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given the current climate this pride especially i feel i must mention that i love my trans friends, i stand with trans people in the fight against transphobic legislation and those who would enforce it, and this blog is not a good place for you to be if you do not vibe with that
You are an unreliable narrator because your coping mechanisms for your deep-seated trauma forbid you from acknowledging the reality of the situation. I am an unreliable narrator because I sincerely have no idea what the fuck is going on.
happy birthday, gilbert baker. (june 2, 1951 — march 31, 2017)
Blue hour really living up to its name. This is unedited.
but ykw at least i'm not on mount everest. at least i'm not paying tens of thousands of dollars to slowly suffocate in a 300-person line at the gates of hell. never in my life will i have to be steered in a hypoxic stupor through the maze of poop and corpses atop mount everest. on this earth a lot of horrible things can happen to you without your permission but there are a few that you have to opt into. you can just say no thanks! and be guaranteed never to have to be on mount everest. much to be grateful for actually
still not on mount everest this morning 😌 alhamdulillah
I'm sorry I couldn't help but nerd out. Oops. TL;DR: at the end. Caveat: not a climber, not an expert, don't know if 300 is accurate as a regular thing, BUT:
You can't summit Everest every day or even nearly. There are hundreds of days every year where you couldn't summit, and even if by some miracle you did, you'd find yourself on the highest point of the world and facing down a monsoon or a jet stream. (I don't know if there's a chance you'd ever face both? I don't pretend to understand all the ins and outs of the weather.)
When Krakauer's team were on the South Col in the '96 disaster, the winds were literally hurricane force and blowing their tents apart. So even in the right season and on days considered suitable for summiting, conditions can get deadly very fast. And the camp on the South Col is still in the death zone, to my understanding, so you're talking potentially deadly weather in a situation where without supplementing oxygen (arguably even with it?), your body is actively dying. I imagine the jet stream would just whisht you off that mountain. And camp four is still a ways from the summit. You're spending multiple days in a place which is passively or sometimes actively trying to kill you. Those are the conditions in which you're waiting for a day when you might reasonably reach the summit.
There's a window in late April to late May called Everest season for a reason; I think the actual summit window is way smaller than a month though, and then you have to pick a day and hope the weather is good to you. There's also a window in autumn but it's much shorter and most people who summit Everest (especially those who are inexperienced at those altitudes) will be doing so in mid to late May depending on the weather. And suitable weather is a moving target - even in ideal conditions, you're still in the death zone, you're still freezing and actively dying, there's still wind and the possibility a storm could blow up and kill you out of apparently nowhere. (Most of the people who die on Everest are still there, because it's expensive and dangerous to bring bodies down and risks even more lives. Some people do eventually get retrieved, but there have been bodies on Everest that are effectively landmarks that dozens or hundreds people have climbed past or even sheltered near. Apparently there's somewhere just below the summit known as Rainbow Valley because of the number of bodies in down jackets in many bright colours that are still lying there.)
Also note that some parts of the route are bottlenecks and can only be climbed safely one person or group at a time, so on both ascent and descent, there's a non-zero chance you are going to have to stand around in oxygen-poor freezing-to-death cold air while someone else comes up or down. I believe the ladders in the ice falls are generally taken one at a time, and I think the Hillary Step was a bit of a bottleneck before it was destroyed. I'm absolutely sure there are others I've forgotten or am not aware of.
So yes, you are absolutely correct that there aren't 300 people summiting Everest every day, and there are hundreds of days a year where no one is up there at all. There are, however, sometimes hundreds (or at least dozens) of people climbing Everest on the same day in mid to late May and that's when you get pictures like this:
There were apparently 320 people attempting to summit 😬
Basically, weather conditions x people paying to Do Everest™ = you have a lot of people attempting to summit in very short timeframes along the exact same route, and that's when you end up with these absurd traffic jams on a mountain that, let's be real, most of these people shouldn't be anywhere near.
(Again, not a climber, but to my understanding, the climbing on the North and South Col routes on Everest isn't the problem, it's not very technically "difficult", it's the extreme conditions that are the issue. Something that would be easy peasy at sea level can be rapidly deadly when you are hypoxic and exhausted and freezing, and also possibly have picked up something nasty before you even hit base camp because the conditions at some of the lower down bottlenecks are also actually appalling. And sometimes things that would even be survivable on Everest turn deadly, sometimes even because of these same crowds. Maybe on one day you could summit and make your way down to camp four without interruptions and grab another bottle of oxygen just fine, but if it's a different day and you're caught at the top of the Hillary step for an hour waiting for people to come up and you get that much colder and that much more oxygen deprived? And that day, you stumble or take a wrong step or are just too exhausted to keep going, and now you're dead, not because of the mountain directly, but because there were too many people, so you stayed at high altitude too long with not enough oxygen.)
TL;DR: No, there absolutely are not 300 people queueing to summit Sagarmatha every day, but unfortunately because of the narrow window to summit x a lot of people on the "easy" routes, there are also times when that is literally true.
