glassgowkiss

According to your friend in Bellingham? No according to someone, who summited 8x8000m peaks and is a correspondent to the Alpinist.

Actually this is new. First of all Moro/Steck were not using the sherpas for support. So (according to some sources) sherpas were pissed, that these guys were making them less relevant. This is also first time someone was physically assaulted by sherpas in this manner. Yes, I know about verbal exchanges and such, but this crosses into a completely new territory.

Sherpas need to figure shit out. The only reason these jobs exist is because high altitude tourism. The moment this shit is happening a lot of it will just move to another location.

if you say so.....

Sherpas are becoming like cosa nostra very quick. I have a first hand account, by a polish climber, where sherpas just took down his tent (late October), while he was soloing without oxygen. Upon return to 7000m camp, he found no tent, no stove or sleeping bag.

read so besides blowjob serving rich bitch we have now low in the everest saga- a fist fight in camp 2. looks like sherpas want to work mafia style, you don't pay, you don't climb.

I have work at Metolius in the past and they use ISO9000, which requires material and product batch testing. And nobody in climbing industry will accept static load testing. Most likely it was a combination of weak material, combined with bad forging, but again- that should have been caught before the hangers went into circulation.

Rat, it's not 70's anymore. Yes, I agree- climbing is dangerous, but selling sub- standard bolt hangers is simply not acceptable at this day and age. Climbing gear moved from a garage operation to real manufacturing, with material match testing and all the ISO9000 blessings. To me it is important, that if I am on a run-out pitch, I don't want to worry, of my cam fall apart in case I take w whipper. The same thing- if I am sport climbing- I don't want worry if the hangers are strong enough. selling shit, because you want cut corners on costs of manufacturing should be branded and companies like that should be kicked to the curb.

most likely bring boots for the descent.

don't feed the troll, don't read her blog. If she had zero clicks on her blog, she would stop posting bullshit. "Climbing" 8000m peak with oxygen, following fixed lines, with sherpas carrying your shit is not climbing. If you are not doing it on your own, you are not doing it, period. Call bullshit- bullshit.

your response reminds me of the Colorado Hardware and their Alien debacle. Regardless how you slice it, a hanger should not crack like that- period. If the force would be big enough, there should be a deformity of the shape, before material failure. And what "unsubstantiated conjecture" are talking? Are you blind? This picture says everything.

HERE Looks like another high quality gear from China. I might add Metolius is one of the few companies producing gear here in the US. On the other hand Black Diamond moved all their production offshore, that includes China.

Says the guy whose IQ falls 2 standard deviations below the mean. wow, I am impressed with with your vocabulary- whom did you ask to write that? Your mom. Like I said, right over your head!

Says the guy whose IQ falls 2 standard deviations below the mean. wow, I am impressed with with your vocabulary- whom did you ask to write that?

Says the guy who still thinks "your mom" is still a funny retort - beyond the 7th grade, and repeated thousands of times. Well, I have to reply in a manner YOU can actually comprehend. Most of the points and ideas people are posting here, go right over your head.

You are a typical fox "news" listener- incapable of formulating an original thought.

People worry about terrorism. Between food industry, gun manufacturers and pharmaceutical corporations, you have million more chances being killed by them, rather then by a terrorists.

Yes, this is a great lecture. The argument of weight gain caused by proliferation of fructose in our diet in infants is hard to argue with. I would add, that equally damaging effect will have proliferation of Growth Hormone and use of antibiotics. I think there should be a strong push to curb damaging effect of food industry in this country.

Layton Kor died

Buy one there! You can't fly with a stove, they will yank your luggage out.

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I'm not sure it would be a best seller. People don't want to hear this advice, they want "one weird trick" and paleo diets and juice fasting and fast cures that don't involve hardwork or fewer slices of bacon I am sure eating processed food, containing growth hormone, antibiotics, artificial food coloring, phosphoric acid, BPA (just to name w few things) has nothing to do with epidemic of weight gain. I know a female marathon runner here in Bellingham. She runs marathons in around 3:05, so she doesn't lack training of fitness, but is still on fat side. Sorry, but a proper diet is equally important in weight loss.

You paste a bunch of garbage about the molecular biology of metabolism and then say this. Yes I do. That is exact my point. You have to have a certain base knowledge or you need help. How the fuck are you suppose to achieve weight loss, if you really don't know basics about human physiology? If anyone get to the point of being fat (and in medical terms it's 25% of male body is composed of adipose tissue), it's obvious to me that: A- you don't know a fuck about exercise B- you don't know a fuck about proper eating. Dx- find help or perish from cardio-vascular disease. And Kimmo keeps spouting some complete bullshit pseudo- physiology, without shred of knowledge of the subject. So ML is only partially right- not only you can die of starvation while still fat, but also still stupid.

Looks to me, that in the past 25 years this country is just sprouting a bunch of ideologues and uneducated morons. HERE