just read about a dude who died on everest, get this, *after* having lost *all ten fingers* over four *previous* attempts on everest. buddy. buddy stay off of there
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I’ve watched a ton of documentaries and dramatizations about various Everest expeditions and I DO NOT GET IT. Why people risk life and limb & suffer endlessly just to summit that nasty, trash-ridden peak for just a couple of minutes. I guess I don’t have whatever gene that makes one want to do that
oct 9, 2024, 8:46 pm • 1 0 • view
i remember reading about a guy who literally became a paraplegic after a mountain climbing incident and after it happened he decided to climb mount everest and all his friends were with him and had to help him. it’s sweet but also sir that mountain is littered with corpses what is wrong with u
oct 9, 2024, 4:22 am • 33 0 • view
sir get down from there! you know better than almost anyone how imperative it is that you get down from there
oct 9, 2024, 4:25 am • 29 0 • view
once years ago I met a trainhopper guy at a party, who was having a conversation on speakerphone with his gf who was talking about getting back on the rails I then came to learn she's been abstaining because she got sucked under a train and lost both legs at the thigh. STAY OF THE TRAINS IDIOT
oct 9, 2024, 7:31 pm • 3 0 • view
like I'm sorry, that's a traumatic and fucked up injury, just fucking hitchhike or something!!
oct 9, 2024, 7:32 pm • 2 0 • view
imagine explaining your decision to the EMT who found you the first time
oct 9, 2024, 7:34 pm • 1 0 • view
IMAGINE like, sorry I just love jumping on moving trains too much to stop even after losing major appendages and almost dying
oct 9, 2024, 7:36 pm • 0 0 • view
What an oogle
nov 25, 2024, 12:44 am • 1 0 • view
well he's not going back there now is he
oct 9, 2024, 8:10 am • 1 0 • view
He’s never leaving. The mountain is strewn with bodies.
oct 10, 2024, 4:01 am • 0 0 • view
not with that attitude
oct 18, 2024, 5:38 am • 2 0 • view
I wonder what that kind of drive (obsession?) feels like inside.
oct 9, 2024, 4:16 pm • 1 0 • view
that mountain whittled that man, there's no other way to put it. whittled him like a damn stick
oct 9, 2024, 4:20 am • 115 2 • view
also like i'm sorry to be ableist but idk if *not having any fingers* is going to *improve* your mountaineering
oct 9, 2024, 4:22 am • 76 0 • view
like maybe you're born without fingers and you spend your whole life learning to use specialty adaptive gear or work around needing them and you want to climb a mountain, okay, badass. but this guy was already bad at climbing this particular mountain *with* his
oct 9, 2024, 4:23 am • 70 0 • view
i guess he was a little lighter lol maybe that helps
oct 9, 2024, 4:24 am • 50 0 • view
also this article makes him sound like kind of a douche, he claimed on his youtube channel to not use supplemental oxygen but did secretly, which is not only unsportsmanlike, but it encourages others to attempt similar dangerous things. reckless behavior. seeya
oct 9, 2024, 4:30 am • 73 0 • view
also read about a dude who died on k2 and then 3 weeks later his girlfriend gave birth to their first child which means this man left an 8 months pregnant woman home alone and went off to climb a mountain where 1 out of 4 climbers dies. nasty business!
oct 9, 2024, 4:47 am • 91 1 • view
This reminds me of that who died in the worst way I can imagine face down in a tiny cavity like bro why did you go in there why
oct 9, 2024, 4:54 am • 8 0 • view
mountain climbing people are Built Different and it scares me. there's at least one woman whose husband fell to his death right in front of her and yet the next year she was back on the mountain. STOP
oct 9, 2024, 6:25 am • 6 0 • view
THE MOUNTAIN DOES NOT WANT YOU THERE
oct 9, 2024, 7:42 am • 4 0 • view
Like what, are you gonna show that very large rock? You gonna *show* it? IT'S A VERY LARGE ROCK IT'S GONNA OUTLAST YOU
oct 9, 2024, 7:43 am • 6 0 • view
Just go out for cigarettes like a normal father
oct 9, 2024, 6:11 am • 9 0 • view
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oct 9, 2024, 7:28 am • 7 0 • view
men, I swear. I think there’s only one that I currently like
oct 9, 2024, 4:53 am • 3 0 • view
Everest and K2 are getting along just fine without me bumbling around there, l'll leave them to it
oct 9, 2024, 4:57 am • 8 0 • view
v relatable imo
oct 9, 2024, 5:59 am • 2 0 • view
^this one, I like this one^
oct 9, 2024, 5:58 am • 4 0 • view
I hope he had one hell of a life insurance policy
oct 9, 2024, 6:02 am • 2 0 • view
K2 might count as a suicide...
oct 9, 2024, 7:50 am • 1 0 • view
he shouldn't have done that
oct 9, 2024, 4:48 am • 19 0 • view
that's what i'm starting to think too
oct 9, 2024, 4:48 am • 18 0 • view
didn't he like, call her on a satellite phone? or maybe that was someone else which -- it's pretty fucked that you have to narrow it down. like, which dead guy are we talking about here?
