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What peak would you want to climb before you die

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accualyisdolan
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For me it's either the Vinson massif ( highest peak in antartica
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Mount orihena the highest mountain in French Polynesia http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Qmnt6zCOi0g/Tzcku07CYaI/AAAAAAAAAAg/KO_cYQoq48k/s1600/mont-orohena-267595.jpg
Dec 19 2012 6:58PM
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GEORGEzimmerman
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fucking everest. top of the world. all or nothing pussies lets go.
Dec 19 2012 7:02PM
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a_burger
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Everest would be interesting, that place is crazy. Not many people realize how often people die up there.
Dec 19 2012 7:04PM
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Thadius.Castle
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Kilimanjaro
Dec 19 2012 7:11PM
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accualyisdolan
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K2 is way more difficult than Everest. It is the ultimate
Dec 19 2012 7:13PM
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El_Barto.
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denali
Dec 19 2012 7:19PM
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Rafiki
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that's 100% dependent on the route you take. there's no way to say that one extreme climb like that is harder than the other, because it's all dependent on what route you take.

also OP mine would be Everest. it's on my bucket list, i'm going to do it one day(s)
Dec 19 2012 7:24PM
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accualyisdolan
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The easiest route up k2 is much much harder than the easiest rout up everest
Dec 19 2012 7:32PM
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H8CH
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Made a LOT of first ascents in the himalayas.. Mostly Pakistan and India... so many amazing peaks still untouched in these regions at 6000-7000metres... and still a real expedition feeling... i have no desire to go to everest or K2...

However, that said, i wouldn't mind a yomp up Ama Dablam....
Dec 19 2012 7:34PM
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gatley-o9mil.
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I wanna climb K2 the most dangerous mountain ever
Dec 19 2012 7:36PM
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accualyisdolan
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Post pics of AMA dablam
Dec 19 2012 7:36PM
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H8CH
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its one of the most iconic mountains in the world - invesco use it on their web page and marketing.
Dec 19 2012 7:40PM
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Dec 19 2012 7:41PM
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Pudge
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Shit's so played.

I am thinking quantity over quality.

Every I'd like to ski mountaineer every volcano in Cascadia.
Dec 19 2012 7:52PM
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Rafiki
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technically, k2 is a harder climb. endurance wise, everest is harder.
Dec 19 2012 10:36PM
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CMYK
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Either Cerro Torre
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cerro_Torre
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Or Lotus Flower Tower - Said to be the best rock climb in the world
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lotus_Flower_Tower
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Dec 19 2012 10:59PM
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908
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Dec 19 2012 11:17PM
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sweet_caroline
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I just did that this summer! It was so cool. My profile picture is from the summit at sunrise
Dec 19 2012 11:19PM
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TijmenDal
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- Aconcagua
- Matterhorn (just because)
- Mt. Blanc
- Dhaulagiri (the name is so beautiful, and so is the mountain itself)
- Any 8 thousander

Dec 20 2012 12:52AM
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Stose
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Realistically my baldy which I did last summer
Dec 20 2012 12:53AM
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rudager
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Matterhorn.

Did the Mettelhorn this past summer, and I felt just amazing. But the with the Matterhorn right behind me. It was just unlike anything else


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Top of Mettelhorn

Dec 20 2012 12:53AM
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manutdsaol
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None, mountain climbing has never really interested me, there are places I want to ski before I die though.
Dec 20 2012 1:05AM
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scandy101
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would really like to climb everest, just because its everest. i dont know much at all about climbing or mountaineering but its something that ive always wanted to get into, the stuff fascinates me. i talked to a guy briefly a couple years ago who climbed Everest, the one thing i mostly remember him saying was that one day he decided he wanted to climb everest so he did, i love that mindset.
Dec 20 2012 1:09AM
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volvotom
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Perhaps I am just an alpine purist, but I hate people who go and want to "climb Everest" just so they can say they did it. Spend thousands on a guide and sherpas and gear but still really don't have a passion for the mountains or the activity of alpine climbing.

