Extreme Mountaineering or Extreme BS? I think the latter...
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Ben Beckerich wrote: This guy will come and go, and the world will remain totally unchanged.Well yeah, did you think a passive aggressive climbing forum would produce anything more than whining and crying? |
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Allen Sanderson wrote:Enjoy the letter I wrote to Kevin Plank and Jeff Bowman the respective CEOs of Under Amour and Cocona. To: kplank@underarmour.com, jbowman@cocona.com, bowman@cocona.com Cc: info@cocona.com Dear Mr. Plank and Mr. Bowman, I recently learned of the "Mission 14" and the sponsorship of Under Armour and Cocona. After reading through Mr & Mrs. Cienski's website I have to say I am aghast. Quite simply it is nothing more than someone wanting to take two years off from working and go on a paid vacation. Paid for by your company and other suckers. Their desire to raise awareness of children in poverty while laudable is just smoke and mirrors to give legitimacy to their vacation. The self promotion comments from their website mission14.org are utter nonsense: "The significant challenges of the expedition will mirror the challenges that face families living in poverty across the world: in places like La Chureca, a garbage dump community in Nicaragua," Is Mr. Ciensk going to be walking to Asia in his bare feet, living under a rock while scrounging old food caches for something to eat? The answer is not only no but hell no. Mr. Ciensk will be surrounded by hundreds of porters and sherpas carrying his gear backed by a budget of over 5 million dollars. He is not even trying to do something bold but will be climbing the normal routes fixed with thousands of feet of rope while using O2 on every climb. His attempt is nothing but the some old song with a different verse. Instead of the seven summits it the highest fourteen. Newsflash - it has all been done before and in better style. Your company can choose to spend your marketing money how you wish, similarly I can choose to spend my money on products and companies who in turn are really make a difference. If your companies were really interested in helping families living in poverty I would suggest that sponsoring trips to Nicaragua where factory second garments are given to children while doing teaching service projects would help reduce poverty far more than the money being spent on Mr. Ciensk "expedition." In the mean time I am planning the first nude snow board circumnavigation of the south pole while singing "God Save the Queen" would Under Amour or Cocona be interested in sponsoring me? I will not need clothing just hard cold cash for my endeavor. Allen Sanderson Salt Lake CityDude, great letter. I really hope they respond. |
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There's character assassination and then there's character suicide. He's doing the later. |
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It'll be funny when Kilian Jornet causally jogs past him in running shorts on one of his ascents. |
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Ray Pinpillage wrote:Do you even Crossfit, Bro?Bro brah! Like totally doing like mad kipping pull-ups up Everest with my Nomics brah! |
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Finn the Human wrote:Late to the party, but yes, this whole endeavor blows. Über lame. Also, Ray:Ray's memes (particularly the one about weather and the one about traffic) made me laugh out loud at work the other day. I support the creation of More Extreme Mountaineering Entertainment (MEME). |
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Not to mention the irony of a taking supplements that cost more in a month than the annual grocery bill for a a family living in poverty in a third world country. Remind me again, how is this helping the poor children of Nicaragua and Baltimore? |
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... and Cienski has removed his video from YouTube. I can only hope that this is the beginning for the end of $5.6M being wasted to support Cienski's ego. |
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damn, and I was looking forward to a piggy-backed peak to peak effort to benefit all the cyclopsed bolivian uninsured crack-whore babies using english as their second language while drinking pond scum through land-mined brothel infested scientology churches, but only the ones with the starbucks outