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DesertDemonWY

2013-05-23 12:05:33 AM

gotta hand it to you subby, I LMAO

AverageAmericanGuy

2013-05-23 07:29:03 AM

Didn't the first double amputee just finish climbing earlier this week?

What's with all these handicapped people climbing Everest all of a sudden?

Oldiron_79

2013-05-23 07:29:30 AM

But is she hot?

phrawgh

2013-05-23 07:29:46 AM

To be fair, she had a leg up on the competition.

Quantum Apostrophe

2013-05-23 07:30:34 AM

AverageAmericanGuy: Didn't the first double amputee just finish climbing earlier this week?

What's with all these handicapped people climbing Everest all of a sudden?

Amputees are allowed to explore too.

The Pope of Manwich Village

2013-05-23 07:37:31 AM

Can't wait for the first midget lesbian lefthanded Eskimo albino to conquer Chomolungma.

Bashar and Asma's Infinite Playlist

2013-05-23 07:38:45 AM

AverageAmericanGuy: Didn't the first double amputee just finish climbing earlier this week?

What's with all these handicapped people climbing Everest all of a sudden?

Everest is basically a theme park ride at this point. If you hire enough sherpas, you could be carried to the top on a royal litter.

Snapper Carr

2013-05-23 07:38:53 AM

AverageAmericanGuy: Didn't the first double amputee just finish climbing earlier this week?

What's with all these handicapped people climbing Everest all of a sudden?

Advances in adaptive technology have enabled us to do things that weren't possible in the past. Everest has long been considered the pinnacle testing the limits of human endurance so it makes for an obvious goal.

/won't climb Everest anytime soon.
//I get dizzy going up the glass elevator in Reunion Tower.

Smoking GNU

2013-05-23 07:40:12 AM

The Pope of Manwich Village: Can't wait for the first midget lesbian lefthanded Eskimo albino to conquer Chomolungma.

Is that some sort of convoluted masturbation euphemisim?

GBB

2013-05-23 07:40:23 AM

I don't get it.
I'm stumped.
Someone give me a hand here.

fzumrk

2013-05-23 07:40:38 AM

This is great for her and all, but wake me up when someone goes up there just to bring down a hefty bag full of trash (and/or a dead body).

GBB

2013-05-23 07:41:59 AM

AverageAmericanGuy: Didn't the first double amputee just finish climbing earlier this week?

What's with all these handicapped people climbing Everest all of a sudden?

They're ADA complient now. Or at least the Nepali equivilant.
They have ramps, guide rails, and an elevator.

InfrasonicTom

2013-05-23 07:42:57 AM

member when climbing Everest wasn't just another oval sticker for the back window of the minivan?

elkboy

2013-05-23 07:43:12 AM

AverageAmericanGuy: Didn't the first double amputee just finish climbing earlier this week?

What's with all these handicapped people climbing Everest all of a sudden?

They started decades ago... Just now reaching top

Sock Ruh Tease

2013-05-23 07:48:41 AM

At best, she'll get to the top.

At worst, her frozen body will serve as a landmark to future runners. "Take a left turn at One-Leg." Serving humanity in death better than she ever could in life.

Mr_Vimes

2013-05-23 07:50:26 AM

It was only a flesh wound.

Andromeda

2013-05-23 07:52:00 AM

I guess if she doesn't make it up then she'll be hopping mad.

/thought this was on the late side to be making the final ascent actually, the monsoon season's setting in

LandOfChocolate

2013-05-23 07:56:13 AM

fzumrk: This is great for her and all, but wake me up when someone goes up there just to bring down a hefty bag full of trash (and/or a dead body).

This. Everyone should read "High Crimes" by Michael Kodas. The whole Everest industry is disgusting. I have little to no respect for anyone climbing it.

AverageAmericanGuy: Didn't the first double amputee just finish climbing earlier this week?

What's with all these handicapped people climbing Everest all of a sudden?

Everyone with maladies from hangnails to missing limbs is rushing there way up to the top to be the "first X". This way they can eke out a small living on sponsorships and corporate speaking events.

KingKauff

2013-05-23 07:57:04 AM

I'm reading "Into Thin Air" at the moment, so I'm getting a kick, etc. etc.

Perducci

2013-05-23 08:01:09 AM

AverageAmericanGuy: Didn't the first double amputee just finish climbing earlier this week?

What's with all these handicapped people climbing Everest all of a sudden?

They finally got around to painting the disabled parking spaces and adding a wheelchair ramp last month.

Brick-House

2013-05-23 08:10:48 AM

Hop along folks, nothing to see here

The Pope of Manwich Village

2013-05-23 08:11:11 AM

phrawgh: To be fair, she had a leg up on the competition.

And a cut above the rest of us.

fzumrk

2013-05-23 08:12:54 AM

Perducci: AverageAmericanGuy: Didn't the first double amputee just finish climbing earlier this week?

What's with all these handicapped people climbing Everest all of a sudden?

They finally got around to painting the disabled parking spaces and adding a wheelchair ramp last month.

I'm trying to imagine how many switch backs you would need to get a 1:12 slope all the way up there.

IdBeCrazyIf

2013-05-23 08:14:51 AM

Technically hasn't she already had her final leg?

