What if someone had told Green Boots to walk it off? Surely he'd be alive today!
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JustMe22 wrote:
What if someone had told Green Boots to walk it off? Surely he'd be alive today!
He just needed the same help these volunteers give high school girls XCers as they stop dead in their tracks one step over the finish line leaving 200 girls coming down the chute no where to run as they fight for space like the blue hairs line up with their carts as Costco starts rolling up the door at 9a
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what's the big deal? wrote:
The actual distance you travel when you climb Everest is about 13 miles. I get that it's cold and uphill, but ultimately it's basically just a half-marathon in extremely crappy conditions.
Why all the massive exaggeration about the challenge?
almost all hills
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what\'s the big deal? wrote:
The actual distance you travel when you climb Everest is about 13 miles. I get that it's cold and uphill, but ultimately it's basically just a half-marathon in extremely crappy conditions.
Why all the massive exaggeration about the challenge?
I bet Seth James Demoor would demolish the existing FKT. It's basically just Pikes Peak with a dusting of snow
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If you are in shape you can do it without supplemental oxygen, carry your skis, and then ski back down.
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Even more impressive feat on Everest. Cycled to the mountain, climbed it with no supplemental oxygen and then rode off.
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what's the big deal? wrote:
The actual distance you travel when you climb Everest is about 13 miles. I get that it's cold and uphill, but ultimately it's basically just a half-marathon in extremely crappy conditions.
Why all the massive exaggeration about the challenge?
Seracs and ice chunks the size of buildings falling on you, avalanches sweeping you into crevasses where you'll be entombed forever, crazy altitude, and GI sickness at basecamp. Absolutely insane weather. On top of that, the monotony of spending 1 month (rapid ascent with pre-acclimation) or 2-3 months (regular) in a tent eating trash food.
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power through wrote:
People take it too slow and end up spending too much time exposed to the elements. If they just powered through and treated it like a fast hike, they’d make it up and down in a day. 13 miles would be a 4 hour flat hike for a person of average fitness. Even if you move half that speed on account of the slope, you’re at the top and turning around at 8 hours. People who think they need to take it slow are the ones who freeze.
People that treat it like a fast hike end up getting injured and/or falling.
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gilded_time wrote:
How many half marathons have queues like this?To get into a porta potty? Every one!!
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power through wrote:
People take it too slow and end up spending too much time exposed to the elements. If they just powered through and treated it like a fast hike, they’d make it up and down in a day. 13 miles would be a 4 hour flat hike for a person of average fitness. Even if you move half that speed on account of the slope, you’re at the top and turning around at 8 hours. People who think they need to take it slow are the ones who freeze.
This is what made Ueli Steck revolutionary, and I don't use that word lightly, in mountaineering. Basically took a marathoners mentality to climbing. Of course it produced some amazing accomplishments until it didn't, he died in fall like half those dudes. But if you want to take out at least part of the risk by minimizing time spent at extreme altitude and unpredictable weather changes, his approach nailed that at least.
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what's the big deal? wrote:
The actual distance you travel when you climb Everest is about 13 miles. I get that it's cold and uphill, but ultimately it's basically just a half-marathon in extremely crappy conditions.
Why all the massive exaggeration about the challenge?
The best running backs in the NFL don't even run a mile in 17 games. I do more than that for my warm up. Geez.
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gilded_time wrote:
what's the big deal? wrote:
The actual distance you travel when you climb Everest is about 13 miles. I get that it's cold and uphill, but ultimately it's basically just a half-marathon in extremely crappy conditions.
Why all the massive exaggeration about the challenge?
Exactly, except more than 80% of the deaths are on the descent; the other 13 miles.
I went out way too fast in my first marathon. I died a painful death the last 13 miles.
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Footing is terrible, you're not walking up a paved side walk. You're slogging through snow and ice with a lot of excess weight and restricted movement from your warm clothing.
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Tyler Andrews treating it like a half Mary ‘thon, even the mountaineering community is interested
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The biggest challenge to climbing Everest is coming up with a disposable $75,000 and a few months off work.
Physically, like you said, it's just a short uphill hike at high altitude. Anyone that gloats about doing Everest is soft.22 -
what's the big deal? wrote:
The actual distance you travel when you climb Everest is about 13 miles. I get that it's cold and uphill, but ultimately it's basically just a half-marathon in extremely crappy conditions.
Why all the massive exaggeration about the challenge?
Maybe you should go and report back.
I look at the Pikes Peak Ascent and think---wow that is a slow half marathon time!
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Kvothe wrote:
9.8m/s^2
That makes no sense (I know what it is but it makes no sense still).
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what's the big deal? wrote:
The actual distance you travel when you climb Everest is about 13 miles. I get that it's cold and uphill, but ultimately it's basically just a half-marathon in extremely crappy conditions.
Why all the massive exaggeration about the challenge?
Hats off to the people who responded seriously. A reason I keep coming back to this hell hole of a site.
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There is no Death Zone in a traditional 1/2 marathon or marathon. People die trying to climb those 13 miles, sometimes a lot of people like in 96.
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