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Re: Mystery identity of 'Green Boots' climber is finally solved after DNA test

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Post by prennert »

DonHopkins wrote: post #67
snorkel wrote: post #23

I can’t imagine having a hobby that involves passing by, and in some cases climbing over, the exposed remains of others who died doing that same activity.

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From what I understand, the queue is not there always.

There is a very narrow window in spring during which the ascent is possible, due to weather (enough ice to get over some sections, but weather not leathal). If you go too early you freeze or get blown off in 0 visibility, if you go too late, the ice has thawed too much and you get washed off in the rapids.

Sometimes the window is only something like 10 days during which you (and everyone else) have to ascent and descent from basecamp.

Re: Mystery identity of 'Green Boots' climber is finally solved after DNA test

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Post by zeafoamrun »

tomaytotomato wrote: post #66
krunck wrote: post #21

If you are averse to the Daily Mail, you can try this article instead: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jun/22/mt-everest-gre...

> If you are averse to the Daily Mail, you can try this article instead.. The irony of this though is that you just become bucketed in another consumer group. Resist the packaging of yourself by media firms and marketing. Try and consume news through the sources like AFP or Reuters (unfortunately not free anymore)

> ... bucketed in another consumer group ... Resist the packaging of yourself by media firms and marketing.

> Suggests some different buckets.

Re: Mystery identity of 'Green Boots' climber is finally solved after DNA test

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Post by modernerd »

ijidak wrote: post #54
RijilV wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

14 of them. The first person to climb them all did so without supplemental oxygen. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reinhold_Messner

Ok. This is the most interesting man in the world. Literally.

If you're ever in Northern Italy the Messner museum in Kronplatz is absolutely worth a visit.

https://www.messner-mountain-museum.it/en/discover/corones/

Re: Mystery identity of 'Green Boots' climber is finally solved after DNA test

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Post by 21asdffdsa12 »

trhway wrote: post #57
dhosek wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Back in the 90s, I went to see an IMAX film about climbing Everest and at the beginning, I was thinking, “I could do this,” but as it continued my view turned into, “I will never do this. This is insane.” What’s really scary now is that it’s turned into something where people have to literally stand in line to reach the summit.

With today tech - cameras, drones - the tragedy would unfold like a reality TV. Several months ago a woman broke her leg and stuck as a result at 6800m on Pobeda Peak in Russia and died in several days while the whole country was watching https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbr02F36YdQ

There was a video-stream company that got famous live-streaming a technician who fell when dismounting a condor-egg camera.

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Post by TFNA »

trhway wrote: post #57
dhosek wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Back in the 90s, I went to see an IMAX film about climbing Everest and at the beginning, I was thinking, “I could do this,” but as it continued my view turned into, “I will never do this. This is insane.” What’s really scary now is that it’s turned into something where people have to literally stand in line to reach the summit.

With today tech - cameras, drones - the tragedy would unfold like a reality TV. Several months ago a woman broke her leg and stuck as a result at 6800m on Pobeda Peak in Russia and died in several days while the whole country was watching https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbr02F36YdQ

> 6800m on Pobeda Peak in Russia

I thought, “There’s no way a peak in Russia can be that high”, and indeed, you got the unit wrong, this is 3,003 m. [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peak_Pobeda_(Sakha)

Re: Mystery identity of 'Green Boots' climber is finally solved after DNA test

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Post by dreamcompiler »

vasco wrote: post #55
dreamcompiler wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As a firefighter/EMT I occasionally have to deal with death, and I will even put myself in somewhat dangerous situations (that I've been trained for, and for which I have appropriate PPE) if there's a chance I can save a life. But putting myself in a situation where the likelihood of dying is quite high for no reason other than to say I did it? No thanks. Nevertheless I'm glad the family of Mr. Morup is no longer won…

I mean you do firefighting because you like something about it, maybe the feeling of doing something good. So it should be understandable doing something dangerous for some good internal feeling. Your driving feel good feeling is just different from theirs. The fact you dismissed it to just be "to say they did it" doesn't mean that's how they feel about it. There's ways to be dismissive about being a firefighter too,…

I do do some things just to say I did them. Or to compete with myself so I can push farther. But for the most part those things have much lower risk of death than climbing Everest. And it's easy for my family to retrieve my body in the unlikely event that I die.

If I ever climbed Everest it would only be to recover some of the bodies or preferably bring down somebody still alive who needs medical attention. I would not consider it "fun" but that's just me.

Re: Mystery identity of 'Green Boots' climber is finally solved after DNA test

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Post by everyone »

snorkel wrote: post #23

I can’t imagine having a hobby that involves passing by, and in some cases climbing over, the exposed remains of others who died doing that same activity.

I mean Everest is so gauche also, only rich morons do it.

Re: Mystery identity of 'Green Boots' climber is finally solved after DNA test

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Post by trhway »

TFNA wrote: post #75
trhway wrote: post #57

Earlier quoted context omitted.

With today tech - cameras, drones - the tragedy would unfold like a reality TV. Several months ago a woman broke her leg and stuck as a result at 6800m on Pobeda Peak in Russia and died in several days while the whole country was watching https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbr02F36YdQ

> 6800m on Pobeda Peak in Russia I thought, “There’s no way a peak in Russia can be that high”, and indeed, you got the unit wrong, this is 3,003 m. [0] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peak_Pobeda_(Sakha)

you've got the wrong peak. 7439m:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jengish_Chokusu

3000m is nothing. Mount Shasta is 4200m and we, just regular guys, walked up to its summit without any experience, etc. in 2 days. People easy do it in 1 day.

Re: Mystery identity of 'Green Boots' climber is finally solved after DNA test

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Post by TFNA »

trhway wrote: post #78
TFNA wrote: post #75

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 6800m on Pobeda Peak in Russia I thought, “There’s no way a peak in Russia can be that high”, and indeed, you got the unit wrong, this is 3,003 m. [0] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peak_Pobeda_(Sakha)

you've got the wrong peak. 7439m: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jengish_Chokusu 3000m is nothing. Mount Shasta is 4200m and we, just regular guys, walked up to its summit without any experience, etc. in 2 days. People easy do it in 1 day.

Jengish Chokusu is in Kyrgyzstan, not Russia. And during the Soviet era it was part of the Kyrgyz SFSR, not the Russian SFSR. You’d have to be talking about events happening before 1917 (when it was part of the general Russian Empire) for someone writing in 2026 to reasonably describe it as “in Russia”.

> 3000m is nothing

Not (to speak of the other Peak Pobeda) in Yakutia.

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Post by lifestyleguru »

1over137 wrote: post #38
TFNA wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A good friend of mine is a professional alpinist who focuses only climbing eight-thousanders with no supplementary oxygen. Through him I’ve met others and learned about this whole community. A number of people are as weird and eccentric as us here in computer-nerd circles; one is tempted to armchair-diagnose some as autistic and climbing as their fixation, so something like Green Boots or the death of peers just won’…

Aren't there only a dozen or so mountains above 8000 m? Can you really do that without supplementary oxygen? Amazing.

Sure you can. Actually true climbers wear at all times a tight choker below 4000m to compensate excess oxygen in the air.
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