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Spent 100's of hours studying the 1996 Everest disaster. Taking q's
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Date: April 19th, 2026 9:17 PM Author: Vigorous Church Building Azn (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5858541&forum_id=2#49828160) |
Date: April 19th, 2026 9:29 PM Author: House-broken regret coffee pot should I go to Appalachian Climbing School (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5858541&forum_id=2#49828202) |
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Date: April 19th, 2026 9:30 PM Author: Vigorous Church Building Azn search ur heart (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5858541&forum_id=2#49828205) |
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Date: April 19th, 2026 9:32 PM Author: laughsome codepig How did you get to 100s? I watched the movie, a doc and read Into Thin Air in a week. What else did you learn in the extra 90+ hours?
My main take away was there’s no fucking way I’m climbing Everest. It’s just pure misery and you’re so fucked when you get to the top you can’t wait to go back down. |
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Date: April 19th, 2026 9:38 PM Author: Vigorous Church Building Azn if you're looking for additional materials you can study the books written by other climbers, several docs besides the PBS one, listen to interviews and podcasts, the argument between krakauer and tracy on youtube, etc. You can also study the history of the mountain, read into messner etc, and you've got to read and reread/rewatch everything multiple times. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5858541&forum_id=2#49828239) |
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Date: April 20th, 2026 9:01 AM Author: laughsome codepig You did not answer my question at all. I am not looking for more. I am asking what else I would learn that I didn’t learn in 10 hours of study. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5858541&forum_id=2#49828902) |
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Date: April 20th, 2026 9:36 AM Author: Vigorous Church Building Azn No you asked how to get to 100s of hours (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5858541&forum_id=2#49828965) |
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Date: April 20th, 2026 2:45 PM Author: laughsome codepig I had two questions. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5858541&forum_id=2#49829617) |
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Date: April 20th, 2026 2:51 PM Author: Vigorous Church Building Azn Don't talk to me like im some floosy LLM. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5858541&forum_id=2#49829630) |
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Date: April 19th, 2026 9:39 PM Author: beady-eyed library place of business lmao didnt even know krakauer is jewish
every single time |
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Date: April 19th, 2026 9:44 PM Author: lake adventurous voyeur wtf holy shit. he's half! (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5858541&forum_id=2#49828258) |
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Date: April 19th, 2026 9:50 PM Author: Vigorous Church Building Azn Fun fact. "Mount Everest" is named after a man named whose name is pronounced "Eve-er-est." (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5858541&forum_id=2#49828288) |
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Date: April 19th, 2026 9:39 PM Author: Abnormal cruise ship I read both krakauer's book and the MAF rebuttal book by boukreev. But it's been like 25 years.
Who are the heroes, villains? What moral lessons do you draw from it? What unique insights do you have? |
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Date: April 19th, 2026 9:47 PM Author: Vigorous Church Building Azn Lopsang is the villain, but he was likely paid by Pittman. The moral lesson is don't be a softie like Rob. I don't have anything unique to say really (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5858541&forum_id=2#49828275) |
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Date: April 19th, 2026 10:12 PM Author: Abnormal cruise ship It really is crazy just how fucking dangerous high-altitude mountaineering is. The story for like everyone who's a professional climber (sherpa or honkey) who survived everest 1996 is "later died on [other mountain]." (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5858541&forum_id=2#49828347) |
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Date: April 19th, 2026 10:15 PM Author: lake adventurous voyeur cr
yet 1/2 of xo tough guys who played some college ball seem to genuinely think that they could easily summit everest; 1/2 of it is schtick, but 1/2 of it is genuinely retarded xo tough guys |
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Date: April 19th, 2026 10:19 PM Author: Abnormal cruise ship Tbf, a good portion of the danger is clearly not avertable through enhanced skills or natural talent (and I'm including physiological tolerance for high-altitude exertion as "natural talent," even though HAPE is incredibly random and strikes super-experienced climbers). (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5858541&forum_id=2#49828360) |
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Date: April 19th, 2026 10:16 PM Author: Vigorous Church Building Azn yeah it's fucking nuts and another crazy part is the other major peaks like K2 and Annapurna, while essentially as tall, are significantly worse odds in terms of getting hit with an avalanche or falling the fuck off. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5858541&forum_id=2#49828355) |
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Date: April 19th, 2026 10:21 PM Author: Abnormal cruise ship Yeah. As a kid I did NOLS and AAI and wanted to be a bigtime climber, but looking back now...
