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« Reply #53565 on: May 24, 2019, 12:21:17 PM »

This is a most extraordinary image. 

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This is the queue to summit Mount Everest.

More than 200 people are thought to have reached the summit on Wednesday.  Three of them died, possibly as a result of the queue in the death zone.


Wow, that is a captivating picture, for sure.

Imagine being stuck up there, and knowing you're done.

Imagine climbing past the remains of previous mountaineers like hannalore Schmatz who sat down at 8300 m in 1979 and died there n then and whose remains sat there for years after leaning on her rucksack tied on by a Sherpa who after her death sat with her ,losing his fingers n toes to frostbite after descending!
eyes open hair blowing in the breeze
A skeletal smile on her face as you negotiate your way past her !
2 more died trying to remove her remains some years later
Many bodies fall into the khumbu ice fall to be churned out many years later
It’s a pretty grisly hobby is high altitude mountaineering

Imagine climbing Everest like Reinhold messier and peter habeler did alpine style very fast  so fast in fact no one believed them so messner  returned and climbed it again .peter habeler said fk that
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« Reply #53566 on: May 24, 2019, 12:38:29 PM »

1% please tony if you would be so kind
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« Reply #53567 on: May 24, 2019, 12:44:30 PM »

2% please. My insurance for when you get the lot and leave.
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« Reply #53568 on: May 24, 2019, 12:47:41 PM »

1% please Mr T.
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« Reply #53569 on: May 24, 2019, 01:36:18 PM »

This is a most extraordinary image. 

 Click to see full-size image.


This is the queue to summit Mount Everest.

More than 200 people are thought to have reached the summit on Wednesday.  Three of them died, possibly as a result of the queue in the death zone.


Wow, that is a captivating picture, for sure.

Imagine being stuck up there, and knowing you're done.

Imagine climbing past the remains of previous mountaineers like hannalore Schmatz who sat down at 8300 m in 1979 and died there n then and whose remains sat there for years after leaning on her rucksack tied on by a Sherpa who after her death sat with her ,losing his fingers n toes to frostbite after descending!
eyes open hair blowing in the breeze
A skeletal smile on her face as you negotiate your way past her !
2 more died trying to remove her remains some years later
Many bodies fall into the khumbu ice fall to be churned out many years later
It’s a pretty grisly hobby is high altitude mountaineering

Imagine climbing Everest like Reinhold messier and peter habeler did alpine style very fast  so fast in fact no one believed them so messner  returned and climbed it again .peter habeler said fk that

Another 3 have died there in the last 24 hours.  Must be a dreadfu;l decision to make.  You have climed to within 400m of the summit and face a 10 hour queue.  Your head says you should turn round, as you have effectively made it, but why were you there in the first place?

There are some vidoes of everest climbs on youtube and the like and it just looks brutal.   Even with someone carting your stuff up there for you, it must take extreme bravery and inner strength to get there.

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« Reply #53570 on: May 24, 2019, 02:01:44 PM »

Will have my usual 1% please Tony.
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« Reply #53571 on: May 24, 2019, 02:04:38 PM »

What bollocks is this?

So I log into this barren diary all the while and there's no staking thread. Offers me a little daily fist-pump of win. Like winning money and little personal SCOOPIO every day.

Such a sigh to end the streak

5% pls
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« Reply #53572 on: May 24, 2019, 02:19:43 PM »

What bollocks is this?

So I log into this barren diary all the while and there's no staking thread. Offers me a little daily fist-pump of win. Like winning money and little personal SCOOPIO every day.

Such a sigh to end the streak

5% pls

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« Reply #53573 on: May 24, 2019, 02:20:34 PM »

This is a most extraordinary image. 

 Click to see full-size image.


This is the queue to summit Mount Everest.

More than 200 people are thought to have reached the summit on Wednesday.  Three of them died, possibly as a result of the queue in the death zone.


Wow, that is a captivating picture, for sure.

Imagine being stuck up there, and knowing you're done.

