Just gonna leave this right here...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6ran_Kropp
On 5/22/2016 9:24 PM, That One Guy /sarcasm wrote:
the trash at everest is disgustong, those oxugen bottled being a huge
part of it. F these people who arent good stewards of such places.
I like it when vegans meet their demise. Not because I am against the
idea of shoosing what you eat but because 90 persent of them are
douche canoes who wont shut up. Well, except this guy, he shut up.
On Sun, May 22, 2016 at 9:04 PM, Chuck McCown <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
I have avoided it as well as the movie because of the outcome.
Perhaps someday I will screw up my courage and read the book or
watch the movie.
I did enjoy the book about the kid that went on walk-about in
Alaska and lived in a bus only to be done in by some berries he ate.
*From:* Bill Prince <mailto:[email protected]>
*Sent:* Sunday, May 22, 2016 7:55 PM
*To:* [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
*Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] OT Irony
You should read Jon Krakauer's "/Into Thin Air/". It's a first
hand account of a climb up Everest back in 1996. It goes into some
of those details about oxygen starvation, and the cold. There are
parts that he doesn't remember and/or has a partial memory of.
Quite a good read.
http://www.amazon.com/Into-Thin-Air-Personal-Disaster/dp/0385494785
bp
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On 5/22/2016 6:36 PM, Chuck McCown wrote:
One of the Everest climbers that died from altitude sickness this
week was a vegan on a mission to prove the vegans are as strong
and robust as everyone else. Was attempting to prove the point
by climbing mountains.
I wonder if they are on oxygen all the way up and back down
(above 15,000 feet or so)? That is a lot of oxygen.
I know that if you neglect to put on your oxygen in a small
plane, you go to sleep about 18,000. Happened to my wife once.
I was too busy flying and complying to tell her I had left 13,000
for 23,000. She didn’t respond to gentle prodding or voice, so I
put a cannula on her and she was fine a minute later.
Everest is >29,000 feet. Hard to believe it can be done, even
with oxygen.
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If you only see yourself as part of the team but you don't see your
team as part of yourself you have already failed as part of the team.
