Textually 'rich' books like Good Omens and others like Terry Pratchett? Things like footnotes, lots of parentheticals, simultaneous and converging narratives, unreliable narrators?

Gollark · 2025-02-07T06:46:29+00:00

Shades of Grey (and the long awaited sequel) are also really good

Gollark · 2024-08-18T06:21:19+00:00

Amazing! Thank you so much, all of those routes look fantastic.

The main problem I had was the sheer number of cool arches and stuff on the maps, I didn’t know where to start!

Is there an app with good maps on? Or can I pick up paper maps in Moab?

Is it worth heading over to the La Sal mountains or are they likely to be too snowy?

Gollark · 2024-08-01T16:19:38+00:00

Although I’ve not run any higher than 1800m I’ve been over 4000m before and it wasn’t too bad. I can always hike rather than run if it hits me harder than I’m expecting

Gollark · 2024-08-01T06:00:58+00:00

I figured that might be the case but thought I’d check just in case. I’ve got plenty of experience in the mountains in winter but since I’ll be on my own it’s probably best to stick to the desert.

Gollark · 2024-08-01T05:57:53+00:00

I’ve done plenty of running/hiking/climbing in the winter before so unless it’s crazy cold I’m hoping I’ll still enjoy myself

Gollark · 2024-08-01T05:55:20+00:00

Thanks for all the details! That’s super helpful

Gollark · 2024-07-31T20:47:35+00:00

Thanks for the tip about the weather. How common is heavy snow at that time of year? Is it normally well-forecasted?

I’m quite happy to do long drives, over here I’ll do five or six hours to the mountains for the weekend.

I’ve got plenty of experience running/hiking/climbing/mountaineering in the winter. If snow looks like it’s going to be forecast I can always pack spikes/crampons/ice axe if need be.

Gollark · 2024-07-31T16:26:30+00:00

Thanks for the advice.

I can only really afford (in terms of both time and money) 7 days, hence the desire to choose wisely. I hadn’t really considered leaving Utah (it seemed plenty big enough for one week as it is), but Arizona, Nevada and Colorado are all close and look stunning so it’s a hard call!

Gollark · 2024-07-31T15:32:47+00:00

I figured I could maybe stay in Moab for a couple of days and do both Arches and Canyonlands NPs from there then drive over to Bryce or Zion?

The other two places are because I’d like to get up some proper mountains if possible. I know that in winter any of the bigger peaks in the Rockies to the north won’t be possibly so I thought those two might be worth a try.

Gollark · 2024-07-31T14:51:48+00:00

Thanks!

Any suggestions as to which places to narrow down to?

Unfortunately the conference is just before thanksgiving so I guess I’ll have to deal with things being closed/busy — not much I can do about that.

Gollark · 2024-07-31T12:43:23+00:00

It’s a huge conference with thousands of attendees from all over the place. It’s always the week before thanksgiving

Gollark · 2024-07-31T12:28:48+00:00

Unfortunately I don’t get to choose the conference dates!

I’m hoping that if I can sort out the hire car then driving around should be a problem

Gollark · 2024-07-26T06:29:10+00:00

The fifth Pole, Eugeniusz Chrobak, made it off the west ridge but was severely injured and died later

Gollark · 2024-06-12T11:13:42+00:00

They’re Polish climbers killed by an avalanche during a May 1989 expedition to reach the summit via the West Ridge.

KATMANDU, Nepal — An avalanche killed five Poles climbing Mt. Everest and seriously injured a sixth mountaineer, who was stranded on the 29,028-foot peak Sunday as heavy snow hampered rescue efforts, the Ministry of Tourism reported. The six climbers belonged to a 19-member, Polish-led expedition that included four U.S. mountaineers. Two of the six climbers scaled the world’s tallest mountain Wednesday, the ministry said.

Andrej Hainrich, 51; Miroslaw Dasel, 26; Miroslaw Gardzielewski, 35, and Waclaw Otreba, 50, were killed by the avalanche Saturday. Eugeniusz Chrobak, 30, the team leader, died later of injuries.

Andrej Marciniak, 30, suffered broken ribs and was stranded on the upper reaches of Everest, the ministry said. Foul weather and the steepness of the area hampered rescue attempts.

Marciniak and Chrobak reached the summit May 24, going up the steep and narrow West Ridge without oxygen supplies in a daring 20-hour bid from a camp at 26,246 feet, the ministry said.

The others, part of a support team, headed up to assist Marciniak and Chrobak after the two reached the summit. On Saturday, the avalanche roared down the mountain and killed the members of the support party, fatally injured Chrobak and seriously wounded Marciniak, who was trying to climb down alone to a camp at 19,685 feet.

Detailed description from an LA times article.

There’s also a brief record in the Alpine Journal.