oct 9, 2024, 4:53 am • 6 0 • view
I think the phone guy was climbing Everest, his wife was only 7 months along! /s
oct 9, 2024, 5:13 am • 7 0 • view
great job, everyone
oct 9, 2024, 6:09 am • 3 0 • view
That's just suicide
oct 9, 2024, 11:30 am • 2 0 • view
enjoying the progression here. also this guys kid might be better off without him “hello little $&:;@, i have bought twitter for you”
oct 9, 2024, 5:07 am • 3 0 • view
I cannot be more clear on this point: do not climb K2 it hates you and it wants to kill you
oct 9, 2024, 4:48 am • 29 1 • view
I feel like we should just stop trying to climb things that are like The Highest and The Deadliest. just like. This Mountain Is Pretty Tall
oct 9, 2024, 6:25 am • 8 0 • view
I used to go to a climbing gym, that was pretty fun Never really worried THAT hard that I might die from it, which was nice
oct 9, 2024, 7:41 am • 7 0 • view
Summitting Mt. Neato
oct 10, 2024, 1:48 pm • 2 0 • view
K, I lol'd at that one You got me
oct 9, 2024, 7:39 am • 0 0 • view
When my dad lost much of his control in one arm and couldn't drum anymore, a lot of people brought up the def leopard drummer. And he was like, yeah, except he had that accident at 22 not 55 and was a straight up BA
oct 9, 2024, 4:30 am • 10 0 • view
More like Rick Allen already drummed like he had one arm when he still had two.
oct 9, 2024, 4:53 am • 3 0 • view
youtu.be/Pzd7MBK0yBo
nov 20, 2024, 1:10 am • 0 0 • view
oct 9, 2024, 4:49 am • 6 0 • view
His spirit was indomitable but those bits got domitted for real
oct 9, 2024, 4:22 am • 11 0 • view
the sherpas drawing straws for who has to haul him up the mountain
oct 9, 2024, 4:49 am • 4 0 • view
My favorite is Suzanne Leopoldina Jesus, 59, who died last year in an attempt to be the first Asian woman with a pacemaker to climb Everest. I learned that part of the process is, in the days leading up to the summit, climbers will do acclamation climbs, usually taking 15-20 minutes to climb 250m.
oct 9, 2024, 4:45 am • 10 0 • view
She tried 3 times on consecutive days, where it took her 5, 6, and 12 hours. Her Sherpas told her she would die if she attempted the climb, but she refused to quit because she'd already paid the summit fee. She died about 500m above base camp, 3000m short of the peak.
oct 9, 2024, 4:49 am • 14 0 • view
damn dude that is not a very successful attempt! that sounds like a big waste of everyone's time and energy and a lot of resources too! oh well i guess
oct 9, 2024, 4:50 am • 13 0 • view
at least he died doing what he loved: leaving body parts on a frozen mountain
oct 9, 2024, 5:06 am • 13 0 • view
Climbing the mountain as a Fuck You for not killing me yet Like that had to be the attitude, right?
oct 9, 2024, 4:23 am • 9 0 • view
But if you die on Everest the other climbers give you a cool nickname like “pink boots” as they pass your corpse. That’s gotta count for something.
oct 9, 2024, 4:48 am • 21 0 • view
What if you die in an unflattering position and they call you Face Down Ass Up :/
oct 9, 2024, 6:48 am • 8 0 • view
Don't know about you but that would definitely be a flattering position for me 🍑
oct 9, 2024, 7:48 am • 3 0 • view
"Yeah I made it about 100m past T H I C C Boots before the weather took a turn"
oct 10, 2024, 5:21 pm • 4 0 • view
He just couldn't quit Broke Everything Mountain.
oct 9, 2024, 8:26 pm • 1 0 • view
I cannot be the same species as these people who do these things
oct 9, 2024, 4:50 am • 10 0 • view
maybe he was going back to get them
oct 9, 2024, 5:38 am • 5 0 • view
Nog to mention Everest is littered with the dead, to the point where they're used as landmarks in some cases. This man kept losing fingers while surrounded by corpses and still thought it was a good idea to go back a fifth time.
oct 9, 2024, 11:14 am • 1 0 • view
I've seen Everest with my own eyes. Those mountains are so mind-bogglingly big and dangerous that I think they shouldn't be climbed.
oct 9, 2024, 12:59 pm • 1 0 • view
I mean it's a little late to tell him that don't you think
oct 9, 2024, 6:14 am • 1 0 • view
I can unfortunately understand the mindset. You fail once, ok try again. you fail a second time and lose a bunch of fingers? You gotta prove it to yourself that you can overcome it. Otherwise it's gonna haunt you forever.
oct 9, 2024, 4:25 am • 6 0 • view
If a force of nature said NO that emphatically, I would listen.
oct 9, 2024, 4:34 am • 17 0 • view
After watching Meru (2015) and seeing these world class climbers quit less than 100' from the top due to safety reasons, I have no respect for people who don't know when to give up.
