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I still don't understand what "crampons on the wrong feet" means. Whose feet were they on, his grandmother's?
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Jul 1, 2019 21:59
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I'm guessing the crampons curve to match a boot. When you look at the picture he shows, you can see the crampon on the left boot curves to the left as if it should go on a right boot.
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Jul 1, 2019 22:04
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Ohh, ok. The phrasing REALLY confused me.
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Jul 1, 2019 22:06
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I think that's the part of into thin air that jumped out to me the most. The "climbers" were learning how to put on their crampons at the start of the trip. Like, they couldn't even be asked to put them on in their living room, let alone actually climb a snow slope before setting out to climb Everest. And the guides accept this as normal, and train their clients, and encourage them like 12 year olds at summer camp.
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Jul 1, 2019 22:21
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They probably aren't the client's crampons. but yeah, even then crampons are like basic rear end alpine climbing and not owning their own and being familiar with them shows how insanely inexperienced they are. there's climbs you use crampons in the freakin sierra nevadas, most of which summit well below the elevation of nepal's capital city. there's tons of 14ers in the rockies with no summit restrictions, so you don't even have the fact that money won't get you past the lottery for Mt Whitney or other super popular american summits Cactus Ghost fucked around with this message at 22:45 on Jul 1, 2019 |
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Jul 1, 2019 22:43
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Anyone who has no opinion or experience with their kit is not even a hobbyist. Like, it's a universal rule, hobbyists obsess about their equipment. There's always downtime when you can't be actively doing your hobby, and so futzing around with your tools and reading reviews and discussing the minutia of them is second-best. Doesn't matter if you like photography or woodworking or building race cars. Everest should be closed to amateurs, including mere hobbyists who haven't done a fair amount of high altitude alpine climbing before; but being unable to recognize which foot your crampons go on means you're not even at the point where you should be trying any icy slope or snow hiking, anywhere. (Or maybe you're so brain-addled from oxygen starvation that you can't use your own equipment, which is just as bad.)
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Jul 1, 2019 22:43
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then again I'm all for a developing country exploiting the global 0.01% with no regard for their lives, because while two wrongs don't make a right, they have it coming
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Jul 1, 2019 22:49
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They are still putting innocent sherpas at risk. Hiring poor people to do extremely dangerous work that is of no benefit to society is wrong, even if they are willing to risk their lives for a few thousand dollars.
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Jul 2, 2019 00:04
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They found those missing climbers from a while back:quote:Eight climbers — four from Britain, two from the United States, and one each from Australia and India — went missing on May 31 after they failed to return to their base camp near the 7,816 metre mountain, Nanda Devi. 
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Jul 3, 2019 20:48
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For future reference, you start a post like that by saying “they found the bodies of those missing climbers...”
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Jul 3, 2019 22:59
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Skarsnik posted:https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/stories-48800535/everest-queues-this-person-had-crampons-on-the-wrong-feet 
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Jul 4, 2019 11:42
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solution: sell more souvenirs! "and this here climber patty once belonged to Sir Edmund Hillary himself!"
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Jul 4, 2019 12:18
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6tOOXyw6G0
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Jul 4, 2019 12:39
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it'shappening dot gif http://www.alanarnette.com/blog/2019/07/03/k2-2019-summer-season-coverage-will-k2-be-like-everest-this-year/ Alan Arnette posted:As the ropes fixers make progress and teams prepare for their first rotations, there is trouble in the air.
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Jul 5, 2019 21:39
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Old Boot posted:it'shappening dot gif  He says in https://www.alanarnette.com/blog/2019/05/23/everest-2019-3-new-deaths-now-6-on-everest-15-overall/ that there were over 800 people that attempted Everest this year so 150 on K2 doesn't really sound like that much!
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Jul 6, 2019 01:28
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Buttcoin purse posted:
Don't most K2 seasons have a couple dozen climbers?
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i think less than 150 people have summited K2 ever e: checked, it's 302 according to the wikipedia article lol still
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Jul 6, 2019 01:56
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Everest gondola when
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Jul 6, 2019 02:59
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Why the hell are so many people queuing up to summit K2? Jesus Christ I can't think of a better way to get killed than being in a traffic jam on K2.
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Jul 6, 2019 04:10
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how else am i gonna be the first left handed black female leader of the ku klax klan to summit
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Jul 6, 2019 04:11
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Seriously, K2 hates you and wants you dead.