Anyways, aren't the 7 second summits supposed to be more difficult anyway?
Dec 20 2012 2:19AM
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450out.
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North face of the Eiger
Dec 20 2012 2:23AM
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Puns
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Dec 20 2012 2:25AM
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Malcolm
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I zero passion for climbing so I'd probably climb Everest just for the claim factor. But I also don't wouldn't to be that guy who's always claiming. But then again I wouldn't want to be that guy who's always claiming that he climbed a harder mountain and have to explain why it's a harder mountain to climb.
Dec 20 2012 2:30AM
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steezywannabeezy
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At the moment I am watching Amazon Vertical, s Brit documentary about the first ascent of table mountain, Auyan Tepui in Venezuela. It's on Netflix.

As an avid climber (more than skiing), that's a long list that consists more of areas. I planning to go to the remote Wind River Range in Wyoming this summer to nab some first ascents. The same goes for Alaska, eventually. Of course New Zealand is so inviting. Aconogua is a must. My dad and bro did Kiliminjaro, and my bro isn't really even a climber. As for classics, I want to do the famous north faces in the alps, especially the infamous Eiger.

But really, even though climbing is my number one passion, I don't have an itenerary all drawn up for what I plan to climb. I'm just going to keep climbing for the love of it and see what comes my way.

The only way I'll do Everest or any other 8,000 meter peak is in non-commercialized, Reinhold Messner, cowboy, alpinist, badass style. Fuck desecrating the most sacred place on earth and valuing the top over fellow human lives. Yada yada save rant for another thread.
Dec 20 2012 2:35AM
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steezywannabeezy
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Not that often, relatively. Ten deaths in a season of thousands of ascents is more than usual. Everest is nowhere near the world's most difficult. Vacationing bankers climb it more than diehard climbers. Look at K2 where about 1/3 of those attempt it die. Now that's fucking gnarly.
Dec 20 2012 2:39AM
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steezywannabeezy
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You're just wrong.
Dec 20 2012 2:40AM
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will_powder
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Everest is dumb now. Just a commercialized garbage dump. k2 is probably the hardest.

That being said, I don't really like hiking, but the only real peak I want to climb is Mt. Niblock in Lake Louise. Named after my great-grandpa so thats cool.
Dec 20 2012 2:45AM
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steezywannabeezy
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Thank you for using the proper native name "The Great One" and not some president who has NEVER BEEN TO ALASKA. ... I need to stop posting in this thread. Gettin allllll werked up.
Dec 20 2012 2:45AM
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steezywannabeezy
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Sick claim. Jealous.
Dec 20 2012 2:46AM
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Rafiki
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hold on what?
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Dec 20 2012 2:46AM
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steezywannabeezy
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Clicked post too soon. Please elaborate.
Dec 20 2012 2:47AM
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accualyisdolan
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Matterhorn is ill I've been to zermatt
Dec 20 2012 12:53PM
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accualyisdolan
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Dude even in the summer it's cold up there what are you doing in a wife beater
Dec 20 2012 12:55PM
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Jeebus.
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THE EIGER!
Dec 20 2012 12:56PM
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accualyisdolan
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This was my understanding of k2 vs Everest. Always heard k2 was insanely hard
Dec 20 2012 1:04PM
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yourthemannowdog
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That sounds amazing. I'm really want to go to Afghanistan (I consider most of Pakistan to still be Afghanistan), but it would be such a hassle for me. My Aunt works for the bureau of intelligence and DoD with a very high security clearance (we aren't allowed to know how high up she is). I would have to disclose every person I planned to meet with in Afghanistan, ever where I planned to go and when I came back I would have to disclose everything I person I met, everywhere I went, everything I did, etc.

I'm going to wait until she retires to start traveling to places like Afghanistan, Yemen, India, China, etc.
Dec 20 2012 1:06PM
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rudager
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Mons Royale Merino Wool tank!
I also had my coat with me, but I was pretty damn warm.