oct 9, 2024, 1:19 pm • 4 0 • view
mountaineering is a disease
oct 9, 2024, 4:20 am • 41 1 • view
Abstinence only mountain safety education. just don’t get onto that thing
oct 9, 2024, 4:47 am • 13 0 • view
stay down here! it's NICE down here, all our stuff is down here, like our food and water and air and central heating and whatnot. what's up there. nothing but trouble
oct 9, 2024, 4:48 am • 11 0 • view
They’re sublime spaces whose beauty comes from their hostility! Respect it from afar, don’t wander up there and get swallowed by the infinite like a dingus
oct 9, 2024, 4:53 am • 5 0 • view
There's fossil ocean critters up there and all that's kind of cool
oct 9, 2024, 4:55 am • 2 0 • view
Interesting!
oct 9, 2024, 1:04 pm • 0 0 • view
i'll never understand what would make anyone even remotely interested when there's so many other safe and pleasant hobbies. i like to do things like grow interesting varieties of potato, for instance. you hardly ever hear about someone dying from that
oct 9, 2024, 4:21 am • 47 0 • view
I wanted to get into it, I took a class with a local club, I could rappel after rock climbing because it made sense but had a complete panic attack trying to rappel off a cliff because I was on a perfectly good cliff why would I ever lower myself off it backwards!!!!!?? NO!!!
oct 9, 2024, 4:28 am • 1 0 • view
I Failed at Adventure. It was humbling.
oct 9, 2024, 4:28 am • 3 0 • view
I think this is what happens to cats when they try to get down from trees. there's just some instinct that is like NOPE
oct 9, 2024, 6:28 am • 1 0 • view
More of a herbs kinda guy but potatoes are also nice.
oct 9, 2024, 5:56 am • 2 0 • view
never doubt the power of Potato
oct 9, 2024, 4:22 am • 12 0 • view
do not malign Potato! without Potato where would you be??
oct 9, 2024, 6:26 am • 3 0 • view
The alpinist mind isn’t far off from the ultra marathoners and the base jumpers. I say it as someone who kinda gets it: some of us are wired in ways where we only really feel “on it” when stuff gets miserable or insane. I’d love to get the thrill/joy that many get from gardening, for instance.
oct 9, 2024, 4:26 am • 6 0 • view
i think it's not so much that gardening thrills me, it's that i don't feel the need to be thrilled! in fact i really prefer to not be thrilled if i can help it. my favorite hobbies are just "things that pass the time, or give me something to chat about with others"
oct 9, 2024, 4:28 am • 10 0 • view
As a bit of a chatterbox, I think there’s definitely less verbal people in some of those spaces, or folks who aren’t interested in discussing the experience, I always wonder if certain folks have to explore themselves in ways beyond articulation.
oct 9, 2024, 4:30 am • 2 0 • view
they should try disaster relief
oct 9, 2024, 4:34 am • 8 0 • view
I think about this with so many things like skydiving and free diving. Like, what you're doing *will kill you* unless everything goes 100% correct. There's no rush that's worth taunting death like that. Just do cocaine. Or, maybe enjoy having many more years to live instead of inviting disaster
oct 10, 2024, 5:02 pm • 1 0 • view
fun fact, once I went speed dating and like three of the guys were like "I climbed Everest/some mountain" and when I asked what it was like they'd just say "it was cold/windy/awesome." like how are you so boring about this
oct 9, 2024, 5:05 am • 6 0 • view
"was it full of dead people? did you contemplate why you felt the need to climb a mountain littered with bodies and body parts?"
oct 9, 2024, 6:28 am • 4 0 • view
This is what I don't get! Your path is littered with the bodies of people who came before, why is this not a cautionary tale instead of some funny anecdote?! "Oh yeah, their eyes froze open, they couldn't move and had to watch everyone go by as they slowly died lmao" WTF is wrong with these people?
oct 10, 2024, 5:10 pm • 3 0 • view
I am endlessly fascinated by mountaineering disasters but you will never catch me actually climbing one
oct 9, 2024, 4:23 am • 18 0 • view
there are plenty of mountains that consist of a nice walk up a long path and back down again. maybe nobody told these guys about them?
oct 9, 2024, 4:42 am • 8 0 • view
you can take a bus up to timberline lodge, don't even have to change out of your PJs
oct 9, 2024, 4:43 am • 4 0 • view
i don't even particularly care to look at a mountain. too big. can't see any details really and there's not much but snow. keep it
oct 9, 2024, 4:26 am • 9 0 • view
Come on. Everest is the disease. Most of the people who die up there are not mountaineers at all. They are just rich tourists(millionaires, not billionaires). Ok fine, as my picture would suggest I am not an unbiased on this.
oct 9, 2024, 2:59 pm • 0 0 • view
It sounds like the sunk cost fallacy took him out.
oct 9, 2024, 6:44 am • 2 0 • view
Badfingers after goodfingers
oct 10, 2024, 1:50 pm • 2 0 • view
Real winners quit!
oct 9, 2024, 5:57 am • 6 0 • view
The masculine urge to be permanent litter on the biggest mountain
oct 9, 2024, 4:39 am • 23 0 • view