maybe Black people are right on this one. |
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Date: April 19th, 2026 10:25 PM Author: Vigorous Church Building Azn pretty baller man i'm just a dweeb (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5858541&forum_id=2#49828376) |
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Date: April 19th, 2026 10:25 PM Author: lake adventurous voyeur this is evan39-esque:
https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2022/05/21/1100363030/meet-the-cool-62-year-old-kenyan-on-first-all-black-team-to-summit-everest |
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Date: April 20th, 2026 9:02 AM Author: laughsome codepig You spent hundreds of hours to learn this? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5858541&forum_id=2#49828905) |
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Date: April 20th, 2026 9:39 AM Author: Vigorous Church Building Azn Why are you MAF at my encyclopedic knowledge of everest (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5858541&forum_id=2#49828969) |
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Date: April 20th, 2026 10:19 PM Author: spectacular gaming laptop travel guidebook (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5858541&forum_id=2#49830893) |
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Date: April 19th, 2026 9:41 PM Author: Provocative blathering locale I read into the climb many years. Realized at that point that Americans like Krakauer are scum. They always hang out at the periphery of misery and looking to benefit. He actually made millions from his own book where he basically described that he's a faggot. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5858541&forum_id=2#49828248) |
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Date: April 19th, 2026 9:42 PM Author: Abnormal cruise ship We can say [CONTENT AUTO REDACTED] here. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5858541&forum_id=2#49828251) |
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Date: April 19th, 2026 9:52 PM Author: Vigorous Church Building Azn he's a failed outdoorsmin who became a writer, what's there to be mad about (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5858541&forum_id=2#49828295) |
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Date: April 20th, 2026 9:02 AM Author: laughsome codepig He just happened to be on that expedition (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5858541&forum_id=2#49828906) |
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Date: April 19th, 2026 9:42 PM Author: sienna glittery genital piercing Should I watch Dallas Buyers Club? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5858541&forum_id=2#49828253) |
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Date: April 19th, 2026 9:50 PM Author: Vigorous Church Building Azn search ur big gay heart (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5858541&forum_id=2#49828289) |
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Date: April 19th, 2026 9:45 PM Author: lake adventurous voyeur it's amazing that krakauer happened to be there for this -- and live to tell the tale. talk about god running the world. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5858541&forum_id=2#49828265) |
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Date: April 19th, 2026 9:48 PM Author: Vigorous Church Building Azn some theories say that his presence, and the presence of Pittman which was a reaction the Krakauer's last minute team change, was the cause of the event. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5858541&forum_id=2#49828281) |
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Date: April 19th, 2026 9:54 PM Author: lake adventurous voyeur explain pls (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5858541&forum_id=2#49828297) |
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Date: April 19th, 2026 10:05 PM Author: Vigorous Church Building Azn The theory is the presence of the journalist from Outside magazine (Krakauer) caused more than the usual competition between Adventure Consultants (Rob's team) and Mountain Madness (Scott's team). Krakuer's magazine was paying Rob with ad space ($55k worth; they only paid $10k in cash), and those ads would include things like the % of clients that summitted. Krakuer was also writing about the commercialization of Everest in general, so there was motivation to get as many climbers to the top as possible. But whether that influenced the late summit push (after the fixed rope delay of 2+ hours), the decision to ignore the pre-arranged turn-around time, and Rob's decision to escort Doug, isn't certain.
Maybe more directly, Pittman -- the weakest climber who the lead sherpa had to essentially drag to the top with a rope, causing him not to place the aforementioned fixed ropes and delaying both teams -- was added to Mountain Madness's team at the last minute as their journalist after Krakauer and Outside left the MM team for the AC team.
