"Because it's there."

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http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/avalanche-everest-injures-sherpa-guide-16233647

Close one, this. Could have been a major league tragedy.

A Nepalese mountaineering official says a major avalanche has swept the western slopes of Mount Everest. It injured at least one Sherpa guide and panicked hundreds of climbers trying to reach the world's highest peak.


Tilak Pandey of Nepal's Mountaineering Department said Saturday that the avalanche swept the slopes late in the previous afternoon near the Camp 1 area, about 6,100 meters (20,000 feet) altitude.

One Nepalese Sherpa guide was hit by the avalanche and was flown to a hospital in the capital, Katmandu.

The avalanche came as the hundreds of mountaineers were preparing to climb Everest's slopes after weeks of acclimatizing at base camp. Climbers attempt to reach the 8,850-meter (29,035-foot) summit during mid-May when weather gets favorable.

A more personal perspective:

http://www.neverstopexploring.com/b...ate-avalanche-at-base-camp-1-one-rescued.html

 

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First climber of season summits Mount McKinley

one down, 930+ to go......

Story

 

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http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ltbluxtItc1r3wj2lo1_500.jpg

 

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http://io9.com/5907776/this-is-the-...ture?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=pulsenews

 

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http://io9.com/5907776/this-is-the-...ture?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=pulsenews

Add vertical movement and an auto belay system to that wall.

 

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Add vertical movement and an auto belay system to that wall.

I want one that can live outside and have a waterfall that I turn on in November...

 

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I want one that can live outside and have a waterfall that I turn on in November...

Indoors, waterfall, and it's the every morning workout!

 

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http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3jguiqUPa1qh33xeo1_500.jpg

 

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http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3mm9jpxOw1qzr6ooo1_500.jpg

 

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http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3oesd4X4X1rrmw03o1_500.jpg

 

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Man sets world record by surfing 78-foot wave

 

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Man sets world record by surfing 78-foot wave

Holy shit.

 

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Holy shit.

Fuck me, just driving the watercraft out there.........

 

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Looks like unfinished business

Climbing Denali in the tracks of Belmore Browne

http://media.adn.com/smedia/2012/05/12/22/06/wj33W.St.7.jpg

 

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Part I: Anatomy of a tragedy high on Alaska's Mount McKinley

 

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Part 2: Tragedy on Mount McKinley: Only bad choices left

 

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That's a sad story, Thor. I'm still working my way through it, but it looks so far like Staeheli did everything right and Neiderer was just really unfortunate.

Dangerous fucking mountain, that.

 

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Dangerous fucking mountain, that.

Indeed. Sometimes a walk-up. Sometimes, Hell on Earth.

 

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Indeed. Sometimes a walk-up. Sometimes, Hell on Earth.

It will totally suck you in. Arctic climate+PNW weather+very, very high altitude=trouble.

 

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Part I: Anatomy of a tragedy high on Alaska's Mount McKinley

I think I know the guy who was in charge when this happened:

In that way, the fall was eerily reminscent of the disaster on Ptarmigan Peak on the edge of Anchorage in 1997. Two University of Alaska Anchorage climbing instructors in that case ignored the need to anchor themselves to the mountain to provide protection for inexperienced climbers in the event of a fall. When one student slipped, he started a chain reaction that took out an entire rope team, which slid into another below and then another. Eventually, there were 12 people -- 10 students and two instructors -- tumbling thousands of feet toward the rock at the base of the peak's north couloir. Two of them died. The others suffered various injuries, some severe. The university eventually paid more than $1 million to settle legal claims, and the school's climbing program was disbanded.

He might also be the guy who took over afterwards.

 

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It will totally suck you in. Arctic climate+PNW weather+very, very high altitude=trouble.

Then, the weather turns.........and bits ya in the ass.

I think I know the guy who was in charge when this happened:



He might also be the guy who took over afterwards.

I don't know the crew over there. I sit on the Ptarmigan Peak memorial bench, occasionally. Usually on a good day.

http://pic20.picturetrail.com/VOL1390/5705868/11310500/360546027.jpg

 

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Then, the weather turns.........and bits ya in the ass.



I don't know the crew over there. I sit on the Ptarmigan Peak memorial bench, occasionally. Usually on a good day.

http://pic20.picturetrail.com/VOL1390/5705868/11310500/360546027.jpg

I'd have to google, and since he was a dick to me professionally...meh.

That bench looks like the Albert Dow cache on Mt Washington.

...oh, hell, there's no winter pic of it online. Bleah.

 

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I'd have to google, and since he was a dick to me professionally...meh.

That bench looks like the Albert Dow cache on Mt Washington.

...oh, hell, there's no winter pic of it online. Bleah.

The crew over at the uni can be dicks......

 

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http://sphotos.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn1/547651_10150973124416060_127066331059_168270987_1097882767_n.jpg

 

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http://sphotos.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn1/547651_10150973124416060_127066331059_168270987_1097882767_n.jpg

So very cool. I remember when a youtube vid made the rounds, some nutball trail like that on the edge of a canyon or something. It might have been posted here, now that I think about it. Crazy.