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Spent 100's of hours studying the 1996 Everest disaster. Taking q's
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Date: April 19th, 2026 9:17 PM Author: brindle haunting theater corn cake (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5858541&forum_id=2ﾃ｢竄ï½���„1¤77PHPSESSID=3d8e678aec504db068978830e992758d#49828160) |
Date: April 19th, 2026 9:29 PM Author: Cracking milky gay wizard should I go to Appalachian Climbing School (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5858541&forum_id=2ﾃ｢竄ï½���„1¤77PHPSESSID=3d8e678aec504db068978830e992758d#49828202) |
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Date: April 19th, 2026 9:30 PM Author: brindle haunting theater corn cake search ur heart (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5858541&forum_id=2ﾃ｢竄ï½���„1¤77PHPSESSID=3d8e678aec504db068978830e992758d#49828205) |
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Date: April 19th, 2026 9:32 PM Author: Razzle-dazzle Public Bath How did you get to 100s? I watched the movie, a doc and read Into Thin Air in a week. What else did you learn in the extra 90+ hours?
My main take away was there’s no fucking way I’m climbing Everest. It’s just pure misery and you’re so fucked when you get to the top you can’t wait to go back down. |
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Date: April 19th, 2026 9:38 PM Author: brindle haunting theater corn cake if you're looking for additional materials you can study the books written by other climbers, several docs besides the PBS one, listen to interviews and podcasts, the argument between krakauer and tracy on youtube, etc. You can also study the history of the mountain, read into messner etc, and you've got to read and reread/rewatch everything multiple times. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5858541&forum_id=2ﾃ｢竄ï½���„1¤77PHPSESSID=3d8e678aec504db068978830e992758d#49828239) |
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Date: April 20th, 2026 9:01 AM Author: Razzle-dazzle Public Bath You did not answer my question at all. I am not looking for more. I am asking what else I would learn that I didn’t learn in 10 hours of study. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5858541&forum_id=2ﾃ｢竄ï½���„1¤77PHPSESSID=3d8e678aec504db068978830e992758d#49828902) |
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Date: April 20th, 2026 9:36 AM Author: brindle haunting theater corn cake No you asked how to get to 100s of hours (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5858541&forum_id=2ﾃ｢竄ï½���„1¤77PHPSESSID=3d8e678aec504db068978830e992758d#49828965) |
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Date: April 20th, 2026 2:45 PM Author: Razzle-dazzle Public Bath I had two questions. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5858541&forum_id=2ﾃ｢竄ï½���„1¤77PHPSESSID=3d8e678aec504db068978830e992758d#49829617) |
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Date: April 20th, 2026 2:51 PM Author: brindle haunting theater corn cake Don't talk to me like im some floosy LLM. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5858541&forum_id=2ﾃ｢竄ï½���„1¤77PHPSESSID=3d8e678aec504db068978830e992758d#49829630) |
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Date: April 19th, 2026 9:39 PM Author: Odious demanding useless brakes lmao didnt even know krakauer is jewish
every single time |
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Date: April 19th, 2026 9:44 PM Author: shivering fragrant crotch wtf holy shit. he's half! (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5858541&forum_id=2ﾃ｢竄ï½���„1¤77PHPSESSID=3d8e678aec504db068978830e992758d#49828258) |
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Date: April 19th, 2026 9:50 PM Author: brindle haunting theater corn cake Fun fact. "Mount Everest" is named after a man named whose name is pronounced "Eve-er-est." (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5858541&forum_id=2ﾃ｢竄ï½���„1¤77PHPSESSID=3d8e678aec504db068978830e992758d#49828288) |
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Date: April 19th, 2026 9:39 PM Author: balding parlour partner I read both krakauer's book and the MAF rebuttal book by boukreev. But it's been like 25 years.