So taken together the presence of journalists, especially JK, can reasonably be seen to have changed the motivations and dynamics of the teams, and may have been a contributing cause to the tragedy, rather than a coincidence. |
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Date: April 19th, 2026 10:15 PM Author: Abnormal cruise ship IIRC, almost every third-party account (not krakauer or boukreev, although you could include boukreev in this) says that krakauer was bizarrely hard on sandy pittman, who no one else seems to think played any kind of noteworthily deleterious role. She was short-roped for an hour tops, and she was a paying client; she's probably a stronger climber than krakauer, but krakauer benefitted from summitting way before her. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5858541&forum_id=2#49828352) |
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Date: April 19th, 2026 10:20 PM Author: Vigorous Church Building Azn then you have to explain why Lopsang didn't set the fixed ropes above the south summit... (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5858541&forum_id=2#49828364) |
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Date: April 19th, 2026 9:45 PM Author: beady-eyed library place of business "Rowell criticized Krakauer's account, citing numerous inconsistencies in his narrative, and observed that Krakauer had been asleep in his tent while Boukreev was rescuing other climbers. Rowell argued that not only were Boukreev's actions heroic but his judgment was also prescient: “[Boukreev] foresaw problems with clients nearing camp, noted five other guides on the peak [Everest], and positioned himself to be rested and hydrated enough to respond to an emergency. His heroism was not a fluke."[5]"
lmfao at this literal kike sleeping in his tent while the heroic chad is out there saving lives, and then publishing a book where he jewishly sneers at and nitpicks the heroic dude
fucking amazing |
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Date: April 19th, 2026 9:49 PM Author: Vigorous Church Building Azn Boukreev could and did literally climb mount everest without oxygen and it was his professional responsibility to guide and save people. Some people say his selfishness in not using oxygen caused more harm than he later salvaged. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5858541&forum_id=2#49828285) |
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Date: April 19th, 2026 10:00 PM Author: beady-eyed library place of business wtf does him not using oxygen have to do with other people dying (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5858541&forum_id=2#49828312) |
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Date: April 19th, 2026 10:10 PM Author: Abnormal cruise ship Even if capable of operating without bottled oxygen, you can operate better with it. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5858541&forum_id=2#49828345) |
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Date: April 19th, 2026 10:10 PM Author: Vigorous Church Building Azn Some people say that without supplemental O's, Boukreev had to descend in front of the clients at more rapid pace, rather than assist them in the descent. Had he been in the mix with the clients, he may have saved more lives. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5858541&forum_id=2#49828346) |
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Date: April 19th, 2026 10:15 PM Author: beady-eyed library place of business but it says he deliberately went down ahead of the clients, by himself, so he could get help
sounds like the "supplemental oxygen" complaint is just literal jews trying to unjustly pin blame on the only chad who was actually saving lives instead of jewishly sitting around "taking notes" so he could jewishly publish a book criticizing everyone else |
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Date: April 19th, 2026 10:21 PM Author: Vigorous Church Building Azn yeah and the corroborating witness is dead. im not saying he didn't save people, but the idea that a guide is better off at camp than guiding clients is a bit retarded (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5858541&forum_id=2#49828367) |
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Date: April 19th, 2026 10:24 PM Author: beady-eyed library place of business maybe if the clients didn't want to die they shouldn't have gone up to the top of mount everest
did anyone ever think of that? |
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Date: April 19th, 2026 10:32 PM Author: Vigorous Church Building Azn not that exactly no (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5858541&forum_id=2#49828387) |
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Date: April 19th, 2026 10:26 PM Author: Abnormal cruise ship My (very rusty) recollection after reading both books is that krakauer is indeed a disingenuous little piece of shit, but his criticisms of boukreev are probably correct. Literally not a single person, dead or alive, doubted that he was the strongest climber on the mountain, but his abilities as a guide specifically were questionable. Boukreev says that Fischer's displeasure with his performance was customer-service/BizDev-based, but he's fucking dead so who's to know. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5858541&forum_id=2#49828378) |
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Date: April 19th, 2026 10:33 PM Author: Vigorous Church Building Azn yeah i think he was probably selfish and scott had to work around that fact so they came up with compromises that didn't really make sense for a guide but he wanted him up there (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5858541&forum_id=2#49828389) |
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Date: April 19th, 2026 10:22 PM Author: Swashbuckling den windowlicker Nah he didn't go down for help, he went down before any of the issues began. He went back out to help later after hearing people were in trouble.
I don't think Bookreev did anything particularly wrong though. He was against using oxygen because he thought it was dangerous to rely on it. You're extra fucked if you run out of it etc |
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Date: April 19th, 2026 10:35 PM Author: Vigorous Church Building Azn yeah and i mean that kinda makes sense, but also not really. if you have oxygen you are better off than without. you might run out of oxygen and you're fucked immediately, which is not the case without it, but you can definitely stay up longer with it. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5858541&forum_id=2#49828393) |
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Date: April 19th, 2026 10:35 PM Author: maniacal indirect expression office How hard is climbing Everest really? Wasn’t one of the people on the expedition a mousy small Japanese lady?
