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LuckyNeck
Trad climber
the basement of Lou's Tavern
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May 13, 2012 - 10:54pm PT
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Ya gotta die somewhere.
Ain't it the truth...
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Studly
Trad climber
WA
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May 13, 2012 - 10:55pm PT
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There are a number of people frozen in the ice on Mt. Hood and Rainier.
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Jan
Mountain climber
Okinawa, Japan
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May 14, 2012 - 12:24am PT
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The Sherpas believe that the bodies desecrate the mountain, especially lying out in the
open like that. Some have suggested that when they get most of the trash off the
mountain which various eco-expeditions work on every year, then the next stage will be
to bring the bodies down.
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Captain...or Skully
climber
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May 14, 2012 - 12:31am PT
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Well, it's Their Mountains. It's all good.
I do, however, reserve the right to leave my hulking remains on whichever of my mountains as I desire. Or can still reach. Whichever(again?)Pick one from either category.
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Chaz
Trad climber
greater Boss Angeles area
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May 14, 2012 - 12:39am PT
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When the time comes, I've always thought the best thing to do with me is to simply leave me where I died.
Damn few places on this planet where that is possible.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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May 14, 2012 - 01:06am PT
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So am I gonna roast for bootying? Who knew re-cycling would get to be the rage?
I figured 'stuff' didn't have karma. At least I never fought another for a
dude's boots like those crazy Brits.
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Sheik aka JD
Trad climber
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May 14, 2012 - 01:18am PT
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Right now I have a decomposing deer carcass at the bottom of my steep, overgrown backyard. Two days ago we wondered why turkey vultures were circling. Yesterday morning we had a toddler birthday with 20+ little ones running around the front yard; toward evening there was a faint smell in the neighborhood; I joked about taking the 5+ year olds on an excursion to find the critter. Now the whole neighborhood reeks of a weird garbage smell. My back neighbor just knocked on my door, saying there was a decomposing deer...why did the friggin deer have to crawl to my side of the property line...
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
merced, california
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May 14, 2012 - 03:34am PT
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He did that without using Toad gas. Solo.
That tooth might work like the Kandy korn bashie if you wired it up.
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ß Î Ø T Ç H
Boulder climber
bouldering
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May 14, 2012 - 03:40am PT
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The photos aren't necessary. Give a little respect to the dead.
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Norwegian
Trad climber
Placerville, California
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May 14, 2012 - 09:00am PT
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did you ever read about the princess
who was climbing glass mountain
with beta and chicken bones
supplied her by mountain sages
that she met en route to her peak?
she got to within one step of the
summit (and her prince) and ran out
of chicken bones that she was using
to build her etrier.
instead of retreating she
broke off the last digit of her
finger and thus completed her ladder
and summitted.
it just so happened that
the prince was beneath enchantment
and in order to break the spell,
a princess had to use part of her
own body to reach him.
funkin eh we're all under
the spell of life
and some people give all their
bones and spirt too
the achieve brief freedoms.
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justthemaid
climber
Jim Henson's Basement
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May 14, 2012 - 09:27am PT
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Nobody ever thinks about their high altitude Zombie plan.
No kidding!
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steve shea
climber
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May 14, 2012 - 09:29am PT
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In April 1980 three of us were in AK for the Cassin. On descent from the summit we passed a German husband and wife frozen in place only hours before at the lunch rocks just above Denali Pass. We continued down the pass in a total whiteout and only made it in the waning light because we could just barely see from wand to wand. We got to the iglooplex at 17K' and could not find our preplaced camp. After wandering around for what seemed like hours we finally came across a huge snow cave that was home and the death house to five Koreans who perished. In the cave was frozen puke and blood and feces along with a huge supply of food and fuel. At the time it was the highest heli operation ever on Denali. The rangers had just winched them off that day. They all died in the snowcave. Finding that cave saved our lives, though it was a grim reminder of the thin margin one has in Alaskan storms at altitude. On the north side of Everest in 1986 a few of us spent three days with the frozen body of a sherpa killed in a serac avalanche descending from the North Col. We wanted to give him a proper Bhuddist burial and had to wait for the yaks to bring enough wood for the funeral pyre. The Lamas propped him in a sitting position in a tent as though he was still alive and went about their routines as usual.
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bob
climber
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May 14, 2012 - 09:35am PT
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Seems like a good zombie flick could be made with corpses rising from the mountains and taking out climbers.................
Just a thought.
Bob j.
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Stewart Johnson
climber
lake forest
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May 14, 2012 - 09:36am PT
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''in the eighteenth century the snowy and inaccessible peaks of the alps
were believed to be home to dragons and other fantastical monsters.
this attitude changed during the enlightment period when scientific
gentlemen and natural philosophers dragged their barometers
and theodolites, roast fowl,and gallons of good wine and reluctant servants onto the vigin heights.
however it was the arrival of the early british explorers which
turned mountaineeering into an obsession, an art form and a competitive
sport. the dragons were gradually slain one by one''
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steve shea
climber
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May 14, 2012 - 10:13am PT
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Bruce you are right about the Koreans. They booted it straight from Kahiltna base to the Iglooplex at 17. All snuffed by alitude maladies of one sort or another.
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Banquo
climber
Amerricka
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May 14, 2012 - 10:18am PT
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I believe that first photo is Peter Boardman (or perhaps Joe Tasker). It always bothers me to see it. I recall following their exploits and reading their books.
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MikeL
climber
SANTA CLARA, CA
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May 14, 2012 - 10:20am PT
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". . . it was the arrival of the early british explorers which
turned mountaineeering into an obsession, an art form and a competitive
sport. the dragons were gradually slain one by one"
That's a great quote, Stewart.
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steve shea
climber
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May 14, 2012 - 10:22am PT
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Banquo, Boardman and Tasker are still on the East Ridge high above the Kangshung Face.
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justthemaid
climber
Jim Henson's Basement
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May 14, 2012 - 10:26am PT
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Seriously.. Respect to those who die in pursuit of dreams.
Not a high altitude story, but a few years back my parents came across a bleached skeleton out in a remote desert canyon near my father's house in Baja. He was way the hell out in the middle of nowhere. Impossible to know his story, but his wallet had American dollars. His ID had disintegrated to dust so there was no clue to his identity. How he got there is a mystery. If he was a tourist it's odd no one reported him missing. Lonely death out there. RIP dude.
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OK- Now back to the zombies. I think this can double duty as a global warming/folly of mankind e-ffing up the planet type of deal, as greenhouse gasses heat things up enough to thaw the corpses.
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donini
Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
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May 14, 2012 - 10:29am PT
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Quite an educational thread....I had no idea alpine climbing was so dangerous.
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