Who are the heroes, villains? What moral lessons do you draw from it? What unique insights do you have? |
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Date: April 19th, 2026 9:47 PM Author: brindle haunting theater corn cake Lopsang is the villain, but he was likely paid by Pittman. The moral lesson is don't be a softie like Rob. I don't have anything unique to say really (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5858541&forum_id=2ﾃ｢竄ï½���„1¤77PHPSESSID=3d8e678aec504db068978830e992758d#49828275) |
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Date: April 19th, 2026 10:12 PM Author: balding parlour partner It really is crazy just how fucking dangerous high-altitude mountaineering is. The story for like everyone who's a professional climber (sherpa or honkey) who survived everest 1996 is "later died on [other mountain]." (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5858541&forum_id=2ﾃ｢竄ï½���„1¤77PHPSESSID=3d8e678aec504db068978830e992758d#49828347) |
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Date: April 19th, 2026 10:15 PM Author: shivering fragrant crotch cr
yet 1/2 of xo tough guys who played some college ball seem to genuinely think that they could easily summit everest; 1/2 of it is schtick, but 1/2 of it is genuinely retarded xo tough guys |
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Date: April 19th, 2026 10:19 PM Author: balding parlour partner Tbf, a good portion of the danger is clearly not avertable through enhanced skills or natural talent (and I'm including physiological tolerance for high-altitude exertion as "natural talent," even though HAPE is incredibly random and strikes super-experienced climbers). (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5858541&forum_id=2ﾃ｢竄ï½���„1¤77PHPSESSID=3d8e678aec504db068978830e992758d#49828360) |
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Date: April 19th, 2026 10:16 PM Author: brindle haunting theater corn cake yeah it's fucking nuts and another crazy part is the other major peaks like K2 and Annapurna, while essentially as tall, are significantly worse odds in terms of getting hit with an avalanche or falling the fuck off. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5858541&forum_id=2ﾃ｢竄ï½���„1¤77PHPSESSID=3d8e678aec504db068978830e992758d#49828355) |
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Date: April 19th, 2026 10:21 PM Author: balding parlour partner Yeah. As a kid I did NOLS and AAI and wanted to be a bigtime climber, but looking back now...
maybe Black people are right on this one. |
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Date: April 19th, 2026 10:25 PM Author: brindle haunting theater corn cake pretty baller man i'm just a dweeb (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5858541&forum_id=2ﾃ｢竄ï½���„1¤77PHPSESSID=3d8e678aec504db068978830e992758d#49828376) |
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Date: April 19th, 2026 10:25 PM Author: shivering fragrant crotch this is evan39-esque:
https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2022/05/21/1100363030/meet-the-cool-62-year-old-kenyan-on-first-all-black-team-to-summit-everest |
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Date: April 20th, 2026 9:02 AM Author: Razzle-dazzle Public Bath You spent hundreds of hours to learn this? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5858541&forum_id=2ﾃ｢竄ï½���„1¤77PHPSESSID=3d8e678aec504db068978830e992758d#49828905) |
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Date: April 20th, 2026 9:39 AM Author: brindle haunting theater corn cake Why are you MAF at my encyclopedic knowledge of everest (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5858541&forum_id=2ﾃ｢竄ï½���„1¤77PHPSESSID=3d8e678aec504db068978830e992758d#49828969) |
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Date: April 20th, 2026 10:19 PM Author: Vibrant Clown (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5858541&forum_id=2ﾃ｢竄ï½���„1¤77PHPSESSID=3d8e678aec504db068978830e992758d#49830893) |
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Date: April 19th, 2026 9:41 PM Author: cocky chocolate bawdyhouse round eye I read into the climb many years. Realized at that point that Americans like Krakauer are scum. They always hang out at the periphery of misery and looking to benefit. He actually made millions from his own book where he basically described that he's a faggot. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5858541&forum_id=2ﾃ｢竄ï½���„1¤77PHPSESSID=3d8e678aec504db068978830e992758d#49828248) |
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Date: April 19th, 2026 9:42 PM Author: balding parlour partner We can say [CONTENT AUTO REDACTED] here. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5858541&forum_id=2ﾃ｢竄ï½���„1¤77PHPSESSID=3d8e678aec504db068978830e992758d#49828251) |
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Date: April 19th, 2026 9:52 PM Author: brindle haunting theater corn cake he's a failed outdoorsmin who became a writer, what's there to be mad about (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5858541&forum_id=2ﾃ｢竄ï½���„1¤77PHPSESSID=3d8e678aec504db068978830e992758d#49828295) |
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Date: April 20th, 2026 9:02 AM Author: Razzle-dazzle Public Bath He just happened to be on that expedition (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5858541&forum_id=2ﾃ｢竄ï½���„1¤77PHPSESSID=3d8e678aec504db068978830e992758d#49828906) |
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Date: April 19th, 2026 9:42 PM Author: exhilarant cyan voyeur Should I watch Dallas Buyers Club? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5858541&forum_id=2ﾃ｢竄ï½���„1¤77PHPSESSID=3d8e678aec504db068978830e992758d#49828253) |
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Date: April 19th, 2026 9:50 PM Author: brindle haunting theater corn cake search ur big gay heart (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5858541&forum_id=2ﾃ｢竄ï½���„1¤77PHPSESSID=3d8e678aec504db068978830e992758d#49828289) |
