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No deaths. This is the year mankind fully conquers the mountain. No one will ever die on Everest again, and in a few decades, we'll be taking our grandchildren up the covered escalator as a day trip and taking a fun slide down.
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Didn't Nepal ever follow through on their plan to cutback on the number of idiots killing themselves in pursuit of the perfect selfie? All I can find is proposals.
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Aha, eat it Everest. You're not the tallest mountain if you measure height in a dumb way http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/17/world/what-in-the-world/the-mountain-that-tops-everest-because-the-earth-is-fat.html
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May 17, 2016 06:32
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Alan Smithee posted:I didn't know altitude sickness itself could kill. Thought it was hypoxia or something Isn't that what HAPE is? A couple people died of it before the summiting started (they should totally count).
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May 21, 2016 16:21
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Huh, you'd think a doctor would know enough to avoid huge mountains.
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May 21, 2016 18:33
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Plus now you can give yourself a mustache or a silly hat in real time.
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May 23, 2016 01:34
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Am I crazy, or does every mountain climbing-focused site look like it was designed in 1999? Edit: "Today the typical expedition member’s age ranges from 13 to 80 but mostly consist of 94% men in their late 30’s to mid 40’s." Ohhhh it's a midlife crisis. This makes a lot more sense. PostNouveau fucked around with this message at 03:03 on May 24, 2016 |
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May 24, 2016 02:59
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canyoneer posted:Can't he just dip into all that money they saved by going with the absolute cheapest outfit available? Plus, one less mouth to feed.
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May 27, 2016 02:51
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BEAR GRYLLZ posted:Yeah, one even "landed" (touched a skid on) the summit a few years ago. It's definitely dangerous but specialized helicopters are capable of flying fairly safely at those heights, given good weather. Well hell, how much for a ride then? I can take a poo poo on the summit, laugh at the lineup and leave in half an hour.
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May 27, 2016 12:21
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elwood posted:Update: I'm in Namche Right now. Still alive Dead man posting
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Oct 22, 2016 08:30
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If you could freeze solid mid-poo poo, that would be pretty cool.
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Oct 24, 2016 10:32
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elwood posted:If anyone wants to follow my groundbreaking trip in the future, I'm more than happy to answer questions with my vast 14 day nepal hiking experience. What is death like? Is the mountain constantly consuming and reviving your soul in the afterlife or is it more of a torture thing?
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Nov 10, 2016 19:10
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elwood posted:On the one hand he climbed it already so he knows what he's getting into. On the other hand, he seems to have a deathwish and with a 5 month old child, he is a selfish rear end in a top hat. He's a "professional wingsuit pilot," so he'll be dead pretty soon anyway. I guess he may as well die on Everest.
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Nov 24, 2016 07:17
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inferis posted:Sports illustrated has an Everest cover story this month Oh, here comes the jinx. It won't kill anyone else this season after that cover comes out.
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May 7, 2017 08:46
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ZombieLenin posted:They should read about K2 then. We went to the moon for a very good reason: sticking it to the Ruskies 
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May 9, 2017 08:12
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It makes for pretty awesome videos. He will most definitely fall off a rock and die someday though.
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Jun 5, 2017 16:56
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marsisol posted:From what I've read, Honnold doesn't even really free solo that often and he's definitely not an adrenaline junkie like so many that have died before him. I recall an interview where he says that if he feels any adrenaline while free soloing, it means something has gone horribly wrong. I get the impression that he's probably done free soloing after El Cap, it was literally his life's work. Somebody gave him an MRI test, and the part of his brain that should be creating fear response isn't working correctly. Either he trained it away or it never worked right to begin with.
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ewe2 posted:Why K2 in winter? Because it's there in the winter
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JerikTelorian posted:There was a death this weekend, and some injuries among sherpas doing prep work. That's a hell of a way to go
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IIRC, she made it up the mountain.
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May 24, 2018 18:50
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It's a good thing that rock fell off, right? That was the big bottleneck?
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May 26, 2018 18:27
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 I murdered a Sherpa, and I've never felt better!
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May 29, 2018 00:39
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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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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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Jun 6, 2018 03:39
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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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Jun 9, 2018 16:48
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Then it is the greatest athletic feat imaginable.
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Jun 9, 2018 17:31
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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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Jun 9, 2018 20:34
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Oh, to be the first corpse on Olympus Mons.
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Jun 10, 2018 03:17
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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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Jul 22, 2018 00:06
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nsaP posted:Dude full screen it in hd, it's the guy tumbling end over end as if he fell face first. From the comments, by the uploader: quote:tokyo hutte
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Sep 2, 2018 08:18
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nsaP posted:Dude that’s not a glove...are you all for real? I'm just quoting the guy who uploaded the video responding in the comments to people asking about it
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Sep 2, 2018 22:30
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Val Helmethead posted:Gonna do something smaller and a bit closer to me for October. Now, I could just drive to the WV highpoint, but why do that when I can backpack 25 miles round trip over 2 days through the backcountry, and camp next to a waterfall? in advance
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Sep 28, 2018 14:26
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It's all a countdown until China builds a golden elevator to the top and I get to laugh about how difficult it used to be.
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May 25, 2019 08:11
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OMGVBFLOL posted:"in the single digits" for cancer is a big fuckin deal Yeah, you don't hear about it much, but medical science has made a lot of headway against cancer. It doesn't get press because there hasn't been one big breakthrough. It's a lot of single-digit reductions in various types that have added up over the last couple decades.
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Jun 6, 2019 04:56
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This seems pretty foolhardy, although probably a lot less dangerous than cavediving. Probably can't get yourself into too much trouble when you can only travel as far as one breath will take you. https://www.nationalgeographic.com/adventure/2019/04/freedivers-guillaume-nery-julie-gautier-one-breath-around-world/
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Jun 16, 2019 05:19
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OMGVBFLOL posted:what's wild is, humans' desire to breathe is much more strongly moderated by our blood CO2 levels than by our blood O2, since O2 is almost all bound up in hemoglobin, and almost always near 100% saturation, but CO2 is just free-floating in the plasma and can vary much more based on activity level. Dissolved CO2 is also acidic, making blood pH the main thing that drives our feeling short of breath or a desire to breathe. Whoa, that's nuts
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Jun 16, 2019 19:24
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Watching "The Summit" on Hulu, about the 2008 disaster on K2 that killed 11 people. It's weird because they all seem to agree the rope crew hosed up leading to a late start, and an avalanche took out a climber with the ropes all the people above them needed, and then everything is just a confused blur after that because everyone spent so long above 8,000 meters, and then the survivors point fingers for the rest of their lives.
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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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