Craig 12372 Posted August 19 Share Posted August 19 https://twitter.com/defiantls/status/1957461233465987529?s=46&t=z2j8swpKHKggwsIUQJsACw 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wykikitoon 28533 Posted August 20 Share Posted August 20 https://www.instagram.com/reel/DMQC8fIyJUC/?igsh=MWt2Z2l0bGQ1ZGUyYw== Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monkeys Fist 50722 Posted August 20 Share Posted August 20 27 minutes ago, wykikitoon said: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DMQC8fIyJUC/?igsh=MWt2Z2l0bGQ1ZGUyYw== Bang out of order this mate. Doxxing Craig will not be tolerated. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wykikitoon 28533 Posted August 21 Share Posted August 21 Gets a hard on over the way. Get to Ukraine mate see how it's not how it is in Dambusters Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wykikitoon 28533 Posted August 21 Share Posted August 21 @Monkeys FistYou havem't just abseiled past my office window have you? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Howmanheyman 43923 Posted August 21 Share Posted August 21 1 minute ago, wykikitoon said: @Monkeys FistYou havem't just abseiled past my office window have you? No, he's currently digging a shallow grave in some woodland off a minor road in a remote location but not too far from a motorway. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex 42148 Posted August 21 Share Posted August 21 2 hours ago, wykikitoon said: Gets a hard on over the way. Get to Ukraine mate see how it's not how it is in Dambusters That’s the trouble with nostalgia. It’s just the good bits. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wykikitoon 28533 Posted August 21 Share Posted August 21 1 hour ago, Alex said: That’s the trouble with nostalgia. It’s just the good bits. You see a lot of boomer on stuff 'Ooo when it was good before the woke shit' Fuck me. Fuck off. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monkeys Fist 50722 Posted August 21 Share Posted August 21 5 hours ago, wykikitoon said: @Monkeys FistYou havem't just abseiled past my office window have you? Depends- if they stopped and washed it, they were “abseiling” If they went past in less than a second, they were “ hinfallen…ing” 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex 42148 Posted August 23 Share Posted August 23 I remember reading about this when I was a kid and their name popped up lately on social media somewhere. Is there a more crazy story of surviving a catastrophic event? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vesna_Vulović 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monkeys Fist 50722 Posted August 23 Share Posted August 23 26 minutes ago, Alex said: I remember reading about this when I was a kid and their name popped up lately on social media somewhere. Is there a more crazy story of surviving a catastrophic event? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vesna_Vulović Whilst the story of her survival is pretty amazing, it’s really down to pure luck her part. She was supposedly unconscious throughout and has no memory of it. I find stories like Joe Simpson’s , the lad from the Touching the Void , and Aron Rolston , who cut his own arm off to escape being jammed in a canyon,much more interesting as , while luck is still a big part of their survival, they make conscious decisions to stay alive and see them through with dogged determination 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ayatollah Hermione 17238 Posted August 23 Share Posted August 23 What about me getting through Steve Bruce and COVID fuelled by gin? 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monkeys Fist 50722 Posted August 23 Share Posted August 23 13 minutes ago, Ayatollah Hermione said: What about me getting through Steve Bruce and COVID fuelled by gin? Definitely comes under this… 25 minutes ago, Monkeys Fist said: make conscious decisions to stay alive and see them through with dogged determination 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobinRobin 14502 Posted August 23 Share Posted August 23 1 hour ago, Ayatollah Hermione said: What about me getting through Steve Bruce and COVID fuelled by gin? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craig 12372 Posted August 23 Share Posted August 23 6 hours ago, Alex said: I remember reading about this when I was a kid and their name popped up lately on social media somewhere. Is there a more crazy story of surviving a catastrophic event? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vesna_Vulović Fucking hell, I was out at a charity quiz last night and we were talking about great questions and someone brought this up! I’d never heard about it before then. 12 hours later and you’re posting about it. 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monkeys Fist 50722 Posted August 23 Share Posted August 23 Ooh, oooh! My favourite quiz “bastard” question is.… Who was the first English climber to stand in the summit of Everest, and when? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Howmanheyman 43923 Posted August 23 Share Posted August 23 My favourite quiz question is what is brown and sticky? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex 42148 Posted August 23 Share Posted August 23 9 minutes ago, Howmanheyman said: My favourite quiz question is what is brown and sticky? A stick? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christmas Tree 6693 Posted August 23 Share Posted August 23 2 hours ago, Monkeys Fist said: Ooh, oooh! My favourite quiz “bastard” question is.… Who was the first English climber to stand in the summit of Everest, and when? Did he carry a spade all the way up there! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craig 12372 Posted August 23 Share Posted August 23 7 hours ago, Monkeys Fist said: Ooh, oooh! My favourite quiz “bastard” question is.… Who was the first English climber to stand in the summit of Everest, and when? Can’t remember their names but it was in the 70s. A lot of people will answer Edmund Hillary who was part of a British expedition, but was a Kiwi. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monkeys Fist 50722 Posted August 24 Share Posted August 24 Aye 1975. Doug Scott and Dougal Haston. English and Sweaty. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gemmill 63171 Posted August 24 Share Posted August 24 2 minutes ago, Monkeys Fist said: English and Sweaty. Story of my last 10 days. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex 42148 Posted August 24 Share Posted August 24 I would have guessed Chris Bonington Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monkeys Fist 50722 Posted August 24 Share Posted August 24 7 minutes ago, Alex said: I would have guessed Chris Bonington He was leader of the 1975 expedition, didn’t get to the top himself until 1985, when he was 50. That was the record for oldest summiteer at the time, but some lad who was 55 took it the summer. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex 42148 Posted August 24 Share Posted August 24 8 minutes ago, Monkeys Fist said: He was leader of the 1975 expedition, didn’t get to the top himself until 1985, when he was 50. That was the record for oldest summiteer at the time, but some lad who was 55 took it the summer. I did know he led that expedition so that’s what I was thinking of. There were a load of documentaries about Everest on the BBC to mark (I think) the 50th anniversary of the first successful ascent. Part of the inspiration for Reinhold Messner, who along with another fella did the first summit of Everest without supplemental oxygen, was Bonington’s 1975 expedition. Messner felt that had been like a military operation and all the support the climbers had took something away from what he considered to be the true spirit of mountaineering. Messner later did a solo ascent of Everest (another first) and was also the first person to summit all fourteen 8,000 peaks without supplemental oxygen. I think him and Bonington later became friends. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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