Pretty sure it’s a brand name at this point. I can’t imagine anyone listens to him for his music.

They basically just use it as a fashion accessory to make other guys think they’re masculine

Not only bragging about taking them, but he’s saying they’re hard. They shouldn’t be…

It’s good to get a medical expert to explain. I’m not sure I fully understand, however, I have noticed in the past 5-10 years, all the sites have slowly been moving away from the above graph (I can’t even find the other 2 sites that used to have it).

So, the evidence seems to suggest you’re right. but, wouldn’t surprise me if its bad writing. I generally use the info off Alan Arnette’s site instead. i just used this site because it had the table I was looking for, since I couldn’t find it elsewhere. But, seems like a personal blog, and the picture probably came off facebook lol

I was using Trump math for my percentage calculation.

It’s a bigly number

Remember, he needs a civil war to try to extend his term and avoid prison

That’s not why

You needed to earn the privilege to answer questions or ask them (I think).

It just became too difficult to get help there or help people.

I reckon that was just a brain fart

Happens to everyone… The difference is that 50% of what trump says is fart

Yeah… In terms of a percentage of normal o2 percentage I think… I’m not a medical expert (so, i only know the basics)

https://mtnath.com/altitude/ shows both ways though (and the way I used).

So, I was actually wrong Island peak was approximately 45% percent. Everest is approximately 33% (they were off the top of my head). I just find that calculating this way is easier to understand.

It also goes into AMS, HAPE and HACE, which I actually forgot to mention at all. But basically, you either feel sick with AMS (I saw someone turn 20 years older, and go completely grey at 4500m), your brain can swell in your skull (HACE), or HAPE is when your lungs start filling with fluid.

Money can’t buy immunity from these conditions, and, whether anyone helps, doesn’t make easier for clients either (in fact, it makes it worse, if the help keeps pushing you). The reason the person I saw turned gray, was precisely because only myself and Sherpas were saying to go down. The rest of the group was encouraging him to push on.

Firstly, your link didn’t show on my phone… It changes nothing. Checking it changes nothing

1. You’re a hypocrite, because “underpaid workers” collect your rubbish, and throw it into a hole nearby (probably in farming land). And despite being in an environment where you can eliminate trash completely, you choose not to, whilst preaching to others that they’re destroying the planet. It’s inconvenient to your argument, which is why you’re shrugging it off.
2. Whats crazy, is that the second time I went to nepal, I actually met one of my ex-porters at a tea house on the way, and we said hello. Apparently, they are all exploited so badly, that they saw me, and wanted to chat with me again.
3. I operate a free hiking group in my free time, which is likely less environmentally damaging than you sitting at home on your computer. I guess the people who join my trips owe me credit for any walk they do too?
4. You were noticeably quiet about any volunteering (I bet you don’t even help your local park rangers by joining clean up days). I guess doing nothing however is ok.
5. I literally am friends with a few Nepalese people that I met in Nepal… who added me on Facebook after getting exploited (apparently). Weird thing to do by them. Actually, my friend (who is nepalese, but lives in Australia at the moment) has mentioned she hopes to summit one day too.

You call people gross all you want to justify your lack of ambition. But, you have no idea what you’re talking about (which became clear even before you mentioned deforestation in your desperate attempt to seem credible)

Nobody was climbing Everest before then for hundreds of years. Absolutely 0% fucking chance that happened lol… especially from the Nepalese side (I seriously doubt from tibet either).

The ice fall on the Nepal side is literally moving 1m every day and constantly changes for starters, and by the time you set up the camps, if there was any bad weather, they might not be there when you come back. Glacier travel you have a team of 2-3 people because of things like ice bridges and crevasses too and it would be impossible to summit without ladders. If you were solo and were doing the drops, your oxygen bottles could be stolen too

It can’t be done without a large team, just like you can’t captain a submarine without a team who built it, and helps maintain it. It is a group effort. Even a job like programming owes credit to a lot of people. Every thing you do does

You do realize that Tenzing was Nepalese too right? He was there with Edmund. Nims purja also had both a small team of climbers who were highly experienced and a much larger team helping. He is Nepalese. Is it exploitation by him too?

What’s gross at this point, is that watching a bbc documentary doesn’t make you a professional lol .You know no dudes, so, I know more dudes than you.

You’re not even getting some of the basics right.

