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Helicopters and Mount Everest
Wise_a
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A couple of weeks ago I got hooked on that show on the Discovery Channel called "Everest: Beyond the Limit". If you haven't seen it, here's the link:
http://dsc.discovery.com/convergence/everestbeyond/everestbeyond.html
Its seriously incredible how many ways you can die at that height. Lack of oxygen, altitude sickness, hypothermia, frostbite, etc. The most ridiculous part for me is that if you die while making a summit attempt, your body just stays where it lies. There is no way for anyone to get you down off the mountain. Apparently helicopters can't go that high, so its really one of the last places on earth where noone can help you. Its totally up to you if you live or die.
Its pretty awesome stuff. Anybody see this show? Anybody ever climb a mountain in real life? Is there any cool mountainous features near where you live that are good to hike?
http://dsc.discovery.com/convergence/everestbeyond/everestbeyond.html
Its seriously incredible how many ways you can die at that height. Lack of oxygen, altitude sickness, hypothermia, frostbite, etc. The most ridiculous part for me is that if you die while making a summit attempt, your body just stays where it lies. There is no way for anyone to get you down off the mountain. Apparently helicopters can't go that high, so its really one of the last places on earth where noone can help you. Its totally up to you if you live or die.
Double-amputee climber Mark Inglis revealed in an interview with the press on May 23, 2006, that his climbing party, and many others, had passed a distressed climber, David Sharp, on May 15, sheltering under a rock overhang 450 meters below the summit, without attempting a rescue. The revelation sparked wide debate on climbing ethics, especially as applied to Everest. The climbers who left him said that the rescue efforts would be useless and only cause more deaths because of how many people it would have taken to pull him off. Much of this controversy was captured by the Discovery Channel while filming the television program Everest: Beyond the Limit.
As this debate raged, on May 26, Australian climber Lincoln Hall was found alive, after being declared dead the day before. He was found by a party of four climbers (Dan Mazur, Andrew Brash, Myles Osborne and Jangbu Sherpa) who, giving up their own summit attempt, stayed with Hall and descended with him and a party of 11 Sherpas sent up to carry him down. Hall later fully recovered.
Its pretty awesome stuff. Anybody see this show? Anybody ever climb a mountain in real life? Is there any cool mountainous features near where you live that are good to hike?
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Oh crap we can't do that anymore, can we?
I pass two or three dead or dying cleaning ladies every day. Sometimes you gotta realize that it's either I get to the top, or they get to the bottom. Choices are tough.
I guess only people from Sydney will understand that.
and i want to read into thin air pretty bad
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_summits
quite a touching movie if you ask me.
it is a very intense show
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It was a fantastic movie, and featured Colm Meany in a role I cannot recall.
The air isn't thick enough for the blades to provide lift.
Although they say that climbing this is even harder than everest:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K2
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Oh wait that's only funny when Metalocalypse does it.
he asked if anyone had climbed some mountains
i went up a couple mountains
i didn't say i did it fucking professionally
next?
Thats what I thought. At the same time, wouldn't you think they would come up with some kind of system to actually get dead / dying people off the mountain?
Right now, all they do is rely on sherpas.
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/06/0616_050616_nepalporter.html
i used to live at mount colah
and with the crap bus service man it was such a trek to get home from the train station
bodies everywhere
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And yes, I'm aware that it sounds like a fourteen inch cock.
What if the helicopters were on a treadmill?
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what you mean like a system of pulleys or something
a ski lift perhaps
i thought...
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nevermind
Also, I'm pretty sure that few countries consider it a legal obligation to help someone out. You're doing something like that for the thrill of it - You fuck up don't expect other civillians to go out on a limb for you.
It makes me think of those people who die from auto-erotic asphyxiation. You can't be overly surprised when one of them gets it wrong.
Yeah, basically. I mean it would certainly solve all the moral quandaries and stuff.
Also, I always wondered why they didn't just pack a parachute in with their shit. If they got stuck, or they got into a last ditch situation, they could always just jump off one of the cliffs and put up your parachute.
All are relatively weak scores in terms of climbing, but I count them as notable accomplishments. Because i'm a sissy.
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When I visited CA last October, the snow cap was gone.
GOD DAMN YOU GLOBAL WARMING!
Did you feel any effects from the altitude?
mountain that exceeds fourteen thousand feet, there's a bunch of them in the rockies
it's not particularly difficult, but the air can get thin and if you're not used to the altitude it sucks
Pretty much. Note I said "surprised" not "sympathetic". That is another matter entirely.
I always assume his characters are either bartenders or engineers or a combination of the two (drunk engineer, really smart bartender)
Actually, I felt them the most in St. Kitts - as it's nearer the equator.
The air was very very heavy, wet, moist, hot - breathing was very difficult.
I didn't feel any altitude issues at Long's or in Switzerland though.
well it would probably add a lot of weight and require a higher cliff than they are likely to encounter regularly
and i think theres probably more steep hills that actual cliffs
Or dudes with cars that have a liscence plate that says "azz kikr".
They have bodies that you literally have to step over up there because its not practical to even move them out of the way.
I'd say its pretty much every man for himself once you reach the "death zone"