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Date: April 19th, 2026 9:45 PM Author: shivering fragrant crotch it's amazing that krakauer happened to be there for this -- and live to tell the tale. talk about god running the world. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5858541&forum_id=2ﾃ｢竄ï½���„1¤77PHPSESSID=3d8e678aec504db068978830e992758d#49828265) |
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Date: April 19th, 2026 9:48 PM Author: brindle haunting theater corn cake some theories say that his presence, and the presence of Pittman which was a reaction the Krakauer's last minute team change, was the cause of the event. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5858541&forum_id=2ﾃ｢竄ï½���„1¤77PHPSESSID=3d8e678aec504db068978830e992758d#49828281) |
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Date: April 19th, 2026 9:54 PM Author: shivering fragrant crotch explain pls (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5858541&forum_id=2ﾃ｢竄ï½���„1¤77PHPSESSID=3d8e678aec504db068978830e992758d#49828297) |
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Date: April 19th, 2026 10:05 PM Author: brindle haunting theater corn cake The theory is the presence of the journalist from Outside magazine (Krakauer) caused more than the usual competition between Adventure Consultants (Rob's team) and Mountain Madness (Scott's team). Krakuer's magazine was paying Rob with ad space ($55k worth; they only paid $10k in cash), and those ads would include things like the % of clients that summitted. Krakuer was also writing about the commercialization of Everest in general, so there was motivation to get as many climbers to the top as possible. But whether that influenced the late summit push (after the fixed rope delay of 2+ hours), the decision to ignore the pre-arranged turn-around time, and Rob's decision to escort Doug, isn't certain.
Maybe more directly, Pittman -- the weakest climber who the lead sherpa had to essentially drag to the top with a rope, causing him not to place the aforementioned fixed ropes and delaying both teams -- was added to Mountain Madness's team at the last minute as their journalist after Krakauer and Outside left the MM team for the AC team.
So taken together the presence of journalists, especially JK, can reasonably be seen to have changed the motivations and dynamics of the teams, and may have been a contributing cause to the tragedy, rather than a coincidence. |
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Date: April 19th, 2026 10:15 PM Author: balding parlour partner IIRC, almost every third-party account (not krakauer or boukreev, although you could include boukreev in this) says that krakauer was bizarrely hard on sandy pittman, who no one else seems to think played any kind of noteworthily deleterious role. She was short-roped for an hour tops, and she was a paying client; she's probably a stronger climber than krakauer, but krakauer benefitted from summitting way before her. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5858541&forum_id=2ﾃ｢竄ï½���„1¤77PHPSESSID=3d8e678aec504db068978830e992758d#49828352) |
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Date: April 19th, 2026 10:20 PM Author: brindle haunting theater corn cake then you have to explain why Lopsang didn't set the fixed ropes above the south summit... (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5858541&forum_id=2ﾃ｢竄ï½���„1¤77PHPSESSID=3d8e678aec504db068978830e992758d#49828364) |
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Date: April 19th, 2026 9:45 PM Author: Odious demanding useless brakes "Rowell criticized Krakauer's account, citing numerous inconsistencies in his narrative, and observed that Krakauer had been asleep in his tent while Boukreev was rescuing other climbers. Rowell argued that not only were Boukreev's actions heroic but his judgment was also prescient: “[Boukreev] foresaw problems with clients nearing camp, noted five other guides on the peak [Everest], and positioned himself to be rested and hydrated enough to respond to an emergency. His heroism was not a fluke."[5]"
lmfao at this literal kike sleeping in his tent while the heroic chad is out there saving lives, and then publishing a book where he jewishly sneers at and nitpicks the heroic dude
fucking amazing |
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Date: April 19th, 2026 9:49 PM Author: brindle haunting theater corn cake Boukreev could and did literally climb mount everest without oxygen and it was his professional responsibility to guide and save people. Some people say his selfishness in not using oxygen caused more harm than he later salvaged. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5858541&forum_id=2ﾃ｢竄ï½���„1¤77PHPSESSID=3d8e678aec504db068978830e992758d#49828285) |
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Date: April 19th, 2026 10:00 PM Author: Odious demanding useless brakes wtf does him not using oxygen have to do with other people dying (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5858541&forum_id=2ﾃ｢竄ï½���„1¤77PHPSESSID=3d8e678aec504db068978830e992758d#49828312) |
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Date: April 19th, 2026 10:10 PM Author: balding parlour partner Even if capable of operating without bottled oxygen, you can operate better with it. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5858541&forum_id=2ﾃ｢竄ï½���„1¤77PHPSESSID=3d8e678aec504db068978830e992758d#49828345) |
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Date: April 19th, 2026 10:10 PM Author: brindle haunting theater corn cake Some people say that without supplemental O's, Boukreev had to descend in front of the clients at more rapid pace, rather than assist them in the descent. Had he been in the mix with the clients, he may have saved more lives. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5858541&forum_id=2ﾃ｢竄ï½���„1¤77PHPSESSID=3d8e678aec504db068978830e992758d#49828346) |