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Jul 6, 2019 04:16
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Yeah, if that number is correct it's going to be the bloodiest year in mountain climbing history.
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Jul 6, 2019 04:24
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There but for the grace of god goes 150 reasons why death pools exist. don't bring back the death pool but seriously that number is loving baffling EDIT vvv I personally had no problem with it, but I mainlined the threads wholesale and holy poo poo the number of times it gets dragged puts it firmly in the territory of 'not worth it' vvv Old Boot fucked around with this message at 05:24 on Jul 6, 2019 |
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Jul 6, 2019 04:49
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Death pool ruled gently caress the concern trolls no mods no masters Seriously IDK how a SA thread got dragged for lusting after rich people death when that's been GBS whole political schtick for the past 7 years.
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Jul 6, 2019 05:11
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The death pool wasn't just gross, it was also boring as poo poo. Nobody had a good time reading "I bet 10!!! The mountain hungers LOL!!!!" for five pages in a row.
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Jul 6, 2019 05:21
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i like nice words
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Anne Whateley posted:The death pool wasn't just gross, it was also boring as poo poo. Nobody had a good time reading "I bet 10!!! The mountain hungers LOL!!!!" for five pages in a row. yeah this. it was funny the first time but we're better off without it
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Jul 6, 2019 07:46
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High Lord Elbow posted:For future reference, you start a post like that by saying “they found the bodies of those missing climbers...” They're people, not objects.
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Jul 6, 2019 08:30
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If we get to the point where people photoshop themselves in climbing gear before venturing to conquer K2 as their first >1000m peak there should be a mental hospital disguised as a K2 permit issuing office. HAPs can be employed as nurses. Anne Frank Funk fucked around with this message at 09:36 on Jul 6, 2019 |
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Jul 6, 2019 09:33
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Anne Whateley posted:The death pool wasn't just gross, it was also boring as poo poo. Nobody had a good time reading "I bet 10!!! The mountain hungers LOL!!!!" for five pages in a row. Nobody enjoyed reading this either fyi
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Jul 6, 2019 12:20
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If K2 gets to be almost as busy as Everest it will last a grand total of one year because holy gently caress there are so many more places that people will die compared to Everest. Just read Alan Arnette's blogs of him summiting and descending K2, especially if you want to feel exhausted just reading about it.
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I'm sorry I brought it up. Making matters worse, this is from an earlier post (June 26th): Alan Arnette posted:One Pakistan Expeditor operator told me that there is a serious shortage of porters to haul gear up the Baltoro to the base camps of K2, Broad Peak and the Gasherbrum’s: There's been a string of bad weather hampering progress, but they're still in the "good" window, weather-wise. Technically. IIRC, K2's season ends mid to early August? Still, shaping up for a great, uh-- Well. It's sure something.
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Jul 6, 2019 14:43
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simplefish posted:Nobody enjoyed reading this either fyi I did.
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Jul 6, 2019 16:50
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https://twitter.com/thetribunechd/status/1147781337115328512 i literally thought they were selling trash like I joked about but it's just recycling *yawn*
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Martian Manfucker posted:Why the hell are so many people queuing up to summit K2? Jesus Christ I can't think of a better way to get killed than being in a traffic jam on K2. The article says it's also an influx of inexperienced climbers. On K2. It's probably people who were hand-held up Everest and found it relatively simple (because it is, technically speaking), and decided they want to try the second biggest summit to post on their Instagram.
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Jul 8, 2019 14:26
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K2 is the cool hipster mountain now since Everest is popular and crowded. Luckily K2 will murder everyone
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Sand Monster posted:The article says it's also an influx of inexperienced climbers. On K2. It's probably people who were hand-held up Everest and found it relatively simple (because it is, technically speaking), and decided they want to try the second biggest summit to post on their Instagram. Not just inexperienced climbers, inexperienced tour operators. Gonna need the K2 edition of the goon-made #Everest game now.
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Old Boot posted:Gonna need the K2 edition of the goon-made #Everest game now. It game-overs the second you stop for a photo Saw 27 new posts and man, thread didn't disappoint. EVEREST IS CANCELLED the lit new mountain for dentists is K2, it will become safer because of the pile of dead rich people softening your fall at the bottom.
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