Unironically love the exposition dumps in LotR so much, because they're NOT exposition dumps, they're scenes of intelligent and thoughtful people making sure to explain the situation to everyone else affected by it, to make sure everyone's on the same page and can give INFORMED assent to the course of action on which their own lives and the fate of the world depend!
Gandalf makes SURE Frodo understands what the Ring is, what the dangers are, and what's at stake. The Council of Elrond exists so that the Free Peoples can be GENUINELY and FULLY united in risking everything on the destruction of the Ring. Good guys in LotR don't make unilateral decisions or overstep their own bounds of authority!! And sometimes that means explaining a lot of stuff even though you, personally, DO know what needs to be done next!!
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I like how no matter how unwell one might be about a specific chosen Franklin Expedition member, the fact that you know nearly anything about him means someone else has been weirder about him.
No matter how weird you are about James Fitzhames, know Battersby wrote All That. Yes, I am A Certain Way about Chambers, but ask me not why I am, but John Wilson why he . Did that (Graves of Ice).
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I found this neat little bit in the first edition of “The Naval Service, or, Officer's Manual for Every Grade in his Majesty's Ships” where the author thanks both Sir John and James Ross for their contributions to the book. Sir John gave an essay on how to work a chronometer, and James Ross gave an essay on how to use a magnetic compass (he was, after all, one of two of the most leading experts in magnetic observations at the time, and we all know who the other guy was ;)
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actually the more i think of this book i just finished the more bonkers it is. the author spent maybe triple the time talking about bill stone and chevé than the krubera team even though chevé is BARELY in the top ten deepest caves and krubera was solidly number 1 until 2016. and yet even in the last part he spent more time talking about stone’s failed expeditions not even IN chevé but in the area trying to find a connecting cave than. THE ACTUAL KRUBERA TEAM THAT FOUND THE DEEPEST PART OF THAT CAVE…
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🇺🇸 Literature is an expedition into the truth.
- Franz Kafka
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Book Recommendation:
Ascension - Nicholas Binge
Genres: Science Fiction, Horror, Thriller, Mystery
Keywords: Adventure, Survival, Paranormal, Mountain Climbing, Scientific Expedition
Length: Short
Rating: 3.5/5
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The submersible’s disappearance has arguably been the biggest news story of the last 24 hours. That’s understandable in some ways. For one thing, it’s a mystery: No one knows where it is or what state its passengers are in. There is, moreover, a race against time, as the sub has enough oxygen to make it until early Thursday, according to the Coast Guard—if, that is, the passengers are even still alive. There is both the possibility of an improbably happy ending or of unspeakable tragedy—another element of a compelling news story. And then there’s everything about the janky sub and its rich passengers, who have risked their lives on what is essentially a novelty expedition. Without knowing their fate, it has the feeling of something out of a Ruben Östlund film: These people are so wealthy they can take dangerous chances in a vessel the size of a Honda Odyssey, just for thrills.
Coverage of the missing submersible unintentionally illustrates something even more tragic, however. On June 14, what was likely the second-deadliest refugee and migrant shipwreck on record occurred when a boat carrying as many as 800 migrants sank off the Greek coast. Greek authorities had tracked the vessel and early signs suggest the country’s coast guard was slow to act despite numerous warning signs. This is a huge news story, one that hits at both Europe’s ongoing refugee crisis and the callousness with which many European nations treat migrants who are desperately trying to reach their shores. Yet it has received scant attention in the American media—and the missing submersible story has dwarfed what coverage there has been.
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The only surviving member of the mountaineering expedition that first reached the summit of Mount Everest has said the world’s highest peak is too crowded and dirty, and the mountain is a god that needs to be respected.
Kanchha Sherpa, 91, was one of the 35 members of the team that helped the New Zealander Edmund Hillary and his Sherpa guide Tenzing Norgay to the top of the 8,849-metre (29,032ft) peak on 29 May 1953.
“It would be better for the mountain to reduce the number of climbers,” Kanchha said in an interview in Kathmandu on Saturday. “Right now, there is always a big crowd of people at the summit.”
Since the Hillary-Tenzing expedition, the peak has been climbed thousands of times, and it has become more crowded every year. During the spring climbing season in 2023, 667 climbers scaled the peak, bringing in thousands of support staff to the base camp between March and May.
There have been concerns about the number of people living on the mountain for months on end, but authorities have no plans to cut down on the number of permits they issue to climbers.
Rules require climbers to bring down their own rubbish, equipment and everything they carry to the mountain, or risk losing their deposit, but monitoring has not been effective.
“It is very dirty now. People throw tins and wrappings after eating food. Who is going to pick them up now?” Kanchha said. “Some climbers just dump their trash in the crevasse, which would be hidden at that time, but eventually it will flow down to base camp as the snow melts and carries them downward.”
For the Sherpa people, Everest is Qomolangma, or goddess mother of the world, and is revered by their community. They usually perform religious rituals before climbing the peak.
“They should not be dirtying the mountain. It is our biggest god and they should not be dirtying the gods,” Kanchha said. “Qomolangma is the biggest god for the Sherpas, but people smoke and eat meat and throw them on the mountain.”
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