Can you just shell out a bunch of money and be spoon fed the climb. Can the typical American male train for a couple months then be good to go |
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Date: April 19th, 2026 10:36 PM Author: Vigorous Church Building Azn the mousy japanese lady had summited the tallest mountains on the 6 other continents before the everest expedition in 1996. in general yes you are mostly spoon fed with fixed ropes, ladders, etc, but its still difficult and you have to be in pretty good shape, and you also generally have to test your body in high altitude on other mountains first. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5858541&forum_id=2#49828395) |
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Date: April 20th, 2026 9:18 AM Author: maniacal indirect expression office she was 90lbs, prob irresponsible regardless of experience when you consider they have to carry a bunch of shit
Namba died from exhaustion and exposure. Jon Krakauer's book, Into Thin Air, describes the anguish of Neal Beidleman, who felt guilty that he was unable to do anything more to save Namba. Boukreev's book, The Climb, expressed profound regret at her lonely death, saying that she was just a little 90-pound woman and that someone should have dragged her back to camp so she could at least die among her companions. |
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Date: April 20th, 2026 2:37 PM Author: Vigorous Church Building Azn You can say that about all the clients. Doug sucked. Beck wasn't great. I dont get singling her out. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5858541&forum_id=2#49829601) |
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Date: April 20th, 2026 5:41 PM Author: maniacal indirect expression office at least they were men and could, with more training, have gotten to a higher level of competency.
its like the military, to what degree are these 90lb women LARPing as serious climbers just because they had sherpas pushing them the entire way |
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Date: April 20th, 2026 6:31 PM Author: Vigorous Church Building Azn This is retarded (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5858541&forum_id=2#49830247) |
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Date: April 20th, 2026 11:15 PM Author: maniacal indirect expression office (Guy who thinks its good women are allowed in the infantry) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5858541&forum_id=2#49831053) |
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Date: April 19th, 2026 10:51 PM Author: At-the-ready cumskin gunner After watching that stuff does it make you want to climb anything or no never?
I thought this TV documentary on Reinhold Messner was one of the 180 things Werner Herzog directed. Lots of great footage. Also to the point above - all the sherpas and mountaineers died - one of the big moments is when Reinhold talks about his brother dying
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dark_Glow_of_the_Mountains (German: Gasherbrum – Der leuchtende Berg) |
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Date: April 19th, 2026 10:55 PM Author: Vigorous Church Building Azn Messner makes me want to climb something more than the everest stuff or honnold or anyone else. His whole point is he wanted to discover himself and it just so happens everest helped him do that. I dont have any desire to climb for the accomplishment, not that I could either way (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5858541&forum_id=2#49828440) |
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Date: April 20th, 2026 9:11 AM Author: At-the-ready cumskin gunner ! Well put, ty. And I feel that too (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5858541&forum_id=2#49828926) |
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Date: April 19th, 2026 10:59 PM Author: fiercely-loyal rambunctious new version imagine being near the top of Everest and suddenly an earthquake hits you and then the avalanches come https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015_Mount_Everest_avalanches |
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Date: April 19th, 2026 11:00 PM Author: Vigorous Church Building Azn Dying at base camp would suck (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5858541&forum_id=2#49828454) |
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Date: April 19th, 2026 11:01 PM Author: fiercely-loyal rambunctious new version Yes I just can't imagine the fear you would experience |
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Date: April 19th, 2026 11:03 PM Author: Vigorous Church Building Azn I've looked into dying in an avalanche and it definitely sucks but goes fast at the end (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5858541&forum_id=2#49828466) |
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Date: April 20th, 2026 2:47 PM Author: laughsome codepig Asphyxiation is a terrible way to go, until suddenly it’s a fine way to die. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5858541&forum_id=2#49829619) |
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Date: April 20th, 2026 2:49 PM Author: Vigorous Church Building Azn Yeah exactly. Chronic oxygen deprivation and hypothermia seem more chill (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5858541&forum_id=2#49829625) |
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Date: April 19th, 2026 11:13 PM Author: gold faggotry principal's office Is it safer today? It's it (the safety, the experience) even worse than 30 years ago given the huge crowds waiting in line to summit? That aspect of it looks miserable.
