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Thread: K2 first ski descent
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07-22-2018, 09:01 PM #1
K2 first ski descent
This is all I have right now
https://www.instagram.com/p/BlgO94tlXhJ/
Przed wyjściem do ataku szczytowego
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07-22-2018, 09:11 PM #2
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07-22-2018, 09:16 PM #3
word
other level respect if it hopefully went down,
conquistadors of the useful!
base camp looked plushLast edited by byates1; 07-22-2018 at 09:38 PM. Reason: ass raped by autocorrect.
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07-23-2018, 01:30 AM #4
Wow. That'd be a first D to put on the resume. Hope he sent it.
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07-23-2018, 01:40 AM #5"Its not the arrow, its the Indian" - M.Pinto
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07-23-2018, 01:45 AM #6
Dave Watson was the first to put skis on the slope in 2009 ... granted he was 300m from the summit when they had to turn around... but I guess that doesn't count anymore.
"Its not the arrow, its the Indian" - M.Pinto
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07-23-2018, 06:56 AM #7
The Poles are freaking bad-ass in the mountains, what a history for such a small country. Just finished reading "Art of Freedom" about Voytek Kurtyka, which completely blew my mind.
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07-23-2018, 07:05 AM #8sucks on the internet
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Mad props if this turns out to be true, radness thru the roof.
Hans Kammerlander did an attempt many years ago too but had to abort after descending on skis a few hundred meters from the summit due to excessively dangerous conditions.http://www.facebook.com/pages/www3li...ref=ts&fref=ts 3Limits Slovakia
http://www.ymli.cz/en/ski.html Rippin' Skis
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07-23-2018, 11:57 AM #9
white people......
dirtbag, not a dentist
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07-23-2018, 12:29 PM #10
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07-23-2018, 12:42 PM #11Registered User
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insane! I can't imagine climbing a mountain like that with such a huge set of balls
the route is described here: ( but looks like he started with the red above, then traversed skiers right to blue and then continued down the right fork)
http://www.alanarnette.com/blog/2018...2-ski-descent/
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07-23-2018, 12:47 PM #12
Some video
https://youtu.be/pWzTCkMs2EY
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07-23-2018, 12:59 PM #13
This is pretty incredible! Seems like it would be a really intense ski descent.
On another note, does it seem to anyone else that mountaineering achievements have fallen out of favor with the media in recent years? Other than the TGR instagram feed, I'm not seeing much coverage.
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07-23-2018, 01:08 PM #14
Doesn't count until someone takes it switch to the parking lot
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07-23-2018, 01:43 PM #15
interesting things on instagram under https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/k2skichallenge/ including this
https://www.instagram.com/p/BllbPevD...en-by=turi_ski
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07-23-2018, 02:25 PM #16
Nice.Well maybe I'm the faggot America
I'm not a part of a redneck agenda
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07-24-2018, 07:48 AM #17
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07-24-2018, 07:55 AM #18
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07-24-2018, 08:06 AM #19
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07-24-2018, 08:34 AM #20
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07-24-2018, 08:12 PM #21
jesus. wow.
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07-24-2018, 08:24 PM #22Registered User
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Woulda made better turns w RAX
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07-24-2018, 08:34 PM #23
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07-25-2018, 12:30 PM #24Registered User
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Pretty freaking intense! Hats way TF off!
CNN's article on this has a couple of trailers I haven't seen elsewhere (with some very cool drone footage): https://www.cnn.com/2018/07/23/sport...ntl/index.html. Looks like dude even found some good pow (as well as...other things).
I'm sure Red Balls will put together a full-length feature - it's what they do. They just had to release something the minute the news broke.
BTW, that cnn article also states: no supplemental oxygen used, and ski descent took 7 hours. Impressive as hell.
Yes, the Poles are superbadass in the mountains.
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07-25-2018, 02:42 PM #25
Cool accomplishment but dude could have charged harder. 6.2/10
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