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I'd like to complain to WA State Parks that the stickman is being unsafe by not wearing a helmet...

i thought it matched the "faking injury" thread quite well

I was climbing once with a certain person who has done quite a bit of route development in Skaha and Squamish. I just happened to mention the words "Fred Beckey" in some context and he replied with "Did you know I have climbed many more first ascents than Fred Beckey has?".

http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2009-03/24/reports-of-my-death.aspx (…) “In two investigations between 2007 and 2009, I encountered countless examples of fake deaths in all corners of the online world. A contributor to a knitting forum, for instance, faked her death rather than provide patterns she had been commissioned to design. A member of an online art gallery discovered that the 18-year-old, gay, male, lead-singer of a rock band, with whom she had developed a close friendship before he was killed in a car crash, was actually the work of two 14-year-old girls, who had entirely invented his life. A teenage British boy broke up with his real-life girlfriend to marry a 16-year-old online friend, later discovering (on her “death”) that his deceased wife-to-be was a 12-year-old fantasist who had been sending photos of her older cousin and inventing graphic details of incest and rape. “A LiveJournal community, known as fake_lj_deaths, has more than 6,000 members committed to investigating suspicious “deaths” reported on the social networking site. The sleuths are motivated by a desire to spare credulous readers the all-too-real grief and bereavement over the imaginary passing of a sometimes-imaginary friend. “I would venture only one in ten deaths that we are asked about turns out not to be fake,” said Anne Soffee, the moderator of fake_lj_deaths, the community that has investigated, and exposed, hundreds of such frauds. (((That’s really pretty good, eh? You have to wonder which of the major social-media sites is the fake-deadest. I’d have guessed LiveJournal, but you never know without some crisp, firm evidence provided by formerly employed print journalists.))) “The motivations of the fakers are almost as opaque as the fictions themselves, but one clue may lie in the power granted by online communities to quantify the sympathy for an illness or the shock of a death via comments boxes or replies to a journal thread. During a lengthy battle against terminal illness, blog writers can attract support from thousands of friends who follow them through treatments, and who cry real tears when they die. In more than one example, bereaved online friends have created tribute websites where they have posted poetry and photographs in memorial books that stretch to hundreds of pages. It feeds the desire of the narcissist and provides the lonely with the attention that they may never previously have known. “I have never felt more loved and cared for in my entire life,” wrote one faker, named “Sara” in an astonishing confession of a life filled with online deaths. “I suddenly craved for everyone’s attention, love, care, concern and affection … People posted messages about how they were very concerned, they were keeping “Sara” in their thoughts and prayers, and so many things. It became more interesting to me. It became very appealing to me. I decided to play with it more. I do not know how or why, I just did.” Any investigation into fake online deaths soon encounters the name “limeybean”, the online moniker of one of the most notorious and far-reaching fakes, which originated in the UK in late 2005. Limeybean was the 18-year-old daughter of immigrants to London, with a family history of tuberculosis. She was a popular and prominent contributor to a Harry Potter fan community, and a prodigious writer of journals, on which she announced one day that she too had been diagnosed with the same rare strand of untreatable TB that had killed her father and twin brother. As limeybean struggled gamely with her illness, she garnered a huge following of admiring, concerned readers, who offered their support via email and in comments on her blog, sometimes even talking to her in conversations punctuated by coughs and wheezes. When limeybean eventually succumbed to her illness, news relayed on a confidante’s MySpace page, there was an unprecedented outpouring of grief from numerous other friends who had drawn strength and inspiration from her battle. One of their number, however, was not so credulous…

last i heard bridge is still out at Lava Creek canyon and no-one is doing the traverse as a result

Speaking of Biblical verses some church sign near the train station the other day had "Hebrews 5:13" on it and it made me immediately think of Israeli sport climbers.

All accounts must be considered in light of the observer.

i read some unsubstantiated slander once about sport climbers-turned-boulderers who have said "Take" while highballing. say what you will about the pad people but it's undeniably harder to dog a boulder problem.

Ya my friend Vida shot those with a still camera from near the lake.

There was a famous Russian fatality on Khan Tengri, I think, in the 70s where the lead climber knocked off a huge dinner-plate directly at his belayer and yelled "Ice". Belayer looked up, took it in the face, killed instantly. It's in Shataev's book.

My helmet is purple and has a Ride Me logo

"WAAAAAAAATCH MEEEEEEEEEEE!" "watching's not gonna help much cowboy!"

Microsoft Bung *

tits

What do YOU think Bing has in that pipe?

If you get an Arcteryx logo tat and send them a photo it used to be they'd give you a free harness

Copp, Dash and Johnson Search Update 6/5/2009 1:59:24 PM This may or may not be accurate in two hours, but Nick Martino and Eric Decaria are in San Francisco trying to get visas for China. Assuming they can get visas today, they would fly out tonight or tomorrow and be on the ground in Chengdu by Sunday afternoon or evening and at basecamp by Monday evening, China time. There are 2 Chinese climbers who arrived at base camp last night and will head out to advanced base camp at first light. 2 more Chinese climbers are on route from Beijing and will be arriving at base camp shortly. Pete Takeda and Steve Su are on deck and planning to leave Boulder on Sunday. Jonny Copp, Micah Dash and Wade Johnson Search Update 6/5/2009 11:11:00 AM June 5, 2009, Boulder, CO—Three Boulder, Colorado climbers—Jonathan Copp (age 35), Micah Dash (age 30), and Wade Johnson (age 24)—are overdue, having missed their flight on June 3 from Chengdu, China. The three traveled to Mount Edgar (6818 meters/22,368 feet) on the Minya Konka massif, Western Sichuan Province, China. They embarked from base camp on May 20, 2009. There hasn’t been any contact with the climbers since. Copp and Dash are highly experienced alpinists and professional climbers who have many years experience tackling big unclimbed mountains around the world. They received the Mugs Stump Award grant for this expedition from the American Alpine Club in 2008 but had to delay the climb until now, due to political unrest in the region. Johnson (a photographer with Sender Films) was accompanying Dash and Copp to base camp and did not intend to attempt the climb to the summit. On June 4, 2009, a small party of experienced climbers, organized through the Sichuan Mountaineering Association, arrived in “base camp” and are preparing to continue up to the “advanced base camp” to gather information. Search efforts are being professionally coordinated by friends and colleagues in Boulder and more climbers from China and the US are being deployed to the area. Developing information will be shared as soon as it is available. “We’re taking all the necessary steps to gather information about the climbers’ whereabouts and haven’t identified any complications beyond their lateness. Although we’re concerned, in alpine climbing it’s not unusual to for climbers to be delayed or out of contact for this long. We are still hopeful,” says Robb Shurr, spokesperson for the search effort.

The F-bomb appears in the latest red Beckey guide!

Where is the Nodder?

You need a monocle tattooed on your other hand for that one really.