone to take you as far as you can go up Everest, then find a nice place to be a landmark for future stupid rich people climbing the mountain and go to sleep.
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Jul 23, 2019 01:51
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a mountain of skulls to make everest yet higher the death zone bar gets harder to clear, the skulls pile up I mean the nepalese will probably have to boil them to get the flesh off yeah it's late
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Jul 23, 2019 11:52
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Alan Smithee posted:a mountain of skulls to make everest yet higher Instead of taking the discarded oxygen bottles off the mountain, carry them further up, and add them to the mountain's height 
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Jul 23, 2019 23:17
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So yeah update from K2 sounds like most everyone gave up and went home except the special forces guy who's hellbent on climbing all 14 8000ers in a year, and a couple lunatics with no O2. They made Camp 4 a few hours ago. https://explorersweb.com/2019/07/22/purba-launches-new-k2-push-but-how-risky-is-it/
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Jul 23, 2019 23:33
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shame on an IGA posted:So yeah update from K2 sounds like most everyone gave up and went home except the special forces guy who's hellbent on climbing all 14 8000ers in a year, and a couple lunatics with no O2. They made Camp 4 a few hours ago. haha they're planning to poo poo ladders and bolts all over K2 as well
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Jul 23, 2019 23:43
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shame on an IGA posted:So yeah update from K2 sounds like most everyone gave up and went home except the special forces guy who's hellbent on climbing all 14 8000ers in a year, and a couple lunatics with no O2. They made Camp 4 a few hours ago. So are they dead yet or what?
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Jul 23, 2019 23:48
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PostNouveau posted:So are they dead yet or what? Rinky-dink ink guy might be getting in an early-morning summit at this very second, if 
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Jul 24, 2019 00:05
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OMGVBFLOL posted:haha they're planning to poo poo ladders and bolts all over K2 as well They should save time on the descent by installing a big slide.
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Jul 24, 2019 00:15
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Yes, it's like a lava lamp.
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Blood for the mountain god
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Jul 24, 2019 00:41
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PittTheElder posted:They should save time on the descent by installing a big slide. honestly I think that's the big appeal of the parachuting off the top of the mountain approach.
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Jul 24, 2019 00:49
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shame on an IGA posted:So yeah update from K2 sounds like most everyone gave up and went home Sounds like my kind of mountaineering, get to the base of the mountain, look up say gee that looks like a long way and lots of hard work. Give up and go home. Still spend the next several years talking about how I almost climbed K2 but had to turn back before reaching the summit.
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Jul 24, 2019 01:40
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Whoops double post.
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Jul 24, 2019 01:42
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https://twitter.com/nimsdai/status/1153868494515113985
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Jul 25, 2019 02:40
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no you fools!!! now the mountain will come for us all
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Jul 25, 2019 03:33
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Wasabi the J posted:honestly I think that's the big appeal of the parachuting off the top of the mountain approach. i wonder how far you'd get if you somehow basejumped off everest while the jet stream was blasting the summit. would you just get deposited somewhere in the pacific
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Jul 25, 2019 03:54
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OMGVBFLOL posted:i wonder how far you'd get if you somehow basejumped off everest while the jet stream was blasting the summit. would you just get deposited somewhere in the pacific Not so much a question of how far you'd get but whether you made it in one piece.
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Jul 25, 2019 04:31
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Wow, they even made it back down and are attempting Broad Peak next... https://twitter.com/nimsdai/status/1154063404228890624
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Jul 25, 2019 06:33
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Mountain climbers are loving crazy
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Jul 25, 2019 13:10
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"hmm, why yes, i think i 'd like to push my luck some more" - mountain clamorers
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Jul 25, 2019 13:22
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Peter Singer stepped in to argue that it's dumb and morally wrong to climb Mt. Everest
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Sep 8, 2019 21:53
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Gobbeldygook posted:Peter Singer stepped in to argue that it's dumb and morally wrong to climb Mt. Everest I think it is a stretch to say it is morally wrong to climb a mountain, as much as I hate 99% of the rich people who climb the mountain; however, it is certainly morally wrong to have the attitude of, “that guy needs help? gently caress that guy, I am here to summit.” I am a Marxist so I hate to sound like I am defending rich douche nozzles, but his argument that the money to climb could have saved a life of donated to charity is rather thin. You could say that about anything—if you never went to a single movie your entire life and instead donated all that money to charity—or even your profession... Sure I could have saved more lives if I just joined the peace corps, and lived in the third world for no money my whole life, gently caress everything and everyone else I would have to give up; and that includes his tenures Princeton rear end sitting in the ivory tower, writing articles that he can talk about at his academic cocktail parties.
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Sep 9, 2019 01:02
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ZombieLenin posted:I think it is a stretch to say it is morally wrong to climb a mountain, as much as I hate 99% of the rich people who climb the mountain; however, it is certainly morally wrong to have the attitude of, “that guy needs help? gently caress that guy, I am here to summit.” I think that's kind of his thing. I remember way back in high school reading something of his that boiled down to "you should be donating everything you make to the third world until you are slightly less starving than the most starving African". It wasn't very convincing.
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Sep 9, 2019 01:41
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ZombieLenin posted:I am a Marxist so I hate to sound like I am defending rich douche nozzles, but his argument that the money to climb could have saved a life of donated to charity is rather thin. You could say that about anything—if you never went to a single movie your entire life and instead donated all that money to charity—or even your profession... The counter to "join the peace corps" is that you would do way more good becoming an investment banker and donating even just half of your earnings to good charities than spending your days digging ditches in Kenya. Singer could dig latrines in in Kenya, or he could continue to inspire millions of dollars of charitable donations by continuing his academic career.
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Sep 9, 2019 01:47
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I just want to laugh at ded rich people cuz it makes me laugh. I’m not gonna argue praxis
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Sep 9, 2019 01:58
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So I’m guessing he would think buying the K2 board game is a waste. How else am I supposed to shove my Himalayan mountaineering obsession in people’s faces while making everyone at a party contemplate their mortality?
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Sep 9, 2019 06:29
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Peter Singer has sent me several angry emails about my crowdfunded effort to clone an army of Everest Eliminators.
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Sep 9, 2019 06:31
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Everest Eliminators sounds like a deadly obstacle course on the top a gauntlet of challenges made to streamline rich death
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Sep 9, 2019 13:33
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Alan Smithee posted:Everest Eliminators sounds like a deadly obstacle course on the top Not hearing a downside
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