1. On both my trips they only burnt dried yak dung and even the hot water either uses massive reflector solar mirrors or gas . Nobody is carrying wood to any of the camps. Do you think at camp 4 they’re sitting oxygen deprived around a nice fire which produces more co2?
2. Are you running on full renewables at home? Any renewables? Or, is there a double standard? Its ok for you to burn wood at home? If you’re sitting there only with a blanket and no HVAC, congrats, that’s how you stay warm at camp
3. When you go hiking, or pull over on a long drive, do you use a wag bag? If not, you’re not any better than them…
4. The climbing permit has now changed and people have to carry down some garbage, and there is a lot of work going into cleanup. Yes it’s a problem, but it doesn’t make climbing any easier.
5. At kala pattar actually (5500m), I actually saw a mouse which was likely eating scraps. If anything, ironically there is actually more life due to tourists because it’s barren even at that altitude
6. Your phone was produced by someone who didn’t want to work but had to. What is your opinion on that?
7. I also had the great fortune to have lunch with one of the record holders for the first people to complete the seven summits. Nothing about him shouted “wealthy tech bro”. In fact. Nobody at Unwin hut seemed to recognize him except my trainer(who is also a record holder related to Everest)

At this point you’re throwing random things you heard from the documentary at the wall and simply claiming it’s relevant. Big shocker, but a documentary is trying to paint a story. The funny thing is that on one of those documentaries, apparently my guide can be heard on the radio telling people to “go back to sleep”.

Go do a mountaineering course, and then report back at how little of an accomplishment even 8000m is, let alone an altitude where your body is dying, and you have limited time to summit and return before it does.

Also, one other fact that people don’t realise, is that using oxygen makes it sound like a cakewalk, but its not.

Your breath has water vapour in it that freezes and accumulates. So, you’re even competing with your oxygen mask getting frozen shut apparently at high altitude, and have to squeeze it regularly to keep it clean). At 8000m+ you need it, and to sleep at 8000m, you apparently still need some oxygen, or you gag.

Apparently oxygen bottle theft is also common which is another problem

Once you’re at 8000m (camp 4), you’re basically on your own… Yes, its a bigger accomplishment to set up camps and carry everything up, but, it doesn’t mean that even getting to 7000M isn’t a huge achievement (Everest is 8900m).

I am planning to do a 700km walk hopefully within the next year, and, I don’t think anyone is going to downplay it simply because I have done food drops (and had others helping with food drops). Well… Maybe some will…

Finally, Norgay Tenzing and Edmund Hillary had a team of 400 people helping them climb Everest. Yes, that took money too. Are you saying that it wasn’t an achievement?

You’re being upvoted, but, what experience do you have mountaineering training? Any? Have you even got hiking experience

It feels like you’re just saying stuff that simply sounds valid, but is distorted.

1. A good company costs 60K minimum, and another 20K if you want 4L of oxygen.
2. No, you cant just spend 60K and climb either. Nobody will take you.
3. You MUST have 7000m experience, which eliminates mountains like Island Peak and Mera (which was the FULL intention), and it means you have experience staying overnight at altitude.
4. Don’t speak on behalf of the locals. I personally knew 2 different Sherpas who want to climb Everest. One did, the other wanted to (and hopefully has already). Operating as a guide allows them to achieve this
5. Preparing the camps is a matter of time primarily. Summit guides have the advantage of living at 4000m+, so it saves a lot of time.
6. You still carry your own gear at 8000m+ which is basically 30% Oxygen, and you cannot acclimatise.
7. Clients still do many acclimatisation climbs. Getting the camps prepared is basically a matter of time (months).
8. Whilst I agree a lot of it is just rich people trying to get attention, don’t underestimate the level of fitness it takes. Based on my experience a huge number of people can’t even get to base camp (which is only 5400m). People doing Everest don’t simply wake up and do acclimatisation walks. Even at 6000M, you’re at 40% Oxygen, and its already a bit hard to breath… Every step feels a lot harder
9. Staying at the camps isn’t as luxurious as you think lol. That being said, at places like Island Peak Base camp, it actually takes hours to go fetch water. The Base Camp manager handles that
10. Good companies still pay sherpas the FULL amount even if summit/climbing is completely cancelled for the year.
11. I haven’t climbed Everest, but, don’t underestimate the fear of being dropped off in a glacier for the first time, and being told you’ll fall into a crevasse at some point during training. It takes courage too. I have done a large ladder crossing. And, suspect you know what it’s like to wake up and midnight, start climbing, and simply just hope things are ok

Doesn’t make it a fake ass accomplishment

You can’t just stroll up there still.

I’ve done up to 6000m, and hoping to do 7000m.

You do rely on sherpas, but it still isn’t a day hike either. Even Hillary’s team used sherpas to assist

Last Mario kart I played was #8. It’s not really any different to the original. They might as well call it Mario kart hd.

I played wacky wheels more than I ever played Mario kart tbh

He already had an excuse for that. Was busy dealing with daylight savings instead, which of course is more important than your son’s wedding

• Doze off

Are you saying that trump is repeating his YMCA dance because his staff told him to try it once, he saw it was successful and just repeats it constantly because he has nothing else?

Looks like they did get to start operating again

You’re correct. But still, the sequels are never as good as the original. And, i pray nobody needs to sit through another Tupperware party

You sound fun at parties