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mouser:
One of my favorite books is Into Thin Air, about a serious tragedy on Mt Everest: https://www.amazon.com/Into-Thin-Air-Personal-Disaster/dp/0385494785

Here's a nice video talking about the logistics of climbing Mt Everest:

Deozaan:
Off topic: You keep posting videos of things that I've either already seen recently (such as those speedrun history videos) or videos that YouTube keeps recommending to me. So either YouTube is just pushing the same videos to everyone, or you and I seem to have similar tastes in videos. :Thmbsup:

mouser:
So either YouTube is just pushing the same videos to everyone, or you and I seem to have similar tastes in videos
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i suspect some combination of the two.

tomos:
interesting video

One of my favorite books is Into Thin Air, about a serious tragedy on Mt Everest: https://www.amazon.com/Into-Thin-Air-Personal-Disaster/dp/0385494785
-mouser (December 03, 2018, 05:02 PM)
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re the book:
I've read about it before -- that he gives another guide a lot of the blame and accepts none for himself. The other guide wrote a book in response. Dont know if you knew all that (or read the other book). If the one star reviews are to be trusted though, the response book was very poorly written.

mouser:
and accepts none for himself.
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I disagree with this -- I think he spreads the blame around quite a bit, and takes for himself a very generous helping.  No one comes away looking very good.  But the other book is worth reading too.

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