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A real Kevin's Watch (finger of stone) in Pakistan
Posted: Thu Nov 13, 2008 3:13 pm
by dougkeenan
Great photo found
here
text reads:
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.
Posted: Thu Nov 13, 2008 3:22 pm
by AjK
Wow, very interesting find! Hmmm, that would be a lot of steps to carve...
Posted: Thu Nov 13, 2008 3:26 pm
by wayfriend
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?
Posted: Thu Nov 13, 2008 3:34 pm
by wayfriend
Ah... Google image found me the whole thing. It
is Kevin's Watch! Awesome find, doug!!!
Posted: Thu Nov 13, 2008 4:46 pm
by dlbpharmd
Great picture!
Posted: Thu Nov 13, 2008 4:58 pm
by Sorus
Wow.
Posted: Thu Nov 13, 2008 5:22 pm
by Avatar
Damn! Imagine climbing that. (He's climbing, not hanging.
) Wow.
--A
Posted: Thu Nov 13, 2008 6:09 pm
by aTOMiC
Great picture, Doug. (Awesome avatar too.
)
Posted: Thu Nov 13, 2008 6:09 pm
by aliantha
Hunh. It looks like a giant -- uh, never mind.
Posted: Thu Nov 13, 2008 6:54 pm
by AjK
aliantha wrote:Hunh. It looks like a giant -- uh, never mind.
No need for the oops, aliantha, but lets stop short of changing its name from Kevin's Watch to Kevin's ...
Posted: Thu Nov 13, 2008 7:08 pm
by wayfriend
... Kevin's little Kevin?
Posted: Thu Nov 13, 2008 7:26 pm
by Cagliostro
Kevin's Staff of Love?
Cool seeing the different pitches for the climb of the sucka.
Posted: Thu Nov 13, 2008 9:41 pm
by AjK
Throw in "Kevin's illearth stones" and I think you have a winner.
Posted: Fri Nov 14, 2008 7:33 pm
by matrixman
Great find. But does this mean that if I get into an accident and fall unconscious, I'll wake up in Pakistan?
Posted: Mon Nov 17, 2008 1:03 am
by AjK
matrixman wrote:Great find. But does this mean that if I get into an accident and fall unconscious, I'll wake up in Pakistan?
That would likely be the
only thing that would get me to go to Pakistan...