/lit/ - Literature

Mountain climbing is pointless

>>7047765
Compared to what?

how can someone be so smart and yet so stupid

>>7047830
Who's smart? Who's stupid?

>>7047839
her parents mainly. read extensively enough that they have real associations with old defunct names, but not intelligent enough to realize that hotspur is a terrible name for a child. I mean what do people call her? it's like they didn't even think

>>7047844
She's been called "Hots" since childhood, which she doesn't object to at all.

>>7047753
Why does she want to climb Everest? Its not an aesthetic climb in any means, its not the most challenging or technical climb, and you won't even really be climbing, you'll be clipping in to fixed ropes and walking up to your camps that sherpas prepared for you with your tent ready and a little mint on your sleeping bag.

>>7047856
I don't know, she's climbed a lot of mountains and I guess she wants to do Everest.

Into Thin Air by Krakuer
Solo Faces by James Salter
I think Aleister Crowley had some mountain climbing stuff in his autobiography in addition to all the orgies and pagan sacrifices.

>>7047858
Tell her to do K2 instead. That's my personal goal as far as mountaineering goes.

>>7047859
Thanks, bro. Much appreciated.

>>7047860
She wants something she can do with me.

>>7047858
If she were really into mountaineering, she'd know that a lot of the community is moving away from Everest and is focusing on more technical and aesthetic summits. Pic very related.

>>7047877
>>7047867

>>7047753
Into Thin Air

Not that good but very relevant

>>7047879
And it has to be Everest, not Whitney, McKinley, Shasta, Rainier, etc. ? Well good luck, better start training now.

>>7047859
aleister actually let his whole camping expedition die because they shunned him just like watched them die while he was eating breakfast

>>7047753

You should marry this chick OP

Anybody heard about Mount Analogue by René Daumal? Is is any good?

>>7047753
>Hotspur
Wasn't that a man's name?

tfw no hardcore /out/ gf

>>7047926
*it

>>7047753

>has qt mountain climbing /lit/ gf
>doesn't even read or go climbing with her
>meanwhile I'm a kissless virgin who lives in the flat-as-a-board Midwest

Fuck this gay earth. Recently I've been fantasizing about lightly running the knife I use at work along my throat (I find I'm slowly inching my way to suicide), and I'd have done it by now if there weren't a bunch of people around who can see me, but you just brought me one step closer, OP.

>>7047925
dump*

>it costs $30,000-$80,000 per person to climb Everest
So are you paying or is her family?

>>7047956
Make some pretty red lines on your wrist, it'll make you laugh and you'll feel better for a while.

Why the fuck would anybody want to climb a mountain? Probably one of the most pointless things I can think off. If you want to climb to a peak snort a line of glorious gack.

>>7047844
>Anyone who reproduces
>Thinking

>>7048026
epic

>>7047956
Just last week I discovered the thrill of dangling by a belt in my closet with a chair barely in reach. I've done it about three times a night, and each time I push the chair a little bit further away.

My end goal is to get really fucked up on my painkillers and booze to the point where I don't even know what the fuck I'm doing (my two serious attempts at suicide have happened while I'm under the influence) and just kick that fucking chair down.

But good luck on your climb OP. I actually like the unique name.

The reason I wouldn't do it is at the end you have to climb in unbreathable air for 16 hours straight, on no sleep, in bitter cold. That place is literally called the death zone; the lack of air makes you desperately want to stop and fall asleep, but if you do you die.

>>7048069
Most people carry their own air at that point.

>>7047929
I don't know

>>7047982
Her family. She's well off, but she wants to become a writer. She's working a book about a soldier who develops a courtly love for a little girl, then goes to war and ends up a prisoner for years, comes back and she's grown up, got a kid, no husband, and is on drugs.

>>7047908
Whitney is a pleb hike for sight seers. It is beautiful, but children can and do complete it without training. Not a technical feat.

Good luck, OP.

>>7048183

"Hotspur not so hot as she and longtime boyfriend succumb to the freezing cold of Mt. Everest"

>>7048069
Damn that sounds like a really comfy way to go.

>>7047753
>I'm a globetrotting adventurer but don't know what book to read! XD
>+10000 KARMA
Go humblebrag on plebbit, if you please.

>>7048291
I'm only a gloabtrotter because she drags me around. I actually get horrible anxiety from flying and I prefer to just relax at home. She said she'd join the French Foreign Legion if they had something for women.

>>7047856
>>7047860
>>7047877
Everest detractors such as yourself (or selves) are severely retarded and need to just fuck off. Different people have different goals and different skill levels. It's simply not realistic to demand that everyone who wants to climb needs to join the top .0001% of climbers who summit K2 or cerro torre. Everest can be as challenging as you make it; there are no laws requiring you to carry bottled oxygen, hire sherpas, or even clip into the fixed ropes. Your obtuseness ("why would anyone even want to climb everest? there is nothing special about it hurr") is transparent. Your dogmatism ("REAL climbers summit k2, everest is for tourists!") is retarded. Your comments show that you are so far removed from the realities of any of these climbs that you shouldn't be voicing a strong opinion lest you want to look exceedingly dim, like you do now.

as for the original question, annapurna by herzog is the obvious option, but it hasn't been said, so i'll go ahead and put it out there

>my gf wants to take me to climb everest
sure she does
you probably don't even have a gf
and if you did have one that had climbed the prerequisite mountains she wouldn't want to take a faggot like you who posts troll threads on 4chan all day and is a burden to society

Some more books

High exposure -David Breashears
Everest - Reinhold Messner
Starlight and Storm - gaston rebuffat

Also highly recommend the film 'Touching the Void' , based on a book

Btw youre not gonna make it OP

>>7048431
this reminds me, everest by gordon korman is a good book I read when I was quite young. It's written for the harry potter demographic though so if you're out of high school you probably won't be interested.
But it was good.

>>7047753
What happens if your girl collapses descending. Do you leave her to die?

>>7047753
The Villain, about Don Whillans, is a really good book, certainly one of the best books about climbing I've read so far.

Can't be bothered with the drollery of Touching the Void and the other drivel.

>>7049617
You could check out Jirō Nitta’s works. He wrote lots of novels about mountain climbing, although only three of his novels—Death March on Mount Hakkōda, Alaskan Tale, and Phantom Immigrants—have been translated.

There’s also a manga inspired by one of his novels, Kokou no Hito, which has been scanlated.

>>7047853

thats pcool

>>7047844
I like it. I think it's a cool name

>>7047765
and everything else you can ever do ever isn't?

>>7047753
Mount Everest seems like a good mountain to climb your first time.

>>7048346
Humblebraging about having a girlfriend who is 2xtreme 4u is even worse. There are plenty of guys who would love to have a girlfriend like that, trying to play it off as an inconvenience just makes you look like a prick.

>>7047753
You're lucky, Anon. My girlfriend likes to watch ABC Family and read YA novels about dystopian societies and vampires.

>>7047753
This sounds like the plot to a John Green novel. Nice try, anon, nice try.