PhilliesDeacs
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I'd rather just watch Cliffhanger.
Do it pimp style: take a whole shitload of Viagra first.
I'm the same. I'd love to go to the base camp, look up at the mountain and then go back to my warm cozy bed. I have so much respect for those that climb it, but I'm not that crazy.
Do it pimp style: take a whole shitload of Viagra first.
I'm always interested in the reasons people have for climbing it. Supposedly the mentality and motivation is a huge factor in whether or not you make it - I know this seems like common sense, but it's still cool to have numbers showing selfish people (those who just want to be on top of the world/know they're the highest person on the planet) are less successful.
oh there's "whack off buckets" who marks the very beginning of the hike, i'm actually not sure how you even die this early in the hike
I met Beck Weathers 10+ years ago. His is one of the strorylines in "Into Thin Air" and he wrote is own book "Left For Dead". Both books are good reads (Into Thin Air much better) and Beck is one hell of a person to talk or listen to.I think I mentioned this in the book thread or somewhere else, but if you haven't read Into Thin Air, that's an obvious must for Everest lovers. But I also recently read High Crimes: The Fate of Everest in an Age of Greed and thought it was pretty interesting. I don't think it's as well written as Krakauer's book and it can be a little confusing following the names/stories with the way it is written, but it's definitely a side of Everest I don't think is shown as often.
I read somewhere today there are an estimated 200 bodies on the upper reaches of the mountains. Even those that die in the camps are often left there. Its too much energy to try and bring them back down.
It'd be so awesome if I froze mid-spooge, O-face, throwing devil horns up with my free hand.
Amaaaaazing. I'd definitely try to leave the most memorable frozen corpse possible. Maybe go bent-over, fully spread butt cheeks directly facing the hiking trail with a big smile on my face. If I'm really planning ahead, I could get a b-hole tattoo before the trip, making it even more memorable for future mountaineers.
It's so awful for the people around when someone is dying because there is so little they can do. Ugh.