# This Man Is Going to Die **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 6, 2000, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-man-is-going-to-die/35990 "2000-10-06T18:14:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Sofa\_King](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/58956e/32.png) [@Sofa\_King](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sofa_King)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2000, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-man-is-going-to-die/35990/1 "2000-10-06T18:14:47Z")
[This guy, right here.](http://www.jokes.com/hnn/10_06_2000.reodd-story-bcoddeverestdc.html) ---
**Author:** ![Feynn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecb155/32.png) [@Feynn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Feynn)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2000, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-man-is-going-to-die/35990/2 "2000-10-06T18:17:07Z")
I bet the bookies are busy with this one. I’ll put twenty on the mountain. ---
**Author:** ![Inky\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/7feea3/32.png) [@Inky\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inky_1)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2000, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-man-is-going-to-die/35990/3 "2000-10-06T18:18:31Z")
All this trouble just to shoot a Mountain Dew commercial… ---
**Author:** ![Fiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e274bd/32.png) [@Fiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiver)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2000, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-man-is-going-to-die/35990/4 "2000-10-06T18:18:31Z")
Oh yeah, he’s toast. ---
**Author:** ![bafaa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e480ec/32.png) [@bafaa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bafaa)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2000, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-man-is-going-to-die/35990/5 "2000-10-06T18:21:52Z")
Who’s going to accept his Darwin Award? ---
**Author:** ![iampunha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/74df32/32.png) [@iampunha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iampunha)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2000, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-man-is-going-to-die/35990/6 "2000-10-06T18:27:04Z")
Could someone please reassure me that this is a joke? ---
**Author:** ![BornDodgy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e19b73/32.png) [@BornDodgy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BornDodgy)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2000, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-man-is-going-to-die/35990/7 "2000-10-06T18:30:34Z")
May he rest in peace… He wont have a problem with rigor mortis… he ll already be stiff while still breathing… ---
**Author:** ![Sofa\_King](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/58956e/32.png) [@Sofa\_King](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sofa_King)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2000, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-man-is-going-to-die/35990/8 "2000-10-06T18:36:19Z")
It’s not a joke, even though I found it at [jokes.com](http://jokes.com). [Yahoo](http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20001006/od/everest_dc_1.html) is carrying the same Reuters story. I wonder where I can catch the live Internet broadcast? I have a feeling it’s going to be very short. ---
**Author:** ![Stuffy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f17d59/32.png) [@Stuffy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stuffy)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2000, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-man-is-going-to-die/35990/9 "2000-10-06T18:49:55Z")
This will make a great replacement for that video ABC used to show on WWS ---
**Author:** ![Crunchy\_Frog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ebca7d/32.png) [@Crunchy\_Frog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crunchy_Frog)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2000, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-man-is-going-to-die/35990/10 "2000-10-06T18:53:06Z")
It’s times like these when I think about how mankind has triumphed against the adversities which nature presents. I think how men’s spirits overcome the harsh and extreme conditions they face. Then I think about what else is on TV and turn up the A/C a little more and wonder what the hell are some of these people thinking. ---
**Author:** ![Rosebud](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ea666f/32.png) [@Rosebud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rosebud)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2000, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-man-is-going-to-die/35990/11 "2000-10-06T18:57:00Z")
``At an altitude of 8,000 meters (26,000 feet) you encounter a lack of oxygen, changing snow conditions, very strong winds and extreme cold. Your ability to move is very limited. It should be really fun,’’ the skier, Davo Karnicar, said in the Times. Fun?! Let’s recap here: lack of oxygen… very strong winds… extreme cold… limited ability to move. Boy, Davo really knows how to have a good time. ---
**Author:** ![Zenster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/cdc98d/32.png) [@Zenster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zenster)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2000, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-man-is-going-to-die/35990/12 "2000-10-06T19:17:00Z")
I say he gets about three pole plants before he eats it big time. ---
**Author:** ![Ivar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/51bf81/32.png) [@Ivar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ivar)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2000, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-man-is-going-to-die/35990/13 "2000-10-06T19:30:48Z")
I’m actually just curious about the “custom made skis”. What’s the deal with them that they have to be specially made. ---
**Author:** ![Sledman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/839c29/32.png) [@Sledman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sledman)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2000, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-man-is-going-to-die/35990/14 "2000-10-06T20:08:14Z")
I’ll take Everest for the round 1 knockout please. Is there an over/under on the descent prior to his death? ---
**Author:** ![BunnyGirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/22d042/32.png) [@BunnyGirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BunnyGirl)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2000, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-man-is-going-to-die/35990/15 "2000-10-06T20:17:24Z")
Thank heavens! Another fool out of the gene pool. Let’s hope he wasn’t a breeder before this. ---
**Author:** ![panamajack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/47e85d/32.png) [@panamajack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panamajack)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2000, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-man-is-going-to-die/35990/16 "2000-10-06T20:31:49Z")
Hey, this isn’t just some crazy guy who though it might be fun to ski down Everest. He’s a crazy guy who’s been doing this sort of thing for over a decade, along with several other Slovenians(including, apparently, members of his family) and there’s probably plenty of other people in the world who are good enough skiers. Not as many as fearless, perhaps. The website, by the way is [http://everest.simobil.si/eng/default.shtml](http://everest.simobil.si/eng/default.shtml) There’s even a place to e-mail Davo Karnicar, but I’d guess you won’t get an answer very soon. They’re on the way to the top right now. The descent will be 5-7 a.m. in CEST (GMT+2), which puts it at some time late tonight if you’re in the US. ---
**Author:** ![Freyr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/freyr/32/5763_2.png) [@Freyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freyr)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2000, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-man-is-going-to-die/35990/17 "2000-10-06T20:38:54Z")
How many people have died getting to the top of Mt. Everest and now this guy’s going to die getting down it? 😕 Takes all types to make up the world, eh? ---
**Author:** ![Sofa\_King](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/58956e/32.png) [@Sofa\_King](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sofa_King)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2000, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-man-is-going-to-die/35990/18 "2000-10-06T20:53:13Z")
I hope someone knows how to nick a RealPlayer file, 'cause once this guy goes down, I bet it will be pulled. ---
**Author:** ![jovius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/91b2a8/32.png) [@jovius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jovius)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2000, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-man-is-going-to-die/35990/19 "2000-10-06T22:55:07Z")
He’ll make a great next era iced-specimen; comes with ski poles, ski clothes, skies, and missing 2 finger. The archaeologists of the future (say 2000 years from now) will have a blast with this one! Cheers, jovius ---
**Author:** ![lurkernomore](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d6d6ee/32.png) [@lurkernomore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lurkernomore)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2000, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-man-is-going-to-die/35990/20 "2000-10-06T23:28:48Z")
This guy better pray on the weather. You summit, and you see clouds on the next mountain, then later that day you find it was a storm and 10 people are already dead. No shields in the dead zone. Ski over the Hillary Steps, idiot. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-man-is-going-to-die/35990.md?page=2)