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Posted on 5/27/19 at 9:49 pm to TnMountaineer
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Pretty sure she turned around and saw my shitting on the side of the mountain.
You didn't just "leave the mountain as you found it".
You made it taller!
Bravo!
Posted on 5/27/19 at 9:51 pm to Obtuse1
Watched a documentary about all the trash left on these mountains. It is crazy. It seems like they could raise prices and cut number of climbers and then pay now unneeded Sherpas to pick up trash.
This post was edited on 5/28/19 at 10:03 am
Posted on 5/27/19 at 9:56 pm to LanierSpots
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You get a picture from the top bro?
I have over 2000 pictures from my climbing days but they were all pre-digital so all 35mm. I haven't opened the boxes in probably 15 years. I am one of those people that takes lots of pictures then never looks at them.
Posted on 5/27/19 at 10:02 pm to Jim Rockford
There's a mountain range within a day's drive of my apartment. There's oxygen rich air, several sources of fresh water and enough large, wild game that I wouldn't have to resort to eating plants, and attractive tourists visiting.
Going to the Himalayas would be a shitty, less enjoyable, more dangerous version of what we have in the United States.
There's nothing compelling about that big-arse rock pile and I don't know what calls all these perverts to it every year.
Going to the Himalayas would be a shitty, less enjoyable, more dangerous version of what we have in the United States.
There's nothing compelling about that big-arse rock pile and I don't know what calls all these perverts to it every year.
Posted on 5/27/19 at 10:03 pm to LanierSpots
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Nobody summit the sharks tooth here?
Saw that documentary. Meru
Do you mean the Shark's Fin route on Meru?
I doubt anyone here has even been on Meru, the handful to be on any of the three peaks are all climbing royalty. It ain't a peak for baggers.
For the folks that liked Free Solo also watch Dawn Wall. While it was not a solo (no ropes) it is the hardest free climb (to the top) on El Cap, much harder than Freerider which is the route Honnold free soloed.
This post was edited on 5/27/19 at 10:36 pm
Posted on 5/27/19 at 10:09 pm to Jim Rockford
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8 deaths, 3 missing and presumed dead, and it's still early
It's still like Disneyworld at Everest - way too many marginal climbers buying their way onto that one. I think Annapurna and K2 are going to stablize, safety-wise, over time because they are true climbers' peaks, daunting, technically quite challenging and relatively lethal even for an 8000m. I mean, when 34 die for every 100 safe returned (Annapurna), you have to have a reality check with the man in the mirror.
Posted on 5/27/19 at 10:24 pm to Obtuse1
Meru and Dawn Wall were both really good docs.
Posted on 5/27/19 at 10:32 pm to LSUintheNW
It wasn’t an accomplishment and I never said it was hard. It’s just the highest place I have ever walked to. In the end, it was really a story about almost shitting my pants until fortune gave me 30 minutes of alone time at the summit.
Posted on 5/27/19 at 10:45 pm to wutangfinancial
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Mt. Borah
I’m planning a trip down there this summer to summit it from the standard route.
Posted on 5/28/19 at 4:54 am to lsu13lsu
Yep. I am no climber but really enjoyed Meru.
Posted on 5/28/19 at 5:30 am to Meauxjeaux
Man frickkkkk that
Posted on 5/28/19 at 6:02 am to Ace Midnight
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It's still like Disneyworld at Everest - way too many marginal climbers buying their way onto that one.
Frick that
Posted on 5/28/19 at 7:31 am to Obtuse1
Climb anything interesting on Half Dome?
We spent a summer trip attempting Tis-sa-ack.
It was too early in the year and that thing poured water on us. Cold AF water. It was mostly gardening for the leader and me trying to not get injured by the pitons shite whipping around, helmetless. Good stuff, we abandoned ship and just free soloed Snake Dike.
We spent a summer trip attempting Tis-sa-ack.
It was too early in the year and that thing poured water on us. Cold AF water. It was mostly gardening for the leader and me trying to not get injured by the pitons shite whipping around, helmetless. Good stuff, we abandoned ship and just free soloed Snake Dike.
This post was edited on 5/28/19 at 7:37 am
Posted on 5/28/19 at 7:38 am to Obtuse1
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I haven't opened the boxes in probably 15 years. I am one of those people that takes lots of pictures then never looks at them.
I would dig those boxes out and digitize them, and put them on the cloud like Google photos. Then, they're on your phone.
Then, when someone in the office is getting a little full of himself/herself, you can drop some "Top of the World, Ma!" pics on them.
Posted on 5/28/19 at 7:51 am to Obtuse1
You've lived an interesting life, man. You're definitely someone I'd like to sit down and share a couple of beers with. 
Posted on 5/28/19 at 8:32 am to Jim Rockford
I'd drive to base camp on the road the Chinese built.
Posted on 5/28/19 at 8:55 am to ThatMakesSense
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Posted on 5/28/19 at 8:56 am to ThatMakesSense
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I enjoyed the guys who snapchatyed their trip up.
Link?
Posted on 5/28/19 at 9:49 am to Woodreaux
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Going to the Himalayas would be a shitty, less enjoyable, more dangerous version of what we have in the United States.
There's nothing compelling about that big-arse rock pile and I don't know what calls all these perverts to it every year.
Your statements are rejecting human nature. It is in most of us to want to achieve this, in some innate way. If you grew up in the plains, you had it when you played 'King of the Mountain' or climbed a tree. Those raised in hills and mountains will race to the top as soon as their parents cut them free.
Just because Everest has become crowded, littered, and in some ways "easier due to $$$ (but that is mostly untrue)"... it is still the HIGHEST and still draws from within, from a place many of us have deep down. But yes, most of us bury that need to be highest, with reasonable rationalizations and risk assessments and budgets (of time and $$).
Nonetheless, Everest is still there.. and you and I haven't conquered it.
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