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When Erhard Loretan and his fellow Swiss climber Jean Troillet reached their advance base camp at 5,850m on the Rongbuk glacier, Tibet, late on 30 August 1986 they had set a new standard in extreme alpinism – to the summit of Everest (8,850m) and back in less than two days, no sherpas, no rope, no bottled oxygen; for the last 1000m they did not even take a rucksack. The pair climbed mainly at night, so as not to overheat in their down suits, and rested during the day. Meticulous in its planning and stylish in its execution, their ascent of the mountain's North Face via the Japanese and Hornbein couloirs was described by the Polish mountaineer Voytek Kurtyka as "night-naked climbing".


The audacity of the pair's Everest ascent was matched by the literal cheek of their descent – a four-hour sitting glissade of the entire North Face, or to put it in less technical terms, perhaps the longest and highest bum slide in the world. Troillet described it thus: "It was crazy... we were sitting side by side, looking at each other, laughing, digging our ice-axes into the snow, flying along." And in their oxygen-starved hallucinations they were accompanied by marching bands.


http://www.independent.co.uk/news/o...opes-or-oxygen-in-under-two-days-2327034.html


http://www.montagna.tv/cms/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/Hornbein-Couloir-Route.jpg
 
Peregrinator said:
The audacity of the pair's Everest ascent was matched by the literal cheek of their descent – a four-hour sitting glissade of the entire North Face, or to put it in less technical terms, perhaps the longest and highest bum slide in the world. Troillet described it thus: "It was crazy... we were sitting side by side, looking at each other, laughing, digging our ice-axes into the snow, flying along." And in their oxygen-starved hallucinations they were accompanied by marching bands.
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Fuck.........
 
thør said:
Fuck.........
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Yeah, huh? An astounding event. Possibly somewhat suicidal, but those guys didn't buy their own booze that year. Loretan is dead, died guiding, but I think Troillet is still out there somewhere.
 
Peregrinator said:
Yeah, huh? An astounding event. Possibly somewhat suicidal, but those guys didn't buy their own booze that year. Loretan is dead, died guiding, but I think Troillet is still out there somewhere.
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Some folk live on the edge. Its easy to go either way.
 
thør said:
getting to be ski season, here.......
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Killington has snow on the trails, but I doubt they're open yet. Just laying down the base, I guess. We were saying we want to do some downhill this year. I have a pair of AT skis I need to get bindings on...
 
Peregrinator said:
Killington has snow on the trails, but I doubt they're open yet. Just laying down the base, I guess. We were saying we want to do some downhill this year. I have a pair of AT skis I need to get bindings on...
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Skis without mounted binding? Fence posts........
 
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