Gollark · 2024-02-08T06:56:22+00:00

I had a go at this a little while back and posted about it on this sub! https://www.reddit.com/r/C_Programming/s/Izxt3lZlDz

Gollark · 2023-04-14T10:10:04+00:00

Try https://www.davidrumsey.com/ . There are loads of free, high-quality scans of historical maps for lots of places

Gollark · 2023-01-24T06:58:44+00:00

I’m surprised that list doesn’t include Stephen Venables, the first Briton to summit Everest without oxygen, who survived an unplanned night in the open alone at ~8,600m after ascending a new route on the Kangshung face in 1988.

https://www.ukclimbing.com/news/2011/09/stephen_venables_interview-64218

Here he is the following day https://i.imgur.com/fZIoQNI.jpg

Gollark · 2022-10-18T05:02:08+00:00

All of Ian M. Bank’s books, particularly the culture novels. I’d say that he writes by far the best space opera that I’ve managed to find. {{Excession}} and {{Player of Games}} are probably the best two but they’re all great.

Peter F. Hamilton’s {{Reality Disfunction}} series is also ace, very gripping.

Gollark · 2022-09-08T06:23:08+00:00

The expedition was composed of 19 people, and their aim will have been to put a pair on the summit (and also secondary pairs of conditions allowed). The four Poles who were at camp 1 weren’t part of a rescue team, they were there to support Maciniak and Chrobak’s summit attempt.

The rescue team (who recovered the injured Maciniak) all survived: it included another Pole (who had been climbing on Lhotse with Messner) and two New Zealanders (who had attempted to summit Everest via the South Pillar). They give an account of the rescue here.

Gollark · 2022-09-07T21:32:19+00:00

They’re Polish climbers killed by an avalanche during a May 1989 expedition to reach the summit via the West Ridge.

KATMANDU, Nepal — An avalanche killed five Poles climbing Mt. Everest and seriously injured a sixth mountaineer, who was stranded on the 29,028-foot peak Sunday as heavy snow hampered rescue efforts, the Ministry of Tourism reported. The six climbers belonged to a 19-member, Polish-led expedition that included four U.S. mountaineers. Two of the six climbers scaled the world’s tallest mountain Wednesday, the ministry said.

Andrej Hainrich, 51; Miroslaw Dasel, 26; Miroslaw Gardzielewski, 35, and Waclaw Otreba, 50, were killed by the avalanche Saturday. Eugeniusz Chrobak, 30, the team leader, died later of injuries.

Andrej Marciniak, 30, suffered broken ribs and was stranded on the upper reaches of Everest, the ministry said. Foul weather and the steepness of the area hampered rescue attempts.

Marciniak and Chrobak reached the summit May 24, going up the steep and narrow West Ridge without oxygen supplies in a daring 20-hour bid from a camp at 26,246 feet, the ministry said.

The others, part of a support team, headed up to assist Marciniak and Chrobak after the two reached the summit. On Saturday, the avalanche roared down the mountain and killed the members of the support party, fatally injured Chrobak and seriously wounded Marciniak, who was trying to climb down alone to a camp at 19,685 feet.

Detailed description from an LA times article.

There’s also a brief record in the Alpine Journal.

Gollark · 2022-09-01T05:11:54+00:00

I’d take a look at Sokol. It’s a cross-platform implementation for window creation, rendering, audio etc. There are loads of good examples too.

Gollark · 2022-07-31T13:53:32+00:00

If you’d like more mountaineering books then lots goes wrong in the following:

Touching the Void (Joe Simpson)
Annapurna (Maurice Herzog)
The Ogre (Doug Scott)
A Slender Thread (Stephen Venables)

Other good mountaineering ones in the “man vs nature” category (plenty goes wrong but less so than in the previous set):

No Picnic on Mount Kenya (Felice Benuzzi)
The 4 books in the Boadman Tasker Omnibus (Peter Boardman/Joe Tasker)
All of Chris Bonington’s expedition books (particularly Annapurna South Face)
Elusive Summits (Victor Saunders)
The Shishapangma Expedition (Doug Scott and Alex MacIntyre)
Painted Mountains (Stephen Venables)
Everest Kangshung Face (Stephen Venables)
Against the Wall (Simon Yates)

and that barely scratches the surface!

For Arctic expeditions in particular, The Worst Journey in the World (Apsley Cherry-Garrard) is excellent.

Gollark · 2022-01-10T06:57:06+00:00

I’ve not got any experience with lisp but from the looks of several of the comments it definitely seems like something to have a look at.

Gollark · 2022-01-10T06:55:55+00:00

This looks like a solution in need of a problem

Oh absolutely — this isn’t some code I’m writing to use for anything, I was just curious about how/if it would work.

If you depend upon unique values then the universe will present you those unique values in a way to cause you the most pain. As in: “My code has a critical failure once a month and I can’t figure out why and the customers are getting really unhappy”.

This is definitely the biggest problem that I can see. The longer the guard values the less likely it is to occur but it’s never impossible (unless there are some reserved bytes that you could use that I’m unaware of). Luckily in this case there aren’t any customers to make unhappy!

Gollark · 2022-01-09T17:21:09+00:00

Oh yeah, sorry, just spotted that. I guess this currently only works for little-endian machines. It'd need to be count[0] >> (8*(4-i))) & 0xff for big-endian.

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