A real Kevin's Watch (finger of stone) in Pakistan

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A real Kevin's Watch (finger of stone) in Pakistan

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Great photo found here

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Tucked within the Karakoram Range of the Himalaya near the Pakistan-China border, the spires of the Trango Group protrude from the icy landscape like shark's teeth. Within this group stands Trango Tower, a sheer, nearly 3,000-foot (915-meter) dagger of granite. In 1996, a group of intrepid mountaineers became the first to successfully free-climb the tower's East Face. Here, expedition member Todd Skinner works to set up a hanging camp anchored to the tower some 19,500 feet (5,950 meters) above sea level.
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Wow, very interesting find! Hmmm, that would be a lot of steps to carve...
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Wait ... is Trango Tower the spike we see center left, or do we see a small portion of its face on the right, where the guy is hanging?
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Post by wayfriend »

Ah... Google image found me the whole thing. It is Kevin's Watch! Awesome find, doug!!!

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Great picture!
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Wow. 8O
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Damn! Imagine climbing that. (He's climbing, not hanging. :lol: ) Wow.

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Great picture, Doug. (Awesome avatar too. :-) )
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Hunh. It looks like a giant -- uh, never mind. :oops:
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aliantha wrote:Hunh. It looks like a giant -- uh, never mind. :oops:
No need for the oops, aliantha, but lets stop short of changing its name from Kevin's Watch to Kevin's ...
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... Kevin's little Kevin?
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Kevin's Staff of Love?

Cool seeing the different pitches for the climb of the sucka.
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Throw in "Kevin's illearth stones" and I think you have a winner.
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Post by matrixman »

Great find. But does this mean that if I get into an accident and fall unconscious, I'll wake up in Pakistan?
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matrixman wrote:Great find. But does this mean that if I get into an accident and fall unconscious, I'll wake up in Pakistan?
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That would likely be the only thing that would get me to go to Pakistan...
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