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Posted on 4/30/17 at 5:39 pm to bricksandstones
Call me crazy, i guess i enjoy breathing too much
Posted on 4/30/17 at 7:46 pm to Jim Rockford
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Last year, while attempting a new route up Shishapangma, in Tibet, Steck and a partner discovered the bodies of Alex Lowe, the American climber, and David Bridges, a photographer from Aspen, who had both been buried in an avalanche there in 1999. Lowe, who was widely considered to be the best mountaineer of his generation, was also forty when he died. Steck and Lowe are now forever linked, in the alpinists’ circle of death. Steck’s demise is a reminder, as though another one were ever necessary, that mountain climbing is an extremely perilous endeavor, and that even its strongest and most talented practitioners, experts by necessity in the art of risk assessment, need a great deal of luck to make it to old age.
Posted on 4/30/17 at 7:52 pm to Nado Jenkins83
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He fell 3000 feet
Jesus Christ, that's over half a mile
Posted on 4/30/17 at 7:54 pm to PrimeTime Money
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don't understand mountain climbing. It's like... why? If you gave me the option to climb a mountain or not climb a mountain, I'm gonna not climb a mountain every time and find something better to do.
I don't climb mountains every single day and am pretty happy.
Posted on 4/30/17 at 7:58 pm to VolInBavaria
Wonder what was going through his head as he fell.
Posted on 4/30/17 at 8:11 pm to BRgetthenet
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Wonder what was going through his head as he fell.
Ahhh! Woooh! What’s happening? Who am I? Why am I here? What’s my purpose in life? What do I mean by who am I? Okay okay, calm down calm down get a grip now. Ooh, this is an interesting sensation. What is it? Its a sort of tingling in my… well I suppose I better start finding names for things. Lets call it a… tail! Yeah! Tail! And hey, what’s this roaring sound, whooshing past what I’m suddenly gonna call my head? Wind! Is that a good name? It’ll do. Yeah, this is really exciting. I’m dizzy with anticipation! Or is it the wind? There’s an awful lot of that now isn’t it? And what’s this thing coming toward me very fast? So big and flat and round, it needs a big wide sounding name like ‘Ow’, ‘Ownge’, ‘Round’, ‘Ground’! That’s it! Ground! Ha! I wonder if it’ll be friends with me? Hello Ground!
[dies]
Posted on 4/30/17 at 8:15 pm to DavidTheGnome
Posted on 4/30/17 at 8:27 pm to TennesseeFan25
quote:did you just assume nature's gender?
That's amazing, the only caveat is though nature only has to win once, and this was her time
Posted on 4/30/17 at 8:33 pm to DavidTheGnome
Wonder what the first thing to go through his mind was once he made impact.
Posted on 4/30/17 at 8:36 pm to PrimeTime Money
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I don't understand mountain climbing. It's like... why?
If you gave me the option to climb a mountain or not climb a mountain, I'm gonna not climb a mountain every time and find something better to do.
I have never wanted to climb a mountain either...but I am sure he would not really understand my desire to sit in front of a computer reading this bullshite for hours at a time either.
Posted on 4/30/17 at 9:06 pm to boddagetta
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Died doing what he loved.
I imagine that after he lost that first limb, he suddenly didn't love it so much, to die for it?
Posted on 4/30/17 at 9:16 pm to J Murdah
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did you just assume nature's gender?
Given how capricious it is, is there any doubt?
And the mountains I like climbing are like Brasstown Bald or Magazine Mountain or Pikes Peak, where you can drive up.
Posted on 4/30/17 at 9:19 pm to Jim Rockford
quote:did he have more than one?
six rescuers discovered a body of the multiple-record holder mountaineer
Posted on 4/30/17 at 9:22 pm to East Coast Band
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Scattered body parts or whole, I thought they left any body who had died trying to climb Everest right where they had died.
Yes and no. You can pay for the body to be "moved" or brought down. Also, apparently the Chinese get weird about it every now and then and clean up some of the bodies.
Posted on 4/30/17 at 9:25 pm to Jcorye1
quote:Nepal?
apparently the Chinese get weird about it
Posted on 4/30/17 at 9:40 pm to Kafka
Everest is on the Nepal / China border.
Posted on 4/30/17 at 10:06 pm to BRgetthenet
Most likely a sharp rock or a dagger-shaped shard of ice.
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