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DrPlump posted:Are the Sherpa's still trying to murder people for dishonoring them by summiting before them? Did the finally realize they where wrong when the mountain responded by avalanching them the year afterwards? drat I bet Ueli Steck's high altitude rescue helicopters would have helped with that whole thing. It's Simone Moro who flies the helicopters, try to keep up h t h
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Rondette posted:hhahahahaha, fuckin lol!
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Austria has a shitload of hiking mountains.
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Jose posted:Ogre is a cool name for a mountain See also: Eiger
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Platystemon posted:I can’t decide if “Trango Towers” sounds badass, or like a some lame public housing development. I just meant that Eiger means ogre in german.
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GTO posted:Wow, 5000m isn't even that high, relatively speaking. You can drive that high in parts of the Andes and Himalayas. Altitude hits harder if you're exhausted/dehydrated/etc.
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elwood posted:Update: I'm in Namche Right now. Still alive Sweet. How's the temperature?
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elwood posted:About 10-12 C in the sun and a bit above freezing at night. Sounds like perfect weather for hiking if the huts aren't too cold at night.
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https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/638511155582005248 Unfortunately I can't figure out how you're supposed to post a tweet but Trump says he's going to revert the Denali namechange.
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OMGVBFLOL posted:k2 probably has the most impressive list of kills, but no Eh, there's loads of stuff left in Tibet and Kyrgyzstan at least. The ones left are either lower, like 5000m, or more isolated though. I know for a fact two swedish amateurs and a slovenian dude did a first ascent in either Tibet or Nepal last year, which was real climbing but nothing really extreme. There's also entire unexplored valleys and stuff in India and Pakistan where the military are really restrictive with permits, but there are a few serious mountaineers who do it every year.
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OMGVBFLOL posted:Wow. Shows what I know. It's bonkers to me how huge and sparse the Himalayas are. If you're interested https://www.alpinist.com writes about stuff like that, they also do an actual magazine. http://www.alpinist.com/doc/web17w/newswire-xialongrezha Here's one article, apparently the maps didn't even have the right height of the mountain. http://www.alpinist.com/doc/web15y/newswire-sherpa-americans-climb-first-ascents-rolwaling-himal Three nepalese sherpas do 3 unclimbed 6000 m-peaks in 3 days. Pretty cool stuff!
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uwaeve posted:I know there have been book recommendations and reviews in the thread before, but I'm having trouble paging through finding them. I've read into thin air, dark summit, and the climb. Are there go-to recommendations on what to read? I recommend Kiss or Kill by Mark Twight. He was one of the best alpinists in the world in the late 80's to early 00's. He took huge risks climbing but was good and lucky enough to survive a lot of poo poo. There's a lot of written stuff on his website as well. He also wrote a textbook of a sort called Extreme Alpinism which is pretty much what it sounds like.
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Cojawfee posted:Did he already do the Everest part? No, he was acclimatizing before the attempt.
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MorgaineDax posted:Why even wear a helmet at this point? Wearing a helmet probably saved his life a few years ago on Annapurna when he got a rock to the head right at the start of the climb. He still went up but said afterwards that the risk had been too high and that he would tone it down from now on.
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Grumio posted:https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/09/sports/polish-climbers-to-scale-deadly-k2-peak-in-winter.html Thank for the link, good article.
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Josef K. Sourdust posted:Tell that to Kurtz and Hinterstoisser. (Little Eiger joke for those in the know. No one has ever downclimbed the Eiger north face, no. It's harder to climb downwards, and there's no prestige or sense of accomplishment in it since it's only used for retreating or descending from a summit. It's a good skill to practice as a climber, but no one that I've ever heard of does it on a larger scale as what you're suggesting. E: Downclimbing is different from rappelling/abseiling where you slide down the rope, just to be clear. Syncopated fucked around with this message at 22:22 on May 14, 2017 |
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Yeah, 9 dudes is a lot historically right? Feels not that big of a deal compared to eartquakes and avalanches and stuff, but poo poo.
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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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Levitate posted:More posts about cool mountaineering please https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1tBf455jXE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DIv-s5hGw_s This is 2 videos from Steve House, one of the best mountaineers in the world. These 2 clips are probably the best climbing/mountaineering films I've ever seen, even if the production values are kinda poo poo. He's filming it himself while climbing in Pakistan and Peru.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTalnzcO0xk Alex Honnold to the entire world.
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djssniper posted:Thanks, this link seems to work Hey, this was really cool. Beautiful cinematography and an interesting viewpoint.
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Pierogi posted:Oops, someone is angry that Murder God didn't get enough today!! Ah yes, Denis Urubko what a wuss, why not send a real man who's better than him at high altitude winter climbing, such as...umm...hmm
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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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Turns out the death zone is bad for you, who could have known
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