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05-23-2019, 05:39 PM #626Registered User
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you’d think there would be special passing lanes for those oh-so-special climbers who are “raising awareness” - to help them fulfill their selfless world-enriching missions without being slowed down or endangered by the selfish schmucks doing it for mere personal glory and instagram likes. Especially if those hordes of glory-seekers have not purchased enough carbon offsets to enable them to state they’re ambassadors for Protect Our Winters without dying from the sheer hypocrisy of it all.
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05-23-2019, 06:33 PM #627
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05-23-2019, 07:00 PM #628
Thanks TFW, I am aware of that.
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05-23-2019, 07:47 PM #629Skiing powder worldwide
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05-23-2019, 08:13 PM #630
She made it according to alpenglow’s IG.
https://www.instagram.com/p/Bx09i3Zg...d=knobu6m18sx6
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05-23-2019, 08:26 PM #631
Rapid Ascent Team--RAT? Lol. That's awesome, I hope they make it down safely. I wonder if she tried to ski any of it.
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05-24-2019, 12:06 AM #632
I've never been to 8k meters, but it always bugged me why no one just set a rap line off a couple pickets or whatever and rapped off over the step to GTFO.
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05-24-2019, 01:05 AM #633Registered User
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Ha! That is a proud accomplishment on that timeline, especially with a blown ACL. All you haters can eat a dick, Caroline's a badass.
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05-24-2019, 05:26 AM #634Banned
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05-24-2019, 05:28 AM #635
Awesome that she made it!
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05-24-2019, 07:54 AM #636Registered User
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05-24-2019, 08:05 AM #637
What a cluster. This hasn't been cool since Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay did it.
This looks more like an amusement park ride to me. It's like if "Discovering America" became the cool thing to do after Columbus or DeLeon or the Vikings (whatever the fuck you believe happened) did it. Every year, thousands of boats crossing the Atlantic to "discover" America, just because it's there, and they can say they did it. Why do humans have to kill everything?
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05-24-2019, 08:16 AM #638
or I feel like once Messner did it without oxygen, a new standard had been set and that anything less should be given similar coverage to a high school basketball game, not the media circus/motivational speaking tour shit that it is today. I remember hearing somewhere that more people have summited Everest than run a 4 minute mile.
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05-24-2019, 08:34 AM #639
Are all those climbers doing it to raise awareness in the inequality of female vs male climbers getting sponsored to live an outdoor lifestyle and scold everyone else for not being green?
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05-24-2019, 09:00 AM #640Registered User
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Disturbing pic for sure. A friend of mine summited that same day, but his pic shows that traverse with only about 6 people on it. When he get back I'll have to ask him WTF is up with the lines though! Maybe he got there early enough.
Good for CG for summiting, and being smart/sponsored enough to try from the other side.
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05-24-2019, 09:12 AM #641
Everest went IKON? Didn't see that one coming.
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05-24-2019, 09:16 AM #642
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05-24-2019, 12:06 PM #644Registered User
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05-24-2019, 12:15 PM #645Registered User
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05-24-2019, 12:34 PM #646Registered User
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Caroline Gleich Harrassment Story
Maybe. Maybe not. Don't really care, but it's not hard to snap a pic that makes it look like no one else is around. Regardless, it's not like that hoard was more than a couple dozen yards away at most. If he claims otherwise, he's full of shit. But we already know that, because he is climbing Everest.
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05-24-2019, 12:40 PM #647Registered User
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05-24-2019, 12:43 PM #648
The down is the crux.
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05-24-2019, 12:47 PM #649
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05-24-2019, 01:16 PM #650Registered User
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Naw its still pretty cool to climb everest. And I can only imagine how difficult and challenging it must be.
by your logic, should we cease climbing mountains altogether except those that have yet to be summited by humans?
Congrats to Caroline and Rob! I wish them safe travels down and off the mountain, halfway home!
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