Brick-House

2013-05-23 08:15:56 AM

Does anyone know if she used to work for Obama? Just wondering because of the way she was thrown under the train.

rubi_con_man

2013-05-23 08:25:13 AM

So - What's the story with mountaintop sex?

maddogdelta

2013-05-23 08:25:26 AM

What a mountain may look like.

Mock26

2013-05-23 08:31:05 AM

Is her name Eileen?

WhippingBoy

2013-05-23 08:35:10 AM

Mock26: Is her name Eileen?

Irene. She's Chinese.

Sybarite

2013-05-23 08:40:26 AM

I knew a woman with a prosthetic leg named Arunima.

funzyr

2013-05-23 08:45:05 AM

Sybarite: I knew a woman with a prosthetic leg named Arunima.

What was the name of her other leg?

Louisiana_Sitar_Club

2013-05-23 08:47:21 AM

rubi_con_man: So - What's the story with mountaintop sex?

It depends on the mountain. Summit's good and summit's bad.

Booyah!

Random Anonymous Blackmail

2013-05-23 08:53:17 AM

How come I read prostitute?

Time for coffee.

Akbar the Trappiste Monk

2013-05-23 08:57:00 AM

Approves.

Soygen

2013-05-23 09:05:08 AM

Oh, I laughed, subby!

Billy Bathsalt

2013-05-23 09:13:18 AM

Brick-House: Does anyone know if she used to work for Obama? Just wondering because of the way she was thrown under the train.

Wait, you left out obamacare and Old Ben Ghazi.

Kevbo

2013-05-23 09:26:54 AM

That woman is kind of going out on a limb with this adventure.

CN57

2013-05-23 09:37:50 AM

Subby Pegged this one.

Maud Dib

2013-05-23 09:50:02 AM

One of my favorite Taos ski patrol guys, Dave Hahn, just made his 15th Everest summit, more than any non-sherpa.

http://www.rmiguides.com/blog/category/1/everest

Astorix

2013-05-23 10:05:02 AM

LandOfChocolate: fzumrk: This is great for her and all, but wake me up when someone goes up there just to bring down a hefty bag full of trash (and/or a dead body).

This. Everyone should read "High Crimes" by Michael Kodas. The whole Everest industry is disgusting. I have little to no respect for anyone climbing it.

AverageAmericanGuy: Didn't the first double amputee just finish climbing earlier this week?

What's with all these handicapped people climbing Everest all of a sudden?

Everyone with maladies from hangnails to missing limbs is rushing there way up to the top to be the "first X". This way they can eke out a small living on sponsorships and corporate speaking events.

Except that's becoming so ho-hum now. Their 15 minutes are quickly getting shorted to 1 minute. Just this week some 80 year old Japanese man. Ugh. Everst is a tourist trap now and the sherpas are taking people up by the hundreds at a time.

Astorix

2013-05-23 10:25:19 AM

Look up list of people who have died on Mt. Everest. This year alone, so far, 9 people have died. Two died on May 21st. One on May 17. I've known for a number of years that the Climb is the world's most dangerous tourist attraction and the greedy industry does little to protect people.

High Crimes. Ordered.

hasty ambush

2013-05-23 10:58:15 AM

Astorix: LandOfChocolate: fzumrk: This is great for her and all, but wake me up when someone goes up there just to bring down a hefty bag full of trash (and/or a dead body).

This. Everyone should read "High Crimes" by Michael Kodas. The whole Everest industry is disgusting. I have little to no respect for anyone climbing it.

AverageAmericanGuy: Didn't the first double amputee just finish climbing earlier this week?

What's with all these handicapped people climbing Everest all of a sudden?

Everyone with maladies from hangnails to missing limbs is rushing there way up to the top to be the "first X". This way they can eke out a small living on sponsorships and corporate speaking events.

Except that's becoming so ho-hum now. Their 15 minutes are quickly getting shorted to 1 minute. Just this week some 80 year old Japanese man. Ugh. Everst is a tourist trap now and the sherpas are taking people up by the hundreds at a time.

From what I have read, in terms of difficulty, other mountains like Denali are harder/more challenging.

The highest mountains on the seven continents
High crimes and Into Thin Air I both good books

Astorix

2013-05-23 11:02:53 AM

After reading High Crimes I will have to read Into Thin Air.

Fear_and_Loathing

2013-05-23 02:31:58 PM

hasty ambush: Astorix: LandOfChocolate: fzumrk: This is great for her and all, but wake me up when someone goes up there just to bring down a hefty bag full of trash (and/or a dead body).

This. Everyone should read "High Crimes" by Michael Kodas. The whole Everest industry is disgusting. I have little to no respect for anyone climbing it.

AverageAmericanGuy: Didn't the first double amputee just finish climbing earlier this week?

What's with all these handicapped people climbing Everest all of a sudden?

Everyone with maladies from hangnails to missing limbs is rushing there way up to the top to be the "first X". This way they can eke out a small living on sponsorships and corporate speaking events.

Except that's becoming so ho-hum now. Their 15 minutes are quickly getting shorted to 1 minute. Just this week some 80 year old Japanese man. Ugh. Everst is a tourist trap now and the sherpas are taking people up by the hundreds at a time.

From what I have read, in terms of difficulty, other mountains like Denali are harder/more challenging.

The highest mountains on the seven continents
High crimes and Into Thin Air I both good books

Bourkreives (sp) book was an interesting rebuttal.

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