Imagine climbing past the remains of previous mountaineers like hannalore Schmatz who sat down at 8300 m in 1979 and died there n then and whose remains sat there for years after leaning on her rucksack tied on by a Sherpa who after her death sat with her ,losing his fingers n toes to frostbite after descending!
eyes open hair blowing in the breeze
A skeletal smile on her face as you negotiate your way past her !
2 more died trying to remove her remains some years later
Many bodies fall into the khumbu ice fall to be churned out many years later
It’s a pretty grisly hobby is high altitude mountaineering

Imagine climbing Everest like Reinhold messier and peter habeler did alpine style very fast  so fast in fact no one believed them so messner  returned and climbed it again .peter habeler said fk that

I can barely climb out of my pit, so not even on my mind.

Crazy what some people can train themselves to do.
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« Reply #53574 on: May 24, 2019, 03:54:28 PM »

I could understand doing it if no one else had ever done it, but to spend a fortune and put myself at a very real risk of dying just to stand in a queue with hundreds of others waiting to claim this 'unique' prize? No thanks.
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« Reply #53575 on: May 24, 2019, 05:44:31 PM »

I like round numbers, so it’s £250 for me please Tony
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« Reply #53576 on: May 24, 2019, 09:28:10 PM »

Will have my usual 1% please Tony.

Me too please.
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« Reply #53577 on: May 24, 2019, 11:33:16 PM »

This is a most extraordinary image. 

 Click to see full-size image.


This is the queue to summit Mount Everest.

More than 200 people are thought to have reached the summit on Wednesday.  Three of them died, possibly as a result of the queue in the death zone.


Wow, that is a captivating picture, for sure.

Imagine being stuck up there, and knowing you're done.

Imagine climbing past the remains of previous mountaineers like hannalore Schmatz who sat down at 8300 m in 1979 and died there n then and whose remains sat there for years after leaning on her rucksack tied on by a Sherpa who after her death sat with her ,losing his fingers n toes to frostbite after descending!
eyes open hair blowing in the breeze
A skeletal smile on her face as you negotiate your way past her !
2 more died trying to remove her remains some years later
Many bodies fall into the khumbu ice fall to be churned out many years later
It’s a pretty grisly hobby is high altitude mountaineering

Imagine climbing Everest like Reinhold messier and peter habeler did alpine style very fast  so fast in fact no one believed them so messner  returned and climbed it again .peter habeler said fk that

Another 3 have died there in the last 24 hours.  Must be a dreadfu;l decision to make.  You have climed to within 400m of the summit and face a 10 hour queue.  Your head says you should turn round, as you have effectively made it, but why were you there in the first place?

There are some vidoes of everest climbs on youtube and the like and it just looks brutal.   Even with someone carting your stuff up there for you, it must take extreme bravery and inner strength to get there.




above 7000 m  you are living in the death zone as mountaineers call it one uk climber lived above this height for 21 days once ,but most can only manage 3 or 4
a lack of water extreme exertion and very thin air combine to make your decision making not its normal self
you have expended all of your energy to get that high on the mountain the summit is your personal target - do u really want to go home and say you failed ?to your family /your backers ?
all sense of reason goes out of the window your bloods turning to treacle and thickening in your veins causing pulmonary and cerebal  oedema -thats lung n brain problems -strokes blood clots etc
but still you are so near so you kick on ,your only focus is the summit
lots summit and having expended all their energy make mistakes on descending or get caught in bad weather n bivouac out just below the summit -julie tullis was one such uk climber died in her tent on k2
or like hal wickwire leader of a summit on k2 -think 10x harder to climb  than everest !
he bivvied out just below the summit and lost all or part of one of his lungs
it really is a cruel sport
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« Reply #53578 on: May 25, 2019, 12:26:06 AM »

Time to spin up the Netherlands gains.

5% please.
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« Reply #53579 on: May 25, 2019, 12:36:46 AM »

£100 sent.

Get me some Macchiato monies, please.
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