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Anonymous No.2844611 [Report] >>2844615 >>2844616 >>2844618 >>2844735 >>2844749 >>2844766
What's the highest mountain that could theoretically be climbed?
Would anyone succesfully climb 9thousanders or 10thousanders if such existed?
Anonymous No.2844615 [Report] >>2844653
>>2844611 (OP)
Without oxygen? Who knows.

With oxygen, probably anything. Spacesuits exist. Engineers could probably create something lighter for going to higher altitudes but not space.
Anonymous No.2844616 [Report]
>>2844611 (OP)
Like the absolute upper limits a human could survive in cold ass temperatures and thinnes of air? Isn't Everest already pushing it with how thin the air is at the summit.
Anonymous No.2844618 [Report] >>2844737 >>2844843
>>2844611 (OP)
I had a partner that seriously wanted to be the first one to summit Olympus Mons. If it exists, man will try to climb it, because.
Anonymous No.2844653 [Report] >>2844720
>>2844615
Using traditional oxygen bottles does have its limits. I think they make 8000m of altitude feel like 5000m. Which is still on the very top of what most people could endure.
Anonymous No.2844720 [Report] >>2844730 >>2844732
>>2844653
5000 meters is definitely not the very top of what most people could endure lol
Anonymous No.2844730 [Report]
>>2844720
You're miserable at that altitude.
Anonymous No.2844732 [Report]
>>2844720
Having been to 5000 meters, I can say that most people would pass out after 10 steps.
Anonymous No.2844735 [Report]
>>2844611 (OP)
Olympus Mons.
Anonymous No.2844737 [Report]
>>2844618
Olympus Mons is a meme. You could ride up it on a bicycle.
Anonymous No.2844749 [Report]
>>2844611 (OP)
i mean you could probably simulate whatever the fuck you want this is why nature is a meme and vr is the futoore
Anonymous No.2844766 [Report]
>>2844611 (OP)
You run into additional issues with peaks that tall, mostly being that they start to just up into the stratosphere and get hit with jet stream winds. Everest and other 8000m peaks are mainly climbed during two specific weather windows to avoid the monsoon.

Everest is also close to the Equator. A mountain like Denali closer to the poles has thinner air as compared to a 6km mtn near the Equator because air buldges at the center.

With how far the sport has moved, I think a highly trained Alpinist (possibly paragliding from the summit to avoid descent) with cached oxygen (4L per minute lowers the elevation to 10k lower which is common to climb without O2) could go all the way up to 10km on a non-technical mountain near the Equator in an area without a constant jet stream and large blue bird weather window. Anything else and it probably isn't possible without jumping onto it via a HAHO jump or something.
Anonymous No.2844843 [Report] >>2844845
>>2844618
Ben Bova wrote a story about this, Mount Olympus.
Anonymous No.2844845 [Report]
>>2844843
>big mountain
>I fly to mars and climb it
>the end

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