Originally posted by: Sraaz
I saw on the news this morning that the guy is actually alive...
Originally posted by: JEDIYoda
YES--the guy survived....In fact i think he made the descent all by himself...
They say what saved his ass was that the tent was heated..
Originally posted by: HN
Originally posted by: notfred
More than 1,500 climbers have reached the summit of Mount Everest in the last 53 years and some 190 have died trying.
Damn. You have greater than a 1/10 chance of dying if you try to climb that mountain.
there's something wrong with this math.
Originally posted by: Mill
Originally posted by: Bolvangar
Originally posted by: Mill
Originally posted by: Bolvangar
I climbed the northeast ridge from tibet. June of last year.
I would not climb from nepal even if the climb was free, too many idiots that dont know what there doing over there. There are literally lines up the mountain on that side on good weather days.
You are entirely full of sh!t. Otherwise you've broken a record and yet there's nary a mention of a Chris at age 19 or even 20 making that climb.
1. Thats not my myspace, never have and never will have a myspace, sorry.
2. I'm 27
3. I have better things to do than post bullshit about climbing mountains, I'd be happy to send you pics of me on top when I get back home. Currently out of town.
So, it is just a coincidence that someone named Chris who lives in Florida uses the name Bolvangar on this forum and on Myspace, both are interested in mountain-climbing, says his interests are: "Rock Climbing, Mountaineering, Mountain/Road Biking..." Claims a goal is: "Goal You Would Like To Achieve This Year: How about 2 years? K2....." "How do you want to Die: On a mountain... in the himalaya's"
Or:
http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview...hreadid=1753966&enterthread=y&arctab=y
In which you talk about going to Argentina for Christmas, and strangely enough there's a blog post on your Myspace talking about the same thing.
Long link
"Wednesday, January 04, 2006
Back from Argentina
Well after sleeping for the past 24 hours i'm finally back and in a conscious state haha.
Had a ****** blast in Argentina, have about 2 gigs worth of pictures. The food was awesome, I was eating 4 dollar filet's over there that were about 3x the size of any you'd get here. The women over there are freakin beautiful, even better than Russia.
New years was great, the hyatt had a big party and like an 8 course meal, ryan (our camera guy) and I pimped some hot polka dot shirts and got some nice looks from all the old people there. Open bar all night long. I met this really awesome girl from spain on new years. Sucks we both had to go our seperate ways and go home =(
Gonna go through some of the pics now, so thats it, i'm back. give me a call!"
Or here where you claim to be going to Amsterdam in 3 weeks, which again, just happens to match up with the Blog. http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview...atid=38&threadid=1826725&enterthread=y
"Lucas and I found some dirt cheap 500 dollar round trip tickets to europe so it looks like were going! SCORE. The plan is as follows -
April 7th, leave miami.
April 8th, arrive madrid, spain. take overnight train to paris france.
April 9th, arrive paris, france.
April 10th, hang out in paris.
April 11th, head to brussles, stay the night.
April 12th, head to amsterdam
April 13th, hang out in amsterdam
April 14th, head to zurich, switzerland.
April 15th, overnight train to barcelona, spain.
April 16th, hang out in barcelona for the day, head to madrid.
April 17th, arrive madrid.
April 18th, leave madrid, back to miami =(
4 countries, 11 days!
hopefully my new friend that lives in spain that speaks like 7 different languages will be joining us so we will have someone to translate!
EUROTRIP!"
Or these threads in which you claim to live in/near Naples:
http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview...hreadid=1690442&enterthread=y&arctab=y
http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview...hreadid=1374535&enterthread=y&arctab=y
Which is funny considering the "Myspace" you don't have has its location listed as Estero, Florida which is 20 miles from Naples.
Quit lying kid
Originally posted by: notfred
More than 1,500 climbers have reached the summit of Mount Everest in the last 53 years and some 190 have died trying.
Damn. You have greater than a 1/10 chance of dying if you try to climb that mountain.
Originally posted by: dugweb
now the myspace account says "cancelled or deleted"
interesting...