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Date: April 19th, 2026 10:15 PM Author: Odious demanding useless brakes but it says he deliberately went down ahead of the clients, by himself, so he could get help
sounds like the "supplemental oxygen" complaint is just literal jews trying to unjustly pin blame on the only chad who was actually saving lives instead of jewishly sitting around "taking notes" so he could jewishly publish a book criticizing everyone else |
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Date: April 19th, 2026 10:21 PM Author: brindle haunting theater corn cake yeah and the corroborating witness is dead. im not saying he didn't save people, but the idea that a guide is better off at camp than guiding clients is a bit retarded (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5858541&forum_id=2ﾃ｢竄ï½���„1¤77PHPSESSID=3d8e678aec504db068978830e992758d#49828367) |
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Date: April 19th, 2026 10:24 PM Author: Odious demanding useless brakes maybe if the clients didn't want to die they shouldn't have gone up to the top of mount everest
did anyone ever think of that? |
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Date: April 19th, 2026 10:32 PM Author: brindle haunting theater corn cake not that exactly no (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5858541&forum_id=2ﾃ｢竄ï½���„1¤77PHPSESSID=3d8e678aec504db068978830e992758d#49828387) |
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Date: April 19th, 2026 10:26 PM Author: balding parlour partner My (very rusty) recollection after reading both books is that krakauer is indeed a disingenuous little piece of shit, but his criticisms of boukreev are probably correct. Literally not a single person, dead or alive, doubted that he was the strongest climber on the mountain, but his abilities as a guide specifically were questionable. Boukreev says that Fischer's displeasure with his performance was customer-service/BizDev-based, but he's fucking dead so who's to know. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5858541&forum_id=2ﾃ｢竄ï½���„1¤77PHPSESSID=3d8e678aec504db068978830e992758d#49828378) |
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Date: April 19th, 2026 10:33 PM Author: brindle haunting theater corn cake yeah i think he was probably selfish and scott had to work around that fact so they came up with compromises that didn't really make sense for a guide but he wanted him up there (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5858541&forum_id=2ﾃ｢竄ï½���„1¤77PHPSESSID=3d8e678aec504db068978830e992758d#49828389) |
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Date: April 19th, 2026 10:22 PM Author: glittery school cafeteria trust fund Nah he didn't go down for help, he went down before any of the issues began. He went back out to help later after hearing people were in trouble.
I don't think Bookreev did anything particularly wrong though. He was against using oxygen because he thought it was dangerous to rely on it. You're extra fucked if you run out of it etc |
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Date: April 19th, 2026 10:35 PM Author: brindle haunting theater corn cake yeah and i mean that kinda makes sense, but also not really. if you have oxygen you are better off than without. you might run out of oxygen and you're fucked immediately, which is not the case without it, but you can definitely stay up longer with it. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5858541&forum_id=2ﾃ｢竄ï½���„1¤77PHPSESSID=3d8e678aec504db068978830e992758d#49828393) |
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Date: April 19th, 2026 10:35 PM Author: Sadistic ruddy liquid oxygen How hard is climbing Everest really? Wasn’t one of the people on the expedition a mousy small Japanese lady?
Can you just shell out a bunch of money and be spoon fed the climb. Can the typical American male train for a couple months then be good to go |
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Date: April 19th, 2026 10:36 PM Author: brindle haunting theater corn cake the mousy japanese lady had summited the tallest mountains on the 6 other continents before the everest expedition in 1996. in general yes you are mostly spoon fed with fixed ropes, ladders, etc, but its still difficult and you have to be in pretty good shape, and you also generally have to test your body in high altitude on other mountains first. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5858541&forum_id=2ﾃ｢竄ï½���„1¤77PHPSESSID=3d8e678aec504db068978830e992758d#49828395) |
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Date: April 20th, 2026 9:18 AM Author: Sadistic ruddy liquid oxygen she was 90lbs, prob irresponsible regardless of experience when you consider they have to carry a bunch of shit
Namba died from exhaustion and exposure. Jon Krakauer's book, Into Thin Air, describes the anguish of Neal Beidleman, who felt guilty that he was unable to do anything more to save Namba. Boukreev's book, The Climb, expressed profound regret at her lonely death, saying that she was just a little 90-pound woman and that someone should have dragged her back to camp so she could at least die among her companions. |
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Date: April 20th, 2026 2:37 PM Author: brindle haunting theater corn cake You can say that about all the clients. Doug sucked. Beck wasn't great. I dont get singling her out. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5858541&forum_id=2ﾃ｢竄ï½���„1¤77PHPSESSID=3d8e678aec504db068978830e992758d#49829601) |
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Date: April 20th, 2026 5:41 PM Author: Sadistic ruddy liquid oxygen at least they were men and could, with more training, have gotten to a higher level of competency.
its like the military, to what degree are these 90lb women LARPing as serious climbers just because they had sherpas pushing them the entire way |
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Date: April 20th, 2026 6:31 PM Author: brindle haunting theater corn cake This is retarded (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5858541&forum_id=2ﾃ｢竄ï½���„1¤77PHPSESSID=3d8e678aec504db068978830e992758d#49830247) |
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Date: April 20th, 2026 11:15 PM Author: Sadistic ruddy liquid oxygen (Guy who thinks its good women are allowed in the infantry) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5858541&forum_id=2ﾃ｢竄ï½���„1¤77PHPSESSID=3d8e678aec504db068978830e992758d#49831053) |
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Date: April 19th, 2026 10:51 PM Author: Talented self-absorbed tanning salon turdskin After watching that stuff does it make you want to climb anything or no never?
I thought this TV documentary on Reinhold Messner was one of the 180 things Werner Herzog directed. Lots of great footage. Also to the point above - all the sherpas and mountaineers died - one of the big moments is when Reinhold talks about his brother dying
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dark_Glow_of_the_Mountains (German: Gasherbrum – Der leuchtende Berg) |
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Date: April 19th, 2026 10:55 PM Author: brindle haunting theater corn cake Messner makes me want to climb something more than the everest stuff or honnold or anyone else. His whole point is he wanted to discover himself and it just so happens everest helped him do that. I dont have any desire to climb for the accomplishment, not that I could either way (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5858541&forum_id=2ﾃ｢竄ï½���„1¤77PHPSESSID=3d8e678aec504db068978830e992758d#49828440) |
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Date: April 20th, 2026 9:11 AM Author: Talented self-absorbed tanning salon turdskin ! Well put, ty. And I feel that too (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5858541&forum_id=2ﾃ｢竄ï½���„1¤77PHPSESSID=3d8e678aec504db068978830e992758d#49828926) |
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Date: April 19th, 2026 10:59 PM Author: Citrine Mental Disorder imagine being near the top of Everest and suddenly an earthquake hits you and then the avalanches come https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015_Mount_Everest_avalanches |
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Date: April 19th, 2026 11:00 PM Author: brindle haunting theater corn cake Dying at base camp would suck (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5858541&forum_id=2ﾃ｢竄ï½���„1¤77PHPSESSID=3d8e678aec504db068978830e992758d#49828454) |
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Date: April 19th, 2026 11:01 PM Author: Citrine Mental Disorder Yes I just can't imagine the fear you would experience |
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Date: April 19th, 2026 11:03 PM Author: brindle haunting theater corn cake I've looked into dying in an avalanche and it definitely sucks but goes fast at the end (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5858541&forum_id=2ﾃ｢竄ï½���„1¤77PHPSESSID=3d8e678aec504db068978830e992758d#49828466) |
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Date: April 20th, 2026 2:47 PM Author: Razzle-dazzle Public Bath Asphyxiation is a terrible way to go, until suddenly it’s a fine way to die. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5858541&forum_id=2ﾃ｢竄ï½���„1¤77PHPSESSID=3d8e678aec504db068978830e992758d#49829619) |
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Date: April 20th, 2026 2:49 PM Author: brindle haunting theater corn cake Yeah exactly. Chronic oxygen deprivation and hypothermia seem more chill (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5858541&forum_id=2ﾃ｢竄ï½���„1¤77PHPSESSID=3d8e678aec504db068978830e992758d#49829625) |
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Date: April 19th, 2026 11:13 PM Author: opaque comical orchestra pit Is it safer today? It's it (the safety, the experience) even worse than 30 years ago given the huge crowds waiting in line to summit? That aspect of it looks miserable.
I've thought about going for one of the relatively easier very high altitude climbs line Cho Oyu. |
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Date: April 20th, 2026 9:15 AM Author: Talented self-absorbed tanning salon turdskin In-house at a corp, I worked with a dude who told everyone that his hobby was mountain climbing and he would pay up to do all those. His desktop background was climbing pics. Lean wiry guy, seemed pretty good shape, maybe mid 50s. Anyway, even after doing a lot of other tall mountains, he had some kind of altitude sickness climbing Everest, turned blue, maybe had a collapsed lung, got airlifted down, and had to stay in a Nepalese hospital for a month. Was already lean and he lost maybe 25% of his bodyweight. He was out of work for a few months - and when he came back, he was like yeah OK I'm done with climbing now (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5858541&forum_id=2ﾃ｢竄ï½���„1¤77PHPSESSID=3d8e678aec504db068978830e992758d#49828934) |
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Date: April 20th, 2026 9:23 AM Author: Citrine Mental Disorder (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5858541&forum_id=2ﾃ｢竄ï½���„1¤77PHPSESSID=3d8e678aec504db068978830e992758d#49828943) |
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Date: April 20th, 2026 2:46 PM Author: Razzle-dazzle Public Bath Reading into thin air really convinced me that I was never going to climb Everest. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5858541&forum_id=2ﾃ｢竄ï½���„1¤77PHPSESSID=3d8e678aec504db068978830e992758d#49829618) |
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Date: April 20th, 2026 8:37 PM Author: brindle haunting theater corn cake (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5858541&forum_id=2ﾃ｢竄ï½���„1¤77PHPSESSID=3d8e678aec504db068978830e992758d#49830637) |
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Date: April 20th, 2026 5:55 PM Author: Racy poppy lodge sex offender 180 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5858541&forum_id=2ﾃ｢竄ï½���„1¤77PHPSESSID=3d8e678aec504db068978830e992758d#49830161) |
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Date: April 20th, 2026 8:25 PM Author: Talented self-absorbed tanning salon turdskin wonderful post-moniker synergy. yeah this dude wore 3 piece suits to the office, was a very smooth older man, and would manage to drop in conversation "oh yes, i'm going back to nepal next month for another mountain climb." great shtick, but he lived it (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5858541&forum_id=2ﾃ｢竄ï½���„1¤77PHPSESSID=3d8e678aec504db068978830e992758d#49830598) |
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Date: April 20th, 2026 8:37 PM Author: brindle haunting theater corn cake (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5858541&forum_id=2ﾃ｢竄ï½���„1¤77PHPSESSID=3d8e678aec504db068978830e992758d#49830638) |
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Date: April 20th, 2026 9:29 AM Author: Sadistic ruddy liquid oxygen Thoughts on Mike Tracy trashing Krakauer?
https://jonkrakauer.medium.com/the-youtuber-obsessed-with-trashing-my-book-chapter-two-8dc163beaba1 |
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Date: April 20th, 2026 9:37 AM Author: brindle haunting theater corn cake Tracy is literally a shitttigator lmao (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5858541&forum_id=2ﾃ｢竄ï½���„1¤77PHPSESSID=3d8e678aec504db068978830e992758d#49828966) |
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Date: April 20th, 2026 2:29 PM Author: balding parlour partner The guy has a weird hate-infatuation with krakauer IIRC. Only ever reports from the very specific anti-krakauer perspective. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5858541&forum_id=2ﾃ｢竄ï½���„1¤77PHPSESSID=3d8e678aec504db068978830e992758d#49829592) |
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Date: April 20th, 2026 2:39 PM Author: brindle haunting theater corn cake If you listen to him for more than 2 minutes you agree with krakauer that he has the invective and derision of a divorce attorney (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5858541&forum_id=2ﾃ｢竄ï½���„1¤77PHPSESSID=3d8e678aec504db068978830e992758d#49829605) |
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Date: April 20th, 2026 6:38 PM Author: balding parlour partner (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5858541&forum_id=2ﾃ｢竄ï½���„1¤77PHPSESSID=3d8e678aec504db068978830e992758d#49830266) |
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Date: April 20th, 2026 8:56 PM Author: Talented self-absorbed tanning salon turdskin Scott Fischer and Rob Hall are both gorgeous men (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5858541&forum_id=2ﾃ｢竄ï½���„1¤77PHPSESSID=3d8e678aec504db068978830e992758d#49830685) |
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Date: April 20th, 2026 8:58 PM Author: brindle haunting theater corn cake https://images.mubicdn.net/images/cast_member/151819/cache-554903-1591694059/image-w856.jpg
https://himalayantrekking.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Rob-Hall-Founder-of-Adventure-Consultants.webp |
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Date: April 20th, 2026 11:16 PM Author: Talented self-absorbed tanning salon turdskin tyty
here are 2 of my favorite clips from gasherbrum
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HtXwLGLcFrY&t=662s
and
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HtXwLGLcFrY&t=1010s |
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Date: April 21st, 2026 8:38 PM Author: brindle haunting theater corn cake 180 cr friend 180 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5858541&forum_id=2ﾃ｢竄ï½���„1¤77PHPSESSID=3d8e678aec504db068978830e992758d#49833105) |
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Date: April 21st, 2026 8:49 PM Author: Talented self-absorbed tanning salon turdskin (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5858541&forum_id=2ﾃ｢竄ï½���„1¤77PHPSESSID=3d8e678aec504db068978830e992758d#49833134) |
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Date: April 20th, 2026 3:18 PM Author: thriller confused stain are there bars on Mount Everest like at ski resorts? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5858541&forum_id=2ﾃ｢竄ï½���„1¤77PHPSESSID=3d8e678aec504db068978830e992758d#49829717) |
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Date: April 20th, 2026 4:53 PM Author: brindle haunting theater corn cake Not on the mountain but in the villages nearby (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5858541&forum_id=2ﾃ｢竄ï½���„1¤77PHPSESSID=3d8e678aec504db068978830e992758d#49830011) |
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Date: April 20th, 2026 3:37 PM Author: know-it-all beady-eyed space Lmao this takes 7 to 9 weeks to do? I always thought this was like some 4 hour tourist trap like the nyc marathon lmao. I would never do this (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5858541&forum_id=2ﾃ｢竄ï½���„1¤77PHPSESSID=3d8e678aec504db068978830e992758d#49829821) |
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Date: April 20th, 2026 4:47 PM Author: brindle haunting theater corn cake Yes you have to progressively acclimatize and end up climbing the equivalent of the height of the mountain twice given multiple ascents and descents between camps. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5858541&forum_id=2ﾃ｢竄ï½���„1¤77PHPSESSID=3d8e678aec504db068978830e992758d#49829996) |
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Date: April 20th, 2026 5:44 PM Author: Odious demanding useless brakes lmao what total flame (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5858541&forum_id=2ﾃ｢竄ï½���„1¤77PHPSESSID=3d8e678aec504db068978830e992758d#49830145) |
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Date: April 20th, 2026 6:39 PM Author: brindle haunting theater corn cake the peak is the height that some commercial airlines fly at (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5858541&forum_id=2ﾃ｢竄ï½���„1¤77PHPSESSID=3d8e678aec504db068978830e992758d#49830267) |
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Date: April 20th, 2026 6:40 PM Author: Odious demanding useless brakes i thought that planes all avoid the himalayas so things won't Go Wrong (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5858541&forum_id=2ﾃ｢竄ï½���„1¤77PHPSESSID=3d8e678aec504db068978830e992758d#49830272) |
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Date: April 20th, 2026 6:42 PM Author: brindle haunting theater corn cake the peak of everest is 30,000 ft (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5858541&forum_id=2ﾃ｢竄ï½���„1¤77PHPSESSID=3d8e678aec504db068978830e992758d#49830277) |
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Date: April 21st, 2026 8:34 AM Author: Razzle-dazzle Public Bath What’s your LSAT score? Obviously planes avoid things that are literally in their way. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5858541&forum_id=2ﾃ｢竄ï½���„1¤77PHPSESSID=3d8e678aec504db068978830e992758d#49831510) |
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Date: April 20th, 2026 4:48 PM Author: dead laughsome stock car Same wtf... thought it was like a day (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5858541&forum_id=2ﾃ｢竄ï½���„1¤77PHPSESSID=3d8e678aec504db068978830e992758d#49829998) |
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Date: April 20th, 2026 10:11 PM Author: brindle haunting theater corn cake there's a guy working on remote acclimatization technology (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5858541&forum_id=2ﾃ｢竄ï½���„1¤77PHPSESSID=3d8e678aec504db068978830e992758d#49830874) |
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Date: April 20th, 2026 10:18 PM Author: shivering fragrant crotch https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5858541&mc=88&forum_id=2#49828351 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5858541&forum_id=2ﾃ｢竄ï½���„1¤77PHPSESSID=3d8e678aec504db068978830e992758d#49830892) |
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Date: April 21st, 2026 8:34 AM Author: thriller confused stain lol wtf fr fr I thought it took like 2 or 3 days to climb, not 2 months. |
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Date: April 21st, 2026 8:39 AM Author: Cracking milky gay wizard Everest is flame. You fly or drive over halfway to the top.
On the Tibet (North) side, you can drive via jeep to North Base Camp, which sits around 16,900 to 17,100 feet (5,200m) above sea level. On the Nepal (South) side, you typically fly into Lukla and trek for several days to Base Camp, which is at roughly 17,598 feet (5,364m). |
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Date: April 21st, 2026 8:40 AM Author: thriller confused stain Why can't a helicopter just drop someone off at the summit? Seems a lot safer and chill imo (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5858541&forum_id=2ﾃ｢竄ï½���„1¤77PHPSESSID=3d8e678aec504db068978830e992758d#49831518) |
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Date: April 21st, 2026 9:11 AM Author: brindle haunting theater corn cake Helicopters can only go as high as approximately the ice fall just above base camp, because above that the air is too thin for the rotor to work (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5858541&forum_id=2ﾃ｢竄ï½���„1¤77PHPSESSID=3d8e678aec504db068978830e992758d#49831585) |
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Date: April 21st, 2026 9:12 AM Author: brindle haunting theater corn cake Yes the Everest climb is not the longest climb you can do. Denali is a taller climb from base to peak. But everest is the tallest peak above sea level and the thinnest air.
Its also not the closest point on earth to space. Thats a peak in Ecuador, which is closer to space due to the bulge of the earth at the equator. |
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Date: April 21st, 2026 9:15 AM Author: shivering fragrant crotch Kili is the most prominent peak in the world I think. There’s nothing else around it. Looks alpha as fuck. Everest is surrounded by other big mountains and doesn’t look so impressive.
I submitted |
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Date: April 21st, 2026 9:23 AM Author: thriller confused stain have you ever been to Everest? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5858541&forum_id=2ﾃ｢竄ï½���„1¤77PHPSESSID=3d8e678aec504db068978830e992758d#49831613) |
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Date: April 21st, 2026 9:36 AM Author: shivering fragrant crotch nope. been to KTM only in nepal. would like to do the EBC trek someday, but wife has no interest in doing a milti-day hike (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5858541&forum_id=2ﾃ｢竄ï½���„1¤77PHPSESSID=3d8e678aec504db068978830e992758d#49831645) |
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Date: April 21st, 2026 9:51 AM Author: thriller confused stain dat too much walkin! (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5858541&forum_id=2ﾃ｢竄ï½���„1¤77PHPSESSID=3d8e678aec504db068978830e992758d#49831684) |
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Date: April 21st, 2026 10:03 AM Author: shivering fragrant crotch she'd love multiple 1 day hikes if we could stay in decent hotels. she's against tents or dorm-style accommodations. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5858541&forum_id=2ﾃ｢竄ï½���„1¤77PHPSESSID=3d8e678aec504db068978830e992758d#49831710) |
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Date: April 21st, 2026 9:23 AM Author: brindle haunting theater corn cake Yeah I think that's right (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5858541&forum_id=2ﾃ｢竄ï½���„1¤77PHPSESSID=3d8e678aec504db068978830e992758d#49831616) |
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Date: April 21st, 2026 9:13 AM Author: shivering fragrant crotch Dumb post. The second half is 99.99% of the effort. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5858541&forum_id=2ﾃ｢竄ï½���„1¤77PHPSESSID=3d8e678aec504db068978830e992758d#49831590) |
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Date: April 21st, 2026 9:27 AM Author: Cracking milky gay wizard wow ty pumo (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5858541&forum_id=2ﾃ｢竄ï½���„1¤77PHPSESSID=3d8e678aec504db068978830e992758d#49831621) |
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Date: April 21st, 2026 9:29 AM Author: thriller confused stain lol DBG (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5858541&forum_id=2ﾃ｢竄ï½���„1¤77PHPSESSID=3d8e678aec504db068978830e992758d#49831626) |
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Date: April 21st, 2026 3:26 PM Author: know-it-all beady-eyed space I’ve done it 3 times. You’re wrong. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5858541&forum_id=2ﾃ｢竄ï½���„1¤77PHPSESSID=3d8e678aec504db068978830e992758d#49832327) |
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Date: July 13th, 2026 7:12 PM Author: brindle haunting theater corn cake (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5858541&forum_id=2ﾃ｢竄ï½���„1¤77PHPSESSID=3d8e678aec504db068978830e992758d#49997450) |
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Date: July 13th, 2026 8:21 PM Author: Vibrant Clown (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5858541&forum_id=2ﾃ｢竄ï½���„1¤77PHPSESSID=3d8e678aec504db068978830e992758d#49997633) |