I've thought about going for one of the relatively easier very high altitude climbs line Cho Oyu. |
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Date: April 20th, 2026 9:15 AM Author: At-the-ready cumskin gunner In-house at a corp, I worked with a dude who told everyone that his hobby was mountain climbing and he would pay up to do all those. His desktop background was climbing pics. Lean wiry guy, seemed pretty good shape, maybe mid 50s. Anyway, even after doing a lot of other tall mountains, he had some kind of altitude sickness climbing Everest, turned blue, maybe had a collapsed lung, got airlifted down, and had to stay in a Nepalese hospital for a month. Was already lean and he lost maybe 25% of his bodyweight. He was out of work for a few months - and when he came back, he was like yeah OK I'm done with climbing now (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5858541&forum_id=2#49828934) |
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Date: April 20th, 2026 9:23 AM Author: fiercely-loyal rambunctious new version (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5858541&forum_id=2#49828943) |
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Date: April 20th, 2026 2:46 PM Author: laughsome codepig Reading into thin air really convinced me that I was never going to climb Everest. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5858541&forum_id=2#49829618) |
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Date: April 20th, 2026 8:37 PM Author: Vigorous Church Building Azn (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5858541&forum_id=2#49830637) |
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Date: April 20th, 2026 5:55 PM Author: multi-colored idea he suggested private investor 180 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5858541&forum_id=2#49830161) |
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Date: April 20th, 2026 8:25 PM Author: At-the-ready cumskin gunner wonderful post-moniker synergy. yeah this dude wore 3 piece suits to the office, was a very smooth older man, and would manage to drop in conversation "oh yes, i'm going back to nepal next month for another mountain climb." great shtick, but he lived it (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5858541&forum_id=2#49830598) |
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Date: April 20th, 2026 8:37 PM Author: Vigorous Church Building Azn (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5858541&forum_id=2#49830638) |
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Date: April 20th, 2026 9:29 AM Author: maniacal indirect expression office Thoughts on Mike Tracy trashing Krakauer?
https://jonkrakauer.medium.com/the-youtuber-obsessed-with-trashing-my-book-chapter-two-8dc163beaba1 |
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Date: April 20th, 2026 9:37 AM Author: Vigorous Church Building Azn Tracy is literally a shitttigator lmao (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5858541&forum_id=2#49828966) |
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Date: April 20th, 2026 2:29 PM Author: Abnormal cruise ship The guy has a weird hate-infatuation with krakauer IIRC. Only ever reports from the very specific anti-krakauer perspective. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5858541&forum_id=2#49829592) |
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Date: April 20th, 2026 2:39 PM Author: Vigorous Church Building Azn If you listen to him for more than 2 minutes you agree with krakauer that he has the invective and derision of a divorce attorney (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5858541&forum_id=2#49829605) |
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Date: April 20th, 2026 6:38 PM Author: Abnormal cruise ship (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5858541&forum_id=2#49830266) |
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Date: April 20th, 2026 8:56 PM Author: At-the-ready cumskin gunner Scott Fischer and Rob Hall are both gorgeous men (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5858541&forum_id=2#49830685) |
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Date: April 20th, 2026 8:58 PM Author: Vigorous Church Building Azn https://images.mubicdn.net/images/cast_member/151819/cache-554903-1591694059/image-w856.jpg
https://himalayantrekking.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Rob-Hall-Founder-of-Adventure-Consultants.webp |
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Date: April 20th, 2026 11:16 PM Author: At-the-ready cumskin gunner tyty
here are 2 of my favorite clips from gasherbrum
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HtXwLGLcFrY&t=662s
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HtXwLGLcFrY&t=1010s |
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Date: April 21st, 2026 8:38 PM Author: Vigorous Church Building Azn 180 cr friend 180 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5858541&forum_id=2#49833105) |
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Date: April 21st, 2026 8:49 PM Author: At-the-ready cumskin gunner (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5858541&forum_id=2#49833134) |
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Date: April 20th, 2026 3:18 PM Author: light internet-worthy crotch are there bars on Mount Everest like at ski resorts? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5858541&forum_id=2#49829717) |
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Date: April 20th, 2026 4:53 PM Author: Vigorous Church Building Azn Not on the mountain but in the villages nearby (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5858541&forum_id=2#49830011) |
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Date: April 20th, 2026 3:37 PM Author: big brindle brunch dragon Lmao this takes 7 to 9 weeks to do? I always thought this was like some 4 hour tourist trap like the nyc marathon lmao. I would never do this (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5858541&forum_id=2#49829821) |
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Date: April 20th, 2026 4:47 PM Author: Vigorous Church Building Azn Yes you have to progressively acclimatize and end up climbing the equivalent of the height of the mountain twice given multiple ascents and descents between camps. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5858541&forum_id=2#49829996) |
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Date: April 20th, 2026 5:44 PM Author: beady-eyed library place of business lmao what total flame (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5858541&forum_id=2#49830145) |
