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sheppe
Sep 15, 2003, 5:12 PM
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Did anyone else see this on Discovery Showcase? Basically a team of five people (I can't remember names, but three of them are climbers) undertook the task of a simulated climb of Olympus Cons, the largest known mountain in the universe. Two of the three climbers are world-renowned, and the other two people are there to conduct geographical tests. Olympus Cons is 2 1/2 times taller than Everest, but they're climbing at 1/3 their usual body-weights. A challenging venture indeed. They're saying that an actual ascent of Mars could occur within the next couple of decades.
Anyhow, I only saw the first bit of it, but it looks interesting.
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vertical_reality
Sep 15, 2003, 5:27 PM
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They're going to need one hell of an oxygen cache.
Will they pay the air fare for the sherpas?
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sheppe
Sep 15, 2003, 5:48 PM
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LOL!
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holmeslovesguinness
Sep 15, 2003, 6:30 PM
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http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap970915.html
Actually, it's called Olympus Mons and it's a volocano - 24km high. That'd be a hell of a climb ;-)
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vertical_reality
Sep 15, 2003, 6:38 PM
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Actually from this link, http://volcano.und.nodak.edu/vwdocs/planet_volcano/mars/Shields/olympus_mons.html, it says that "Although the volcano is nearly 27 km high, it is over 20 times wider than it is tall. Thus, most of the volcano has a fairly gentle surface slope."
Maybe the climb wouldn't be that hard after all, and before you know it commercial expeditions will start.
Or maybe this will start a new trend, the Super 9, climbing the highest point on all of the planets! :lol:
I wonder who Dick Bass will pay to take him up this one?
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sheppe
Sep 16, 2003, 2:44 PM
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Whoops, my bad. It is Olympus Mons. Though, on Discovery they were saying that it's 21 Km high.
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sync
Sep 16, 2003, 3:51 PM
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In reply to: Maybe the climb wouldn't be that hard after all, and before you know it commercial expeditions will start.
Climbing the 6 km high cliff at its base will be fun, though. :D
But for some of the best Big Wall climbing in the Solar System, you need to go to Miranda, a moon of Uranus. There's a cliff there that is 10 km high:
http://www.astrosociety.org/.../07/images/cliff.gif
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scottcody
Sep 16, 2003, 4:30 PM
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In reply to: you need to go to Miranda, a moon of Uranus.
can you say brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
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