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This full-size steel and plastic duplicate version of Mount Everest would hopefully take some of the pressure off the environment of the real thing. Interior elevators would allow access for emergency evacuations and tourism bux. People could climb the outside for the full difficulty of the real thing.
Pay-to-win option available (everything from carrying your supplies for you to letting you ride to the top, climb out, and pretend), but the company won't lie for you and say you made it on your own.
The inside can contain a themed amusement park with rock climbing, roller coasters, rock candy, and all the other fun stuff. Zorb to the bottom, only $399.99!
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Might want to put it someplace where the weather on the
other side doesn't really matter. |
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Yes if you made it only the top section, it would be easier to get planning permission, and more convenient for car parking and souvenir shops. |
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From what I've read (living in the country of the 1st guy to
reach the summit...) the hardest part of climbing
Chomolangma is the altitude (& associated weather etc).
Plenty of other (lower, obvs...) mountains are more
technically difficult. Case in point: New Zealand's highest,
Aoraki/Mt Cook, is one, which is why many of those training
for Chomolangma came to NZ to practice.
So, a "fake Mt Everest" would be nice, but there are better
options. |
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If we just widened the bottom a bit, and upped the top part a bit, could we not support a Space-Elevator? |
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Y'know, for just a bit of extra revenue. |
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//living in the country of the 1st guy to reach the summit// |
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Possibly, neither him or Norgay ever replied to who was the
1st to step on the summit. It doesn't matter anyway,
Mallory & Irvine made it. Best evidence being, if you turn
back, you live, and they didn't. |
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//Plenty of other (lower, obvs...) mountains are more
technically difficult.// |
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Well, there's more challenging climbing on the church
tower where Mallory grew up, 5 miles from where I grew
up. There's a LOT more challenging climbing all over
Britain, europe etc. But switching around between glacier
work, rock work & ice work, all while being messed up by
hypoxia and the often overlooked effect of altitude
stripping the blood of CO2. It's CO2 that makes your body
breath, without a baseline level, you have to consciously
take every breath, and the pH buffering in your blood is
messed up. As far as I can tell, no climbing O2 systems have
a CO2 component, but I guess the masks help recycle a
little of the exhaled CO2. I'd also want a bit of non-CO2 pH
buffering on board, a little sodium HEPES or something
would help tremendously. |
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Just build the simulated trail and have the participants wear masks that gradually attenuate their oxygen intake. Cold and blowing snow conditions could be simulated by attendants using CO2 fire extinguishers. |
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//Just build the simulated trail// |
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Have them climb a smaller mountain, Mt Blanc or something,
on supplementary nitrogen. |
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