Mountains

[Champ]

2 minutes ago, Mook said:

There have been three separate rescues in two days.

After virtually a month with none. Still eejits for putting others at risk

[General Dryness]

7 hours ago, Mook said:

Picture taken of a (successful) rescue on Ben Nevis last night.

 

Hell of a view from your back bedroom window mate.

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Speaking of back bedroom window views, this was mine when I was growing up in the 1970s.

Mt Wellington in Hobart, Tasmania.

I lived a stone's throw from this cluster of homes; the short drive to the summit literally began at the end of my street, Davey St.

Errol Flynn lived in the house two doors up from me, around 110 years ago.

Charles Darwin climbed Mt Wellington in 1836 on his Beagle voyage.

Amundsen sent the telegram of his South Pole "conquest" from the Hobart General Post Office, around 15 minutes walk from the foreground of this photo.

 

 

 

 

[General Dryness]

Mooks is better, because it's not in Australia.

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1 minute ago, General Dryness said:

Mooks is better, because it's not in Australia.

 

*Mook's*

 

(NZ: proof that Tasmanians can swim)

 

[Jose Jones]

New Zealand does kick Australia’s arse when it comes to mountains. Also rugby. Pinot Noir I’m calling a draw.

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2 hours ago, Jose Jones said:

New Zealand does kick Australia’s arse when it comes to mountains. Also rugby. Pinot Noir I’m calling a draw.

I'm Tasmanian first, Croatian/Russian second and Australian a distant third.

 

I'd put some Tasmanian Pinots up there with Burgundy's better drops.

 

A few years back, there was an old world style Pinot from a tiny Huon Valley vineyard called Panorama.

 

They used to serve it in first-class on QANTAS.

 

[General Dryness]

3 hours ago, skaro said:

 

*Mook's*

 

(NZ: proof that Tasmanians can swim)

 

That'll be down to the webbed feet, won't it?

[easytoslip]

Not exactly exotic but I remember being on Formby beach and you could see Snowdonia it was so clear on that day it looked great. 

The foreman was Welsh and I think he was about to burst into song, it was a nice sight though. 

That's about the only one I've seen apart from flying over some like the Rockies, tried to take a picture out of the window which came out shit. 

 

[Red74]

 

[mattyq]

According to the blurb it's the first ever winter ascent of K2!!

[Bjornebye]

4 hours ago, skaro said:

I'm Tasmanian first, Croatian/Russian second and Australian a distant third.

 

I'd put some Tasmanian Pinots up there with Burgundy's better drops.

 

A few years back, there was an old world style Pinot from a tiny Huon Valley vineyard called Panorama.

 

They used to serve it in first-class on QANTAS.

 

I sat next to a half Aussie/half Croatian fella on a flight from Tokyo Narita to Heathrow about 15/16 years ago. We kept sneaking more beers when the stewardesses were asleep. I hope it was you. 

[VladimirIlyich]

5 hours ago, skaro said:

I'm Tasmanian first, Croatian/Russian second and Australian a distant third.

 

I'd put some Tasmanian Pinots up there with Burgundy's better drops.

 

A few years back, there was an old world style Pinot from a tiny Huon Valley vineyard called Panorama.

 

They used to serve it in first-class on QANTAS.

 

So you don't regard Tasmania as anything more than an outpost of Australian imperialism?

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6 hours ago, Bjornebye said:

I sat next to a half Aussie/half Croatian fella on a flight from Tokyo Narita to Heathrow about 15/16 years ago. We kept sneaking more beers when the stewardesses were asleep. I hope it was you. 

 

I would have been drinking whiskey down the back of the plane, taking advantage of the Serbian stewardess's reluctant hospitality.

 

 

 

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6 hours ago, VladimirIlyich said:

So you don't regard Tasmania as anything more than an outpost of Australian imperialism?

 

I regard it as a beautiful place, where I was born - the "outpost of Australian imperialism" bit was a bit lost on a kid of Eastern European descent growing up amongst post-WW11 Russian/Croatian/Polish/Ukrainian etc émigrés.

They didn't think much of Churchill, if that counts as downvoting imperialism?

We were just "the wogs".

And the "mainlanders" thought we had two heads.

 

Nowadays, I regard it as a beautiful place with some of the world's best food, wine etc

 

I left there when I was 14, unfortunately in some ways, to the big smoke of Melbourne.

 

[Bjornebye]

11 hours ago, skaro said:

 

I would have been drinking whiskey down the back of the plane, taking advantage of the Serbian stewardess's reluctant hospitality.

 

 

 

Funnily enough were were in the seats at the very back 

[Chairman Meow]

11 hours ago, skaro said:

 

I would have been drinking whiskey down the back of the plane, taking advantage of the Serbian stewardess's reluctant hospitality.

 

 

 

 

11 minutes ago, Bjornebye said:

Funnily enough were were in the seats at the very back 

 

I knew Stig used to be in the Navy. But I had no idea that after that he became a Stewardess and gave sexual favours in the back of planes.

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5 minutes ago, Chairman Meow said:

 

 

I knew Stig used to be in the Navy. But I had no idea that after that he became a Stewardess and gave sexual favours in the back of planes.

 

Yeah, and he certainly doesn't post with a Serbian accent.

 

[VladimirIlyich]

38 minutes ago, Chairman Meow said:

 

 

I knew Stig used to be in the Navy. But I had no idea that after that he became a Stewardess and gave sexual favours in the back of planes.

They are known as 'ships of the sky' so why change the habits of a lifetime?

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11 minutes ago, VladimirIlyich said:

They are known as 'ships of the sky' so why change the habits of a lifetime?

 

Has he been a camel as well perhaps?

 

 

[Bjornebye]

I don't see the problem. Any holes a goal. 

[TheBitch]

21 hours ago, mattyq said:

According to the blurb it's the first ever winter ascent of K2!!

Hell of an achievement because 30% of people trying summit die in “good” conditions. 

[mattyq]

1 hour ago, TheBitch said:

Hell of an achievement because 30% of people trying summit die in “good” conditions. 

Yup, read a book a while back on a failed ascent of K2, can't remember what it was called but it left a strong impression on me about what a terrifying mountain it is at the best of times

[Mook]

Been watching Himalaya with Michael Palin again, it's fucking brilliant. That bit where they drive up the Tibetan plateau & see Everest for the first time is mental, beats any CGI.

 

[Tony Moanero]

Snake Mountain