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

danate said:
That and all I got out of this was that I don't want to climb Everest.
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Me neither, absolutely zero desire. I worked with a guy that did it, and the horror stories he told had me unsold on the idea 20 years ago.
 
tzrider said:
If you did the climb, even with someone handing you an oxygen bottle once in a while, I'm betting you'd feel you'd accomplished the hardest thing you've ever done.

Some of these clients aren't world-class alpinists, but they're not sipping Mai Thai's on the beach, either.
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It's a hard feat, a very hard one, and altitude sickness kills people quickly. People do get literally towed up, but it's still quite a feat. :thumbup
 
I like day trips. That two month commitment of living in a tent breathing yak dung smoke I bet isn't as much fun as is seems. Sign me up when they install a cable car.
 
Hopefully not a thread jack, but there are worse things than jacking a thread that makes fun of someone who died while attempting a rare and dangerous physical feat because they were publicizing or promoting their diet.

But what is everyone's favorite vegan restaurant? Mine is Millennium, fairly upscale but totally worth it in my opinion.
 
They seem to leave those same ladders there in place for several seasons.
Looks like there's plenty of ropes and anchors but whats the retrieval plan if someone falls? Fall prevention is usually always a big part of the planning but retrieval is something that's often overlooked.
It bet its really hard when wearing winter gloves to pull up a 220 lb weight at the end of a 1/2" rope and 20' down a crevasse.
 
cfives said:
Hopefully not a thread jack, but there are worse things than jacking a thread that makes fun of someone who died while attempting a rare and dangerous physical feat because they were publicizing or promoting their diet.

But what is everyone's favorite vegan restaurant? Mine is Millennium, fairly upscale but totally worth it in my opinion.
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I've enjoyed some vegan food, but I'd never go out of my way for it.
 
Blankpage said:
It bet its really hard when wearing winter gloves to pull up a 220 lb weight at the end of a 1/2" rope and 20' down a crevasse.
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It's quite hard, even at more normal altitudes. I practiced crevasse rescue systems with a climbing guide for an afternoon years ago. We were rigging a 6:1 z-pulley setup so that one person could extract another. It took that kind of leverage to raise a climber. We took turns hauling each other.

I was 50 feet over the side of a frozen waterfall and he started hauling. I'd move an inch or two at a time. He asked of I could make myself heavier, perhaps thinking I was taking some weight on my feet. I wasn't, so I reached down and planted one of my ice axes like I was going to try to climb downhill. He kept hauling and probably would have dislocated my arm if I'd kept trying to hang on.

While an extraction can be done, the setup is complicated and it's very questionable whether many people would have enough brain function on the upper slopes of Everest to put it together. You don't hear of a lot of rescues on that mountain, for good reason. Generally, if you can't move under your own power, you're going to join the body count.
 
alright i just ate 3 lamb chops (the little tbone style), steamed brussel sprouts plus carrots, then some baby bella mushroom sauteed in butter. plus a bottle of rombauer cab. fuck yea.
 
explorin said:
alright i just ate 3 lamb chops (the little tbone style), steamed brussel sprouts plus carrots, then some baby bella mushroom sauteed in butter. plus a bottle of rombauer cab. fuck yea.
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Now somebody is getting to the beef! Uhh, lamb. Brussel sprouts. Getting your Vagy I see.
 
danate said:
Trying to be optimist! I also just learned to cope with the fact that I won't be an astronaut, motogp rider or the President.
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Man has to know his limitations. :p

Feats I will never achieve, far outnumber the feats I have accomplished. :laughing
 
Idioteque said:
It's kinda funny that in my experience, it's mostly meat eaters that are the ones talking about what others do or don't eat
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I call bullshit on this. Every time there is a conversation on meat vs. plants, vegans are the militant and most abusive there. "You killer, you don't care about feelings, you don't care about our planet! Blah, blah, blah."
How do you know when someone a vegan or a crossfitter? They'll let you know in the first five minutes.
 
Lunch Box said:
Dan, you (and most vegetarians) are perfectly fine. Vegans (much like crossfitters) seem to feel the need to tell everyone that they are vegans and make it a point to call meat eaters evil. I don't care what anyone else chooses to eat, but I am not a fan of having them preach to me about what I should eat. Pretty much my same stance on religion, or virtually anything else.
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Just how much vegetarians and vegans do you know? Pretty broad brush and all...
 
jdhu said:
Just how much vegetarians and vegans do you know? Pretty broad brush and all...
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I assume that you mean, "how many." I honestly didn't mean to make my statement so absolute. I meant to point out the tendencies of vegans to push their agenda more than most groups with other dietary guidelines. I actually know quite a few vegans and a lot of vegetarians. The vegetarians I know tend to be a lot less concerned with what everyone else eats than the vegans. I have never once had a vegetarian try to "convert" me, whereas I have had numerous vegans attempt to shame me for eating meat/dairy/etc.

Again, my statement was poorly worded and the intent was to communicate tendencies, rather than absolutes. Apologies for that. I still stand by the message, though.
 
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