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Vegan climbs Mount Everest to prove they aren't weak..

m_asim said:
The same can be said for riding bikes.

As long as they are not hurting anyone, we can't judge anyone for doing what brings them joy. Even weird people like Ducati owners.
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No, no we can judge Ducati owners. :laughing
 
UDRider said:
No, no we can judge Ducati owners. :laughing
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You are right.

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afm199 said:
Everest used to be an accomplishment that was truly extraordinary. It's more of a business now. You still need to be in shape, but basically for $50k, you hire a company with guides whose job it is to literally have Sherpas tow you to the top.
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For a long time now, Sherpas have fixed ropes to the summit at the beginning of the climbing season. Subsequent parties use these ropes and can therefore minimize the amount of gear they must carry. We could be generous and call this approach a team sport, where the Sherpas are at the sharp end of the rope.

in 1978, Reinhold Messner and Peter Habeler became the first men known to have climbed Everest without oxygen. Two years later Messner soloed the mountain via a previously unclimbed route. Nobody fixed ropes for him. He was playing an entirely different game than most people who go there.

After the 1996 Everest disaster, Jon Krakauer criticized Anatoli Boukreev, one of the guides for a competing expedition, for having climbed without oxygen and for descending ahead of his clients. Boukreev later wrote his own account of the climb, in which he clarified the decision to climb without oxygen. Russian climbers generally favor an intense acclimatization process that allows them to function without supplementary oxygen, feeling that they are less reliant on a system that can fail. Prior to summit day, Bourkreev descended to treeline and then climbed the whole mountain again as part of this process.

He turned out to be the one person who could still function when everything went sideways and climbers were stranded on the mountain. All of his clients survived and he personally rescued three of them. The guide in Krakauer's party elected to stay near the summit with one of his climbers and died in the storm, along with several members of his party.
 
tzrider said:
For a long time now, Sherpas have fixed ropes to the summit at the beginning of the climbing season. Subsequent parties use these ropes and can therefore minimize the amount of gear they must carry. We could be generous and call this approach a team sport, where the Sherpas are at the sharp end of the rope.

in 1978, Reinhold Messner and Peter Habeler became the first men known to have climbed Everest without oxygen. Two years later Messner soloed the mountain via a previously unclimbed route. Nobody fixed ropes for him. He was playing an entirely different game than most people who go there.

After the 1996 Everest disaster, Jon Krakauer criticized Anatoli Boukreev, one of the guides for a competing expedition, for having climbed without oxygen and for descending ahead of his clients. Boukreev later wrote his own account of the climb, in which he clarified the decision to climb without oxygen. Russian climbers generally favor an intense acclimatization process that allows them to function without supplementary oxygen, feeling that they are less reliant on a system that can fail. Prior to summit day, Bourkreev descended to treeline and then climbed the whole mountain again as part of this process.

He turned out to be the one person who could still function when everything went sideways and climbers were stranded on the mountain. All of his clients survived and he personally rescued three of them. The guide in Krakauer's party elected to stay near the summit with one of his climbers and died in the storm, along with several members of his party.
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That is frickin' amazing.

How do they acclimatize themselves to such a height?
 
There's a lot of luck with surviving Everest besides just skill. Get stuck behind a traffic jam of amateurs and you're screwed. The summit making window is small and left too late with bad weather approaching is deadly no matter the skill level.

What responsibility should a guide have to get rookies off the mountain when it starts coming apart. Hard enough to get yourself down, should you risk certain death to drag an almost corpse. If you're going up you know the risk, you should accept that you may not return and not expect others to give up their shot and possible life if you're not up to it.


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RIP Vegan Climbers





Abacinator said:
People should stop climbing that fucking mountain. It's trashed with corpses, discarded oxygen tanks, and other garbage.
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I agree.
 
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