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Date: April 20th, 2026 6:39 PM Author: Vigorous Church Building Azn the peak is the height that some commercial airlines fly at (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5858541&forum_id=2#49830267) |
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Date: April 20th, 2026 6:40 PM Author: beady-eyed library place of business i thought that planes all avoid the himalayas so things won't Go Wrong (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5858541&forum_id=2#49830272) |
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Date: April 20th, 2026 6:42 PM Author: Vigorous Church Building Azn the peak of everest is 30,000 ft (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5858541&forum_id=2#49830277) |
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Date: April 21st, 2026 8:34 AM Author: laughsome codepig What’s your LSAT score? Obviously planes avoid things that are literally in their way. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5858541&forum_id=2#49831510) |
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Date: April 20th, 2026 4:48 PM Author: Bipolar selfie Same wtf... thought it was like a day (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5858541&forum_id=2#49829998) |
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Date: April 20th, 2026 10:11 PM Author: Vigorous Church Building Azn there's a guy working on remote acclimatization technology (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5858541&forum_id=2#49830874) |
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Date: April 20th, 2026 10:18 PM Author: lake adventurous voyeur https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5858541&mc=88&forum_id=2#49828351 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5858541&forum_id=2#49830892) |
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Date: April 21st, 2026 8:34 AM Author: light internet-worthy crotch lol wtf fr fr I thought it took like 2 or 3 days to climb, not 2 months. |
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Date: April 21st, 2026 8:39 AM Author: House-broken regret coffee pot Everest is flame. You fly or drive over halfway to the top.
On the Tibet (North) side, you can drive via jeep to North Base Camp, which sits around 16,900 to 17,100 feet (5,200m) above sea level. On the Nepal (South) side, you typically fly into Lukla and trek for several days to Base Camp, which is at roughly 17,598 feet (5,364m). |
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Date: April 21st, 2026 8:40 AM Author: light internet-worthy crotch Why can't a helicopter just drop someone off at the summit? Seems a lot safer and chill imo (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5858541&forum_id=2#49831518) |
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Date: April 21st, 2026 9:11 AM Author: Vigorous Church Building Azn Helicopters can only go as high as approximately the ice fall just above base camp, because above that the air is too thin for the rotor to work (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5858541&forum_id=2#49831585) |
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Date: April 21st, 2026 9:12 AM Author: Vigorous Church Building Azn Yes the Everest climb is not the longest climb you can do. Denali is a taller climb from base to peak. But everest is the tallest peak above sea level and the thinnest air.
Its also not the closest point on earth to space. Thats a peak in Ecuador, which is closer to space due to the bulge of the earth at the equator. |
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Date: April 21st, 2026 9:15 AM Author: lake adventurous voyeur Kili is the most prominent peak in the world I think. There’s nothing else around it. Looks alpha as fuck. Everest is surrounded by other big mountains and doesn’t look so impressive.
I submitted |
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Date: April 21st, 2026 9:23 AM Author: light internet-worthy crotch have you ever been to Everest? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5858541&forum_id=2#49831613) |
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Date: April 21st, 2026 9:36 AM Author: lake adventurous voyeur nope. been to KTM only in nepal. would like to do the EBC trek someday, but wife has no interest in doing a milti-day hike (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5858541&forum_id=2#49831645) |
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Date: April 21st, 2026 9:51 AM Author: light internet-worthy crotch dat too much walkin! (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5858541&forum_id=2#49831684) |
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Date: April 21st, 2026 10:03 AM Author: lake adventurous voyeur she'd love multiple 1 day hikes if we could stay in decent hotels. she's against tents or dorm-style accommodations. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5858541&forum_id=2#49831710) |
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Date: April 21st, 2026 9:23 AM Author: Vigorous Church Building Azn Yeah I think that's right (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5858541&forum_id=2#49831616) |
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Date: April 21st, 2026 9:13 AM Author: lake adventurous voyeur Dumb post. The second half is 99.99% of the effort. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5858541&forum_id=2#49831590) |
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Date: April 21st, 2026 9:27 AM Author: House-broken regret coffee pot wow ty pumo (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5858541&forum_id=2#49831621) |
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Date: April 21st, 2026 9:29 AM Author: light internet-worthy crotch lol DBG (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5858541&forum_id=2#49831626) |
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Date: April 21st, 2026 3:26 PM Author: big brindle brunch dragon I’ve done it 3 times. You’re wrong. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5858541&forum_id=2#49832327) |
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Date: July 13th, 2026 7:12 PM Author: Metaphysics is gay (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5858541&forum_id=2#49997450) |
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Date: July 13th, 2026 8:21 PM Author: Frutiger Aero (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5858541&forum_id=2#49997633) |