However, all that hiking through the glacier and pass gave me a nasty sunburn. And I mean just terrible. The glare was intense.
Dec 20 2012 1:06PM
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steezywannabeezy
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I got a sunburn on the roof of my mouth one from a glacier reflection. No joke.
Dec 22 2012 2:52AM
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db21
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hahahahahaha please tell me you didn't just try to back up that argument with an internet rating
Dec 22 2012 12:09PM
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Rafiki
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pretty sure people do it all the time on here to backup arguments about skis, outerwear, etc. excuse me for not have climbed these yet, 18 is a little young to take on a $40k+ climb of everest and a $15k+ of k2.
Dec 22 2012 2:54PM
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will_powder
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On Everest see this: http://www.theworld.org/2012/05/everest-deaths-linked-to-crowding-on-the-mountain/

On Mt Niblock: My great-grandpa was high up in the Canadian Pacific Railway and a lot of CPR people have mountains named after them. I.E. Mt. Robson
Dec 23 2012 3:20AM
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Skavengers303
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finish off the 46 high peaks of the adks and then probably mt rainier.



yeah, i guess i don't really dream big....
Dec 23 2012 8:14AM
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Dhane
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you get it man.

ive done some expeditions through wyoming (Gros Ventre wilderness mainly) and Idaho and there are some incredibly remote places out there that are just awe inspiring. That being said, i would not do everest. Just from the amount of responses in this thread saying that what they want to climb is enough for me to be turned off. someone said it up there already but its really sad how commercialized and absolutely FILTHY everest is. You can hire sherpas to carry all your shit and just walk behind them in your north face munching down clif bars and throwing your wrappers everywhere while they lay ropes and test snow. its fucked. some friends of mine actually went to Eveerest for a few month just to pack out the insane amout of garbage that ignorant claimers throw around because they just want to climb everest. its really to bad, people dont get it. some even posted a picture above claiming they hiked mettlehorn in a cotton tank top? people dont get it anymore.

whew. i gotta stop.

Dec 23 2012 8:47AM
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Dhane
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hahah dude, your doing it right!  im currently about a quarter done with the high peaks in the ADK and about 3/4 done with the 4,000's in the whites. once im done with that im heading west to bag some more 14,000 footers
Dec 23 2012 8:50AM
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maximiliaan
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i really dont mind climbing any peak, but i do want to use all the normal hard drugs before i die
Dec 23 2012 9:15AM
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Skavengers303
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hell yeah, the whites are fuckin sooo sick. i walked through them this summer while hiking the Appalachian trail. franconia ridge and the presidential were probably the funnest hike of my entire life. i lucked out and had beautiful weather that entire week, so the views we phenomenal. the only part i hated was how commercialized mount Washington was. many tourists looked at me like i was retarded for hiking up it instead of driving/taking the train.

I was kinda debating on going back and trying to complete the rest of them, but as for right now, my mind is set on the adks mostly because i have been hiking them my whole life and it would just mean a lot more to me to finish them off.
Dec 23 2012 9:16AM
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Dhane
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ahhh, i feel you dude. i grew up hiking all over the ADK as well and to this day some of my favorite backpacking triips have been there. gothics? gorgeous! i love the area, the adk have some amazing history as well. i really wanted to finish the high peaks over there before starting the whites, but life took me to NH, so ill have to live vicariously through others getting after it.

 but i totally agree man. mount washington is beautiful, but its pretty sad home commercialized it is. when i last hiked in october we got caught in a little blizzard at the summit, your typical frigid mount wash weather, and we were all bundled up and freezing and when we summitted there were people walking around in shorts and sandals because they drove up. sadly, the same can be said for franconia, im sure you nticed how insane the ruts are coming down from greenleaf hut, but it is such beautiful country. i actually took part in a rescue up there with a few classmates of mine back in september when a guy from boston dislocated his hip between lincoln and little haystack at like 5 in the afternoon and we got him down at like 3 in the morning.  haha, very familiar with the ridge now.

Dec 23 2012 9:23AM
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