A once-in-a-lifetime shot — the moon perfectly framed by a rainbow. Caught at just the right time. 🌈 🌕
Sourcing the photos as taken by Mark Ham on Instagram, according to one of the replies.
Happy Pride month to the moon
I love you being trans I love you trans women i love you gender exploration I love you self discovery
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[ID: two screenshots of a reddit post on r/offmychest by user awaythrowjessie, titled "My girlfriend made me realize I'd be happier as a woman". it reads as follows:
I am 33, born male, and have had major self image issues my entire life. I hated seeing myself in mirrors, pictures, you name it. I honestly thought it was kinda normal so I just accepted it.
Now about 3 weeks ago I was at my girlfriends house, we have been dating a little over a year now, and have plans to move in together soon. Now recently she has shaved her head to support of her friends with cancer (side note thenl treatments for that friend are going very well). She had since bought some wigs to wear while her hair grows back out. We were joking around as I have male pattern baldness, and when she went to the bathroom I jokingly threw a wig on and waited. She came our, saw me we laughed for a bit and she said "you know I think you'd make a pretty girl" we laughed some more but those words triggered something in me.
Cut to a few night's ago she asked why I've been acting weird lately and I just told her how i was feeling. She said "alright let's do this " and when I asked what she told me she was going to give me a bit of a makeover and put me in one of her dresses and if i liked it then good. I was nervous and asked what if I did like it would she still be attracted to me. She just responded with "Baby you know I'm bi, guy or girl you're still mine." Her words reassured me honestly i love her so much.
Anyways she finished the make up, fitted a wig on me perfectly and got me in a dress and even helped me put a bra on and stuff in a little so i could see what breasts would kinda look like on me. Now I expected to see myself in the mirror, laugh this off and move on right, but I didn't. She did an unbelievable job, like I looked like I had been born a woman, and when I saw myself in the mirror for the first time in my entire life, I liked what I saw. I probably stared at myself for a good 10 minutes before she finally asked me something. She asked what I wanted to be called. After a few seconds I said Jessie, I always like the name Jessie. She whispered in my ear "well Jessie, you look beautiful." And that was it, I knew this was who i wanted to be.
I'm nervous now though, my friends will accept it but my family are, well let's just say not very progressive. But this is what I want.
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there’s an update!!
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[ID: A screenshot of a Reddit post from r/offmychest by user awaythrowjessie, titled “I went out as Jessie for the first time and I was honestly surprised”. The screenshot reads: Hello everyone, this is an official follow up to my previous post that went viral and caught me off guard.
So me and my girlfriend, (Who has officially agreed to disclose her name lol) Emily, had gone shopping for me to get me outfits and the like. Earlier today i put on one of those outfits and officially faced the world as Jessie for the first time.
To say I was nervous would be an understatement. We went to our local mall and I was almost shaking, thankfully Emily calmed me down and said if anyone said anything mean to me she'd handle it, then playfully threw up her hands like a boxer lol. We stepped inside and started walking around going in stores and I noticed something, no one was staring. Like at all. I live in an area that still has issues with LGBTQ people so I was afraid of staring or aggressive people. But none of that happened. People greeted me, the store workers were kind and nobody looked at me like I was weird. I felt comfortable, and Emily even said she saw someone check me put, though i doubt that.
This was unbelievable to me and honestly I felt like myself. I feels nice that I can go out without worrying about Judging eyes.
To all the supporters of my previous post thank you, you have made me happy. Ill keep this account going to let you join me in my journey and once I'm confident enough I'll post up some pics of me and Emily too :) end ID]
I'd much rather people reblogged this version of the post than any other at this time btw
Honestly crying right now. Wherever Jessie and Emily are at this moment, I hope they're doing well.
This is so similar to my wife's story I'm smiling and crying at the same time. I love it every time someone realizes they can live as their authentic self.
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Holy shit!!!!!!! HUNGARY DID IT!!!!
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I feel like I need to share this because idk if Europeans are familiar with the presence of Aldi in the US, but at least especially in my area they’ve been growing a lot recently. Like Aldi bought out some local failing grocery chains where I live (Louisiana) and have opened Aldis in all these somewhat rural communities and small towns, which for the record I’m fine with
But as a result of this they are advertising a lot more in my area and also in many cases, the people in these areas have never been confronted with Aldi or any European grocery store. So the ads that Aldi is pushing out to its new US customer base feature a cowboy shopping at Aldi who is explaining to new Aldi customers how Aldi works. Like this cowboy is explaining you gotta put a quarter in the shopping cart and why there are very little name brands. A cowboy is how they want to reach their American customer base. They gave us a cowboy
Here he is, the Aldi Cowboy
Local restaurant having trouble with whores apparently.
Pokemon GO's new log-in screen for Forever Forward is a throwback to one of its oldest ones!
I’m not sure which one came first but I’m happy for their transition!
Good for her and for the family and for pedestrian safety :)
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Happy Pride Month
Ten years later, this bit still slaps. They made a great pun and realized they could be nice/inclusive with it too.
I'm in your house picking your shy, uptight man like a lock.
Like this, btw. ⬆️
@anarchafemme Congrats on being the funniest person on this post.