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Anonymous Thu 30 Jun 2016 01:54:41 No.804628 View View Reply Original Report

Which would be the hardest /out/ accomplishment?

>crossing the Drake Passage alone in a small boat
>climbing K2 as a noob climber
>hiking the Gobi Desert with only enough supplies to barter for goods with the locals (if you encounter any)

Anonymous

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Anonymous Thu 30 Jun 2016 02:01:28 No.804639 Report

Quoted By: >>804647 >>804686

This is a toughie. It's almost impossible to say honestly, as everyone has different talents and weaknesses.

For example, a paraplegic walking all the way up Mt. Wachusett is a way more heroic accomplishment than than an olympic athlete running a marathon in Death Valley.

I think circumventing the entire planet on foot and kayak would be ridickudonk. Would presumably take years.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 30 Jun 2016 02:05:18 No.804644 Report

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>>804628

It depends on how you define "hard"

K2 and the Gobi would both be almost certainly fatal. I don't think they let ANYONE up K2 anymore...

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 30 Jun 2016 02:06:15 No.804645 Report

Quoted By: >>804666

>>804628
I'm gonna go with K2. Experienced climbers die all the time, a noob has literally 0% of succeeding.

The other two, while incredibly difficult, just feel much more feasible.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 30 Jun 2016 02:08:28 No.804647 Report

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>>804639
How long would traveling the world take? I was thinking about traveling and trying the fishing jobs in lots of coastal countries, might as well check out other places as well.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 30 Jun 2016 02:10:51 No.804650 Report

Quoted By: >>804653 >>806327 >>806330

Hardest /out/ accomplishment is lifelong hermit status and living independentally off the land without a need for money. The lack of communication with people would drive anyone mad.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Thu 30 Jun 2016 02:12:13 No.804653 Report

Quoted By: >>804660

>>804650
>the lack of communication with people would drive anyone mad.

No

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 30 Jun 2016 02:18:33 No.804660 Report

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>>804653
He communicated some though; had a plane drop off supplies every month or two, sent and recieved mail, plus putting together a documentary the way he did must have given him a sense, at least, of connection to humanity.

Now Timothy Treadwell went full batshit bananas out there in just a few short months, even with more regular human interaction. I suppose it depends on your unique predisposition.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 30 Jun 2016 02:32:20 No.804666 Report

Quoted By: >>804668 >>804889

>>804645
This.
K2 has killed 1 of 4 who have attempted it. And those are highly experienced mountaineers. A "noob" has no chance.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 30 Jun 2016 02:35:21 No.804668 Report

Quoted By: >>804677 >>804717

>>804666

>he doesn't know that the Drake only became (somewhat) reliably passable in the 20th century with modern gigantic superships and that anything prior was a death sentence
>he doesn't know about the the Mongolian death worm

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 30 Jun 2016 02:45:15 No.804677 Report

Quoted By:

>>804668
https://youtu.be/rTkkklmeFOU

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 30 Jun 2016 02:45:48 No.804678 Report

Quoted By:

Mongolian death worm

I'll see your death worm and raise you a Yeti.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 30 Jun 2016 02:56:24 No.804686 Report

Quoted By: >>804692 >>804704 >>804709 >>804950

>>804639
Pretty sure it would be full on impossible to cross the Atlantic in a kayak

Anonymous

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Anonymous Thu 30 Jun 2016 03:00:36 No.804692 Report

Quoted By: >>804709

>>804686
oh definitely impossible. but i was almost sorta thinking it would have to be done way up by the pole during winter. Candada -> Greenland -> Ice Sheet -> Russia

It's a hypothetical, I'm making no assertions about the plausibility of this.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 30 Jun 2016 03:05:53 No.804704 Report

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>>804686
it's been done. it wasn't like it was a kayak you could buy at rei, but at least one guy did it

Anonymous

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Anonymous Thu 30 Jun 2016 03:09:31 No.804709 Report

Quoted By: >>805092 >>805577

>>804692
>>804686
It happens every couple of years actually.

I think the Pacific has been done too.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 30 Jun 2016 03:17:13 No.804717 Report

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>>804668
People regularly sail the Drake Passage in ~50 foot boats.

It's not inconceivable that someone could solo it in a 30 footer. It's much more likely than an experienced climber summiting K2.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 30 Jun 2016 09:56:50 No.804889 Report

Quoted By:

>>804666
K2 has one fatality for every 4 SUMMITS, so no. There are lot more people that have tried and turned back.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 30 Jun 2016 12:56:46 No.804928 Report

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>>804628
Damn you really gave it a thought this time. I'll think about it and come back to you with an answer

Anonymous

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Anonymous Thu 30 Jun 2016 13:49:55 No.804950 Report

Quoted By: >>804978 >>805587

>>804686

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 30 Jun 2016 15:16:19 No.804978 Report

Quoted By: >>805092

>>804950
that's no kayak friend, that's a sailboat

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 30 Jun 2016 17:28:06 No.805056 Report

Quoted By: >>805176

>only enough supplies to barter for goods with the locals

how much peanut butter are we talking here?

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 30 Jun 2016 18:05:42 No.805092 Report

Quoted By:

>>804978
and its smaller than >>804709

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 30 Jun 2016 20:18:37 No.805176 Report

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>>805056
As much as you can carry unaided in your pack

Anonymous

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Anonymous Fri 01 Jul 2016 13:49:18 No.805577 Report

Quoted By: >>806036

>>804709
Not an kayak

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 01 Jul 2016 14:23:59 No.805587 Report

Quoted By: >>806013

>>804950
nice boat name.
i wonder how it is to jerk off at night in that thing

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 02 Jul 2016 03:26:18 No.806013 Report

Quoted By:

>>805587
That's not even the smallest one he crossed the Atlantic in

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 02 Jul 2016 03:44:35 No.806028 Report

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Urbexing in Detroit without getting shot/stabbed.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Sat 02 Jul 2016 03:59:41 No.806036 Report

Quoted By: >>806275

>>805577

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 02 Jul 2016 12:46:27 No.806190 Report

Quoted By: >>806305 >>806333

Southpole expedition without modern military hardware.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 02 Jul 2016 15:39:23 No.806275 Report

Quoted By: >>806288

>>806036
Das a sailboats

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 02 Jul 2016 16:01:27 No.806288 Report

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>>806275
|t's a mostly stock 2 man Klepper with a sail kit.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Sat 02 Jul 2016 16:23:29 No.806305 Report

Quoted By:

>>806190
> Without a flamethrower

Ftfy

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 02 Jul 2016 17:12:38 No.806327 Report

Quoted By:

>>804650
You underestimate my power

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 02 Jul 2016 17:17:40 No.806330 Report

Quoted By: >>806353

>>804650
My dad was in a Soviet prison/gulag (he taught a forbidden subject in university) and 1 whole year of his imprisonment was in solitary, told me even the guards wouldn't talk to you or look at you.
He came out fine, although in his favor was his amazingly strong will and mind, still the smartest person I ever met and I met 2 Nobel winners.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 02 Jul 2016 17:18:46 No.806333 Report

Quoted By: >>806342

>>806190
ok, there's a lot of fine civilian hardware built for polar expeditions...

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 02 Jul 2016 17:29:22 No.806342 Report

Quoted By:

>>806333
Not anti polar expeditions though

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 02 Jul 2016 17:37:05 No.806353 Report

Quoted By: >>806359 >>806364

>>806330
are you f'oréal? that's fucked. what did he teach?

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 02 Jul 2016 17:43:13 No.806359 Report

Quoted By:

>>806353
Gender equality studies

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 02 Jul 2016 17:47:54 No.806364 Report

Quoted By: >>806373

>>806353
He taught History, the kind they didn't like, the real one.
He got 13 years in a gulag, served 7 and 1 of those were in solitary.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 02 Jul 2016 18:02:07 No.806373 Report

Quoted By: >>806388

>>806364
sssssooo how old was he in the goolagg? and after getting out he met ya mum and made you or before?

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 02 Jul 2016 18:26:02 No.806388 Report

Quoted By: >>806390

>>806373
I think he was around 24 to 27, he got out at 33 if I'm not mistaken.
met my mom long after, and I was made, when he was 60.
He died at 80 in 2010

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 02 Jul 2016 18:29:13 No.806390 Report

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>>806388
wow. sorry to hear that though anon. but i guess 80 is nothin' to complain about. i bet he had neat stories.

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