Evidently not. :disgust:Originally posted by: Bolvangar
4. I have better things to do than post bullshit about climbing mountains.
Originally posted by: Excelsior
Originally posted by: Antisocial Virge
Originally posted by: Falcon39
Originally posted by: Antisocial Virge
Some people need to read up on what its actually like to climb Everest. Any body who tried to help him probably would have died also. Its not as simple as walking him down a path. Also, even with O2 being used, your running on about 50% brain power.
He was passed by 40 people. I think between them they could have got him down, but no. They continued to the summit like pricks. And I think Sir Edmund Hillary knows more about climbing Everest than you.
And it happens every year and the only reason people are making a fuss about it is because Sir Edmund Hillary is talking about it People get left to die because they are too far up and too far gone to get down safe. Sir Edmund Hillary was just the first to climb Everest, just like the 1500 people since, he's not god on the subject.
Jon Krakauer has a book called Into Thin Air thats good.
Lets see what his mother has to say.
"Sharp's mother, Linda, was quoted in the Evening Gazette newspaper in Britain as saying that she did not blame other climbers for her son's death.
"Your responsibility is to save yourself - not to try and save anybody else."
"
There is a flaw with that quote from the mother.
The other climbers werent trying to save themselves, but reach the summit. This wasn't about survival for them.
Originally posted by: DonVito
JLGatsby, is that you?
Originally posted by: Mill
Originally posted by: Bolvangar
Originally posted by: Mill
Originally posted by: Bolvangar
I've climed everest..... here's my .02....
Everyone saying they would have helped him....all I can say is go climb your way to 28k and let me know what you think then?
At 28,000 feet, it's hard enough to care for yourself, moving 1 foot in front of the other becomes a task like no other, spend enough time up there and doing something as easy as tieing your boots becomes a difficult task. There are not many people on this planet with the conditioning to take themself and another person down from 28,000 feet.
I'm not saying I wouldn't stop and see what was going on, see if there was anything I could offer the guy, however the chance of us making it down if I tried to help him down are virtually zero.
Most of the climbers of the 40 person group were most likely rather inexperienced to be climbing everest, as much of the people who climb it are. I've climbed my whole life, I've guided trips on 5 different continents, so I'd say I'm in pretty good shape and I can tell you without a doubt that even I as a rather experienced climber could have done NOTHING for him.
Even stopping to see how he is doing is a fair risk in itself. Stop for any period of time in those temperatures and you will start to freeze your ass off, trust me I know. The balance of moving slowly, but rarely stopping is something to be taken seriously at those altitudes and temperatures. They call it the death zone for a reason, it's well known among climbers that once you reach it you are on your own.
Maybe some of you can now understand why some people didn't even stop, I would not be one of those, but to some people stopping to try to help a guy thats pretty much allready dead isn't worth risking your own life over.
People who climb Everest know the risks associated with it, and shouldn't be there in the first place if their not willing to accept the possible out come. I've risked my life to climb the mountain, and I'd happily do it again. You have to be a climber to understand.
What side did you climb? Oh, and what year?
Edit: The reason I ask is because I pretty much don't believe you. Reason being that your Myspace Page lists you as being 20: http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fu...ion=user.viewprofile&friendid=35326806
The youngest American to summit Everest was 21 and that happened in 2003. Are you alleging to have broken the record? Secondly, I can find no mention in any of the Everest databases of a Chris your age having scaled Everest. Especially not with a last name starting with a B.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_climbing_Mount_Everest
So, basically, you are a liar.
By the way, your info is incorrect.
Jess was 20.
http://climb.mountainzone.com/everest/2003/html/sp-generations.html
Doesn't really matter since you aren't him and you haven't climbed Everest.
David Sharp, 34, died apparently of oxygen deficiency while descending from the summit during a solo climb last week.
Originally posted by: DAPUNISHER
Evidently not. :disgust:Originally posted by: Bolvangar
4. I have better things to do than post bullshit about climbing mountains.