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re: Deadly climbing season in the Himalayas
Posted on 5/28/19 at 9:51 am to Jim Rockford
Posted on 5/28/19 at 9:51 am to Jim Rockford
Mountain climbing is fascinating to me. In the late 80's, my dad worked with a guy named Vern Tejas in Alaska. He's an eccentric mountain climbing living legend.
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Posted on 5/28/19 at 9:52 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.
Posted on 5/28/19 at 9:52 am to jdd48
We can’t have plastic straws, but we can leave tons of garbage on the mountain? I thought these climber types were Mother Earth spiritual types with prayer flags and incense.
Posted on 5/28/19 at 9:54 am to pensacola
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I thought these climber types were Mother Earth spiritual types with prayer flags and incense.
rich businessmen?
Posted on 5/28/19 at 10:01 am to pensacola
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We can’t have plastic straws, but we can leave tons of garbage on the mountain?
I'm not saying the rationalization is reasonable or ethical.. but when you are in the "Death Zone" and you are utterly and completely exhausted, and each step feels like 1,000 steps, and your internal ethics tells you to take the empty oxygen bottle to the recycle bin at base camp.. yea, I can see why the place gets littered.
Posted on 5/28/19 at 10:04 am to jdd48
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Vern Tejas
First to solo Denali in Winter. Climbed with an aluminum ladder strapped to his back in case he fell in a crevasse.
Posted on 5/28/19 at 10:44 am to jdd48
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Mountain climbing is fascinating to me. In the late 80's, my dad worked with a guy named Vern Tejas in Alaska. He's an eccentric mountain climbing living legend.
Vern is a god of mountaineering. He has climbed the Seven Summits ten times. He is a pretty good writer (by climber standards) and has multiple books in print. Seventy Summits is a good one. If you happen to be climbing Denali and hear a violin it isn't you maker calling you home, it's just Vern.
Posted on 5/28/19 at 11:13 am to Ace Midnight
Here's a warped thought:
You've got pictures that show the real thing.
Get some life size blowups. Mount them on wood. Take them to New Orleans. Rent a spot. Charge people to be photographed being on top of Everest at sea level.
How to make money and say something that would get press coverage. Once everybody can get a picture, it becomes less valuable.
You've got pictures that show the real thing.
Get some life size blowups. Mount them on wood. Take them to New Orleans. Rent a spot. Charge people to be photographed being on top of Everest at sea level.
How to make money and say something that would get press coverage. Once everybody can get a picture, it becomes less valuable.
Posted on 5/29/19 at 12:34 am to JPinLondon
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Your statements are rejecting human nature
I think your observation are correct; upvoted.
Yeah, there's exhilaration in trolling death. There's also a nagging counter emotion working as a self-preservation mechanism which is real as well. Having to confront and subdue the later in order to enjoy the former is a pain in the arse!
I'm a simple man, a good time doesn't need to make me shite my pants!
Posted on 5/29/19 at 2:05 am to Globetrotter747
As long as you have the money you can
Posted on 6/5/19 at 6:39 pm to Jim Rockford
[quote]Eight climbers are presumed to have been killed in a large avalanche on the flanks of Nanda Devi East / Sunanda Devi in the Indian Himalaya while attempting an unclimbed satellite peak referred to by its elevation as Peak 6477. Photos from a helicopter search conducted by the Indian military on June 3 showed evidence of five bodies in the avalanche debris, which was near their last known camp at around 5400 meters. The other three members of the group are presumed dead. Read the story at Alpinist.com: LINK ]
Posted on 6/5/19 at 6:49 pm to Jim Rockford
local guy died on Mt Rainier. Helluva guy and a major figure in the fight against ISIS. A real life hero
LINK
His return home
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A climber once described as “Superman and Captain American combined,” died during a rockfall on Mount Rainier that rolled through his campsite last week.
William Dean, 45, of Juneau, Alaska was taken to the country medical examiner’s office in Tacoma, Washington after officials first received a 911 call at 8 p.m on May 30, KOMO-TV reported.
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Dean attended West Point from 1993-1997 and the Naval Postgraduate School from 2009 to 2011, according to LinkedIn.
He served with Special Forces and 1st Special Forces Operational Detachment Delta and he had retired just last year to return home to Alaska.
His return home
This post was edited on 6/5/19 at 6:54 pm
Posted on 6/5/19 at 7:20 pm to JackieTreehorn
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Beck Weathers said he would give the trip 2 thumbs down if he could.
That’s the funniest thing I’ve seen on this site in a long time
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