The Base Camp

WedaPashi

06:46

Morning All!

Aravona

07:10

morning

Rory Alsop

07:21

morning

that's the school run done - unfortunately the last few days have been too overcast to get any useful shots of Edinburgh from here :-(

WedaPashi

08:06

@Rory: Aww :-(

Aravona

@Rory hopefully the weather picks up!

There is a night time shot of my hometown on our website at the moment. Phone quality lol

Liam

08:29

Morning all

Blew my car tyre up last night, no spare

Stupid modern cars

Aravona

08:41

@Liam aww no good

Rory Alsop

09:37

@Liam pants - how'd that happen?

and how come no spare? Is it a run flat?

Liam

@RoryAlsop Clipped a ditch on a country road, stupid 4x4 taking up all the road

the holes about 2" long

Stupid car didn't come with a spare, just a jug of glue and a pump

no use on a 2" gash!

I think i'll be trawling the scrap yards looking for a spare this weekend so this doesn't happen again

Rory Alsop

gah!

WedaPashi

09:56

@Rory: Such a colorful pic! "D

Rory Alsop

@WedaPashi lol.

WedaPashi

@Rory @liam @Ara: I have dared ask this.

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Q: Is it safe to sleep for more than 16 hrs a day at altitudes above 6000m?

I am planning for a trek at the Advance Base Camp of Saser Kangri. The region is so deserted of people and expeditionists/mountaineers that there are usually two to three odd tents at the Base Camp of the mountain, and its a known fact that once you are beyond the Base Camp, yours is the only tea...

Likely to be a question which may not be received neatly by most of the ppl around

Rory Alsop

@WedaPashi I see nothing wrong with the question

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WedaPashi

@Rory: Thanks :-)

Rory Alsop

On any exploration/trek/camp sometimes you just need to hunker down. My father told me of having to stay in a tent for 2 weeks high on the Beardmore Glacier. He was bored, and concerned about supplies, but it does give your body a chance to rest

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WedaPashi

10:09

I thought some geek would come and say, "don't go, if you can't go up, bloody climb down and start again". And seriously I had had a friend from Nepal who did that :O "Just the weather being nuts, I can't climb up, so I'll go down, grab a beer, have a giggle with ppl down there and come up when things are good, You can take care of my tent and backpack in here :D" I was Amazed!

Rory Alsop

@WedaPashi some might - I'd suggest ignoring them, as downtime is sometimes enforced upon you

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Aravona

@Rory downtime can be essential anyway. You need reat days between any strenuous activity :)

WedaPashi

@Rory @ara: But is it safe to sleep? :D (I know I am being Lazy)

Aravona

@Weda if it's ok to exert yourself by climbing how is it unsafe to rest?

Rory Alsop

@WedaPashi If you are on your own, you should take certain precautions - eg if snow is heavy, an alarm set every hour so you can check you aren't getting buried or having your oxygen cut off is a good idea

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but as @Aravona says - it's not a risk over what you have been doing

Aravona

10:23

@Liam btw a picture taken at night on my z1 is now up on my blog :)

@Rory @Weda I'd add an answer but Rory may as well add to his answer that you should be ok to sleep at that altitude... So long as you are not going up solo your risks would be minimalised.

Rory Alsop

@Aravona will do

Aravona

@Rory :)

I haven't had a question or a good answer in forever, brain just won't think.

Liam

@Aravona I've forgotten the URL again...

Rory Alsop

@Liam goliveoutdoors.com

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(it's in @Aravona's profile)

Aravona

@Liam @Rory lol!

I'm off work next week so should be a busy period :)

WedaPashi

11:30

@Ara: This might well be a solo thing :-) And, I am damn excited about it being so!

Aravona

@Weda as I've told you before I never solo but that does look awesome :)

have you confirmed being in England yet?

Liam

11:49

and the winner is............................

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A: Our chat room name

I'll suggest The Base Camp :D

room topic changed to The Base Camp: I've got some small nuts that will only hold 8Kn [flapping-mice] [football-rants] [hair] [je-mappelle] [queen-of-tgo] [rory-equals-geek]

Base camp makes more sense....or else this is a fire, which is a bit weird...

Rory Alsop

@Liam lol - and base camp is well understood by all outdoors folks, whether or not they are real mountaineers (which I definitely am not)

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Aravona

@Liam @Rory @Weda nice! :)

WedaPashi

12:16

@Liam: Thanks :-)

Liam

12:35

so my company has just been bought by the emirates group....

erm....

not sure what to make of that

Might be time to polish my CV up

WedaPashi

@liam: Oh, thats bad.. Good luck with that!

Aravona

@Liam I'm sure it'll be fine...!

WedaPashi

* @Rory equals geek* .. seems like I have missed some fun in last couple of days. Time to scroll up and see :-)

Aravona

@Weda do you know if you'll be in England or not yet?

WedaPashi

@Ara: Its a 70-30 matter. 70% says I am gonna fly :-)

Aravona

12:47

@Weda cool :)

Benedikt Bauer

13:04

@Liam you beat me by ten seconds...

Liam

@BenediktBauer I think yours was right though!

@BenediktBauer I'm getting "freeing" and "Free climbing" mixed up

Benedikt Bauer

apparently ;-)

Liam

@BenediktBauer Aid climbing isn't exactly something I have a lot of experience of

:)

Benedikt Bauer

I was already struggling with giving you a -1

Liam

though it does mean the world is denied my:

No, falling == death == not a successful accent

Benedikt Bauer

13:08

me neither, but in my eraly climbing days I have read a lot about the beginnings of free climbing...

Liam

@BenediktBauer I've read a bit of andy Kirkpatrick

Benedikt Bauer

@Liam That's of course very very sad

Liam

That's his thing

room topic changed to The Base Camp: falling == death == not a successful accent [flapping-mice] [football-rants] [hair] [je-mappelle] [queen-of-tgo] [rory-equals-geek]

Not anymore

:)

Benedikt Bauer

ha!

Liam

Should I protect this question?

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Q: Can you boil an egg in dirty water?

I'm going on a one day hike, and I want to cook an egg whilst on it. I'd like to avoid carrying excess water, and the route goes past a couple of waterfalls and several streams, so there is no problem in acquiring extra water. However, I don't know whether there would be risks from bacteria in th...

water cooking

Seems to be getting into the realms of argument

@RoryAlsop?

Advise meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

barghest

14:22

@Liam I'm fairly new to the site, but I'd protect it... The recently made comments add nothing to the question or answer and confuse more than clarify.

Liam

@barghest Yeah sod it

It's a new power that I have yet to wield too

barghest

Well, as they say - With great power... ;-)
But I think in this case it is justified.

Liam

@barghest comes an increased sense of self importance?

barghest

@Liam That's one way to put it, yeah... That doesn't have to be a bad thing though.

Benedikt Bauer

@Liam yes, that as well...

Benedikt Bauer

14:52

@Liam Do you really not know what "redpoint" means or are you just pushing the question rate up ;-)

Liam

15:40

@BenediktBauer A little of both! :)

Benedikt Bauer

Hope you had a look at the wikipedia links meanwhile ;-)

Liam

@WedaPashi Bolt cutting isn't something that anyone should do. It's actually illegal in the UK

@BenediktBauer Yes, which actually made me ask the question as they were a little unclear. I actually thought repoint meant a something else too

Liam

16:03

Nasty

bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-22927695

Aravona

19:11

@Liam I read that...

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