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One of the things my friend remembers about summiting Everest was the extreme cold.
Out of curiosity, I checked the weather on the summit of K2 right now, It’s 8am Thursday there. The current temp is -32. No need to ask if that’s C or F.
wrote on 21 Oct 2022, 00:16 last edited byOne of the things my friend remembers about summiting Everest
I love it when you verb nouns.
(See "I aged out of it" thread)
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@Aqua-s-Sister said in Nope:
If there was something up there that I wanted....
That would involve spelunking gear, not mountain climbing…
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Jon, if you haven't already, you might enjoy reading about Shane McConkey. He's billed as a professional skiier and BASE jumper, but that doesn't begin to do him justice. He did amazing feats, including skiing down a mountainside stark naked.
I learned about him in Steve Kotler's book, The Art of Impossible, though mentions of McConkey are spread throughout so you'd have to read the whole book; not a hardship. There are YouTubes on him, and even a movie -- go here for a trailer: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2845780/.
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Jon, if you haven't already, you might enjoy reading about Shane McConkey. He's billed as a professional skiier and BASE jumper, but that doesn't begin to do him justice. He did amazing feats, including skiing down a mountainside stark naked.
I learned about him in Steve Kotler's book, The Art of Impossible, though mentions of McConkey are spread throughout so you'd have to read the whole book; not a hardship. There are YouTubes on him, and even a movie -- go here for a trailer: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2845780/.
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He was so preoccupied with whether he could ski naked, he never stopped to think whether he should.
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Jon, if you haven't already, you might enjoy reading about Shane McConkey. He's billed as a professional skiier and BASE jumper, but that doesn't begin to do him justice. He did amazing feats, including skiing down a mountainside stark naked.
I learned about him in Steve Kotler's book, The Art of Impossible, though mentions of McConkey are spread throughout so you'd have to read the whole book; not a hardship. There are YouTubes on him, and even a movie -- go here for a trailer: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2845780/.
wrote on 22 Oct 2022, 16:25 last edited byI learned about him in Steve Kotler's book, The Art of Impossible, though mentions of McConkey are spread throughout so you'd have to read the whole book; not a hardship.
Jon, very sorry -- I recommended the wrong book to you above. The one I had in mind is The Rise of Superman: Decoding the Science of Ultimate Human Performance. I regret this error; I hope you didn't spend a lot of time on the wrong book.
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I might try that if I was already up there for some other reason, but I wouldn’t go up there just to do that.
So maybe if your plane had crashed up there and you found that your headphones had landed on the other side of the chasm? That would be annoying. Then, you'd get there and you'd find they were somebody else's headphones after all.
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I might try that if I was already up there for some other reason, but I wouldn’t go up there just to do that.
So maybe if your plane had crashed up there and you found that your headphones had landed on the other side of the chasm? That would be annoying. Then, you'd get there and you'd find they were somebody else's headphones after all.
wrote on 17 Nov 2022, 18:56 last edited by@Doctor-Phibes said in Nope:
I might try that if I was already up there for some other reason, but I wouldn’t go up there just to do that.
So maybe if your plane had crashed up there and you found that your headphones had landed on the other side of the chasm? That would be annoying. Then, you'd get there and you'd find they were somebody else's headphones after all.
My rule of thumb is that, after a plane crash on a craggy peak, it's finder's keepers.
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wrote on 17 Nov 2022, 19:15 last edited by
No helmet, what an idiot
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What’s the point?
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wrote on 24 Feb 2023, 20:33 last edited by Catseye3
Holey Moley. Just sitting here and watching this in the safety of my house gave me serious heebies.
Coming out of those tunnels must have been terrifying . . . he was at first blinded.
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