fascinations and abominations

[Reuser] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQJQapyHAQg&feature=related
[Reuser] In part five, the absolute revulsion of that mountain pro, while being completely, utterly polite delivers.
[Reuser] It’s a work of art.
[Reuser] “it’s delusional to say that they’re not responsible…”
[Reuser] -> badass <- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhYG-IgsRJ0
[Reuser] That motherfucker has balls of steel the size of Monfuckingtucky.
[Reuser] Also: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=piNRRg7WuG8&feature=related
[Reuser] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pete_Schoening
[Reuser] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art_Gilkey
[Reuser] Am I mountaingeeking again?
[Reuser] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Bonatti
[Reuser] Epic ascents are full of assholes.
[Reuser] South Face or “Polish Line” (extremely exposed and most dangerous). In 1986, Jerzy Kukuczka and Tadeusz Piotrowski summitted on this route. Reinhold Messner called it a suicidal route and no one has repeated their achievement. “The route is so  avalanche-prone, that no one else has ever considered a new attempt.”
[Reuser] HAHAHAHAHA!
[Reuser] When Messner calls you suicidal, you are dangerously insane.
[Reuser] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fritz_Wiessner
[Reuser] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerzy_Kukuczka
[Reuser] “Jerzy Kukuczka died attempting an alpine style climb of the unclimbed South Face of Lhotse in Nepal on 24 October 1989. Leading a pitch at an altitude of about 8,200 meters on a 6 mm second-hand rope he had picked up in a market in Kathmandu, the cord cut or snapped from a fall, plunging Kukuczka to his death.”
[Reuser] This is the man that Messner called suicidal.
[Reuser] Consider what the fucker _DID_ though.
[Reuser] Alpine style means no siege tactics, no base camps.
[Reuser] You and your pack and your partners.
[Reuser] And look at those routes and winter ascents.
[Reuser] From 79 to 89.
[Reuser] 10 years of beating the odds doing the worst climbs on the fucking planet.
[Reuser] NEW ROUTES!
[Reuser] IN WINTER!