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#25 Re: Climbing in the 'Death Zone'??
May 27, 2013, 07:17:17 pm
Ladders! Yes, lets put ladders up the Hilary step....

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/may/27/mount-everest-ladder-hillary-step

The comments following are quite witty too...

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Big Brian is doing his bit:

http://www.stuff.co.nz/world/asia/8709168/Climbing-Everest-with-oxygen-not-adventure

"I don't think there should be any expeditions to the mountain unless they are climbing it without oxygen - 29,035ft is just high enough to be climbed without oxygen," he said.

"It's achieving nothing in the development of human will and human achievement and in the spirit of adventure. It's all vanity."


Blessed has been a hero of mine since I first watched Flash Gordon. Nothing has changed.

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Big Brian is doing his bit:

http://www.stuff.co.nz/world/asia/8709168/Climbing-Everest-with-oxygen-not-adventure

"I don't think there should be any expeditions to the mountain unless they are climbing it without oxygen - 29,035ft is just high enough to be climbed without oxygen," he said.

"It's achieving nothing in the development of human will and human achievement and in the spirit of adventure. It's all vanity."


Blessed has been a hero of mine since I first watched Flash Gordon. Nothing has changed.

Wtf? Has lagers hacked you ukb account again? ;)

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#28 Re: Climbing in the 'Death Zone'??
May 28, 2013, 01:04:02 am
Ladders! Yes, lets put ladders up the Hilary step....
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/may/27/mount-everest-ladder-hillary-step

A ladder on the Hilary Step?! Cheating cunts, they'll be using kneepads next.

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#29 Re: Climbing in the 'Death Zone'??
May 28, 2013, 09:48:29 am
Ladders! Yes, lets put ladders up the Hilary step....

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/may/27/mount-everest-ladder-hillary-step

The comments following are quite witty too...

It's a fucking circus and it's not going to change so they may as well make it safer. With the conveyor belt of fixed ropes already in place I don't see what difference a ladder really makes. As the comments say, might as well install a giant lift and have done with it. Anyone who wants an actual mountaineering challenge can go climb somewhere else.

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#30 Re: Climbing in the 'Death Zone'??
May 28, 2013, 09:51:08 am
Brian Blessed is gorgeous. Just what I like in a man...

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#31 Re: Climbing in the 'Death Zone'??
May 28, 2013, 09:58:25 am
Brian Blessed is gorgeous. Just what I like in a man...

Looks like Brian likes what he sees in Jasper* Flash ;)

Now I understand....



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#32 Re: Climbing in the 'Death Zone'??
May 28, 2013, 10:27:56 am

I like Blessed's slightly rusty sheriff's badge.

There surely can't be a picture out there with more homosexual iconography than this?

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#33 Re: Climbing in the 'Death Zone'??
May 28, 2013, 11:09:45 am
There surely can't be a picture out there with more homosexual iconography than this?

Now theres a challenge.... Oh Stallioni..... ;)

 

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