Would you ever try and climb this big rock? Are you crazy? I like having 10 toes and 10 fingers... a nose, and lips.
There is some show I believe on Discovery Channel tonight about some amateurs who 'tried'(?) to climb it.
It's just silly! I wouldn't go near the top until they set up some kind of elevator you could ride up.
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Originally posted by PhlabibitApparently, about 1200 people have reached the summit but nearly 200 have died trying and only 50 bodies have been found.
Would you ever try and climb this big rock? Are you crazy? I like having 10 toes and 10 fingers... a nose, and lips.
There is some show I believe on Discovery Channel tonight about some amateurs who 'tried'(?) to climb it.
It's just silly! I wouldn't go near the top until they set up some kind of elevator you could ride up.
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That's only a 1 in 7 chance of being turned into a popcicle.
Originally posted by PhlabibitI listened to some audiobook on a group of people who climbed Everest. To me it seems like quite possibly one of the most retarded things you could ever do.
Would you ever try and climb this big rock? Are you crazy? I like having 10 toes and 10 fingers... a nose, and lips.
There is some show I believe on Discovery Channel tonight about some amateurs who 'tried'(?) to climb it.
It's just silly! I wouldn't go near the top until they set up some kind of elevator you could ride up.
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Originally posted by Daemon SinLess than 200 people have died trying to climb Everest as many succeded only to die on the way back down.
Apparently, about 1200 people have reached the summit but nearly 200 have died trying and only 50 bodies have been found.
That's only a 1 in 7 chance of being turned into a popcicle.
I looked out upon Everest, once upon a time.
And briefly I thought: "Hey. I'm gonna climb that sucker."
Then I remembered I suffer from vertigo when I stand on a chair.
So, I went back to my little hostel, popped 60 mg's of valium and drank half a bottle of whiskey.
The moral of this story is: Don't drink cheap Indian whiskey.
Originally posted by Daemon SinBut what are the odds that you stumble across a free frozen corpse? Pretty dang good, mister.
Apparently, about 1200 people have reached the summit but nearly 200 have died trying and only 50 bodies have been found.
That's only a 1 in 7 chance of being turned into a popcicle.
Cause, y'know, free corpse 'n all.
Originally posted by PhlabibitOne of my life goals is to reach base camp. I'd be happy with that.
Would you ever try and climb this big rock? Are you crazy? I like having 10 toes and 10 fingers... a nose, and lips.
There is some show I believe on Discovery Channel tonight about some amateurs who 'tried'(?) to climb it.
It's just silly! I wouldn't go near the top until they set up some kind of elevator you could ride up.
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A great book about a day on Everest which got seriously messed up is Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer. A good mountain climbing movie is Into the Void.
Top entertainment.
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Originally posted by Everyone hereI watched some movie 3 or 6 years ago about people who climb Everest. They all hang out near base camp, and one day someone needed to be 'rescued' on the mountain.
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I'm watching this movie with all these people in a camp around a fire talking about how they are going to get to the top... and can't help but sit there thinking,
"Do these people work on the top for some reason? Is that their home? Why are they going up? Is that where the supermarket is? Is it the post office up there or the bank?"
I just couldn't sit there and watch without trying to figure out WHY these people are all hanging around ready to climb the mountain.
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Originally posted by RagnorakInto thin Air was wild. how many people died during that storm?
One of my life goals is to reach base camp. I'd be happy with that.
A great book about a day on Everest which got seriously messed up is Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer. A good mountain climbing movie is Into the Void.
Top entertainment.
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I imagine Phlabs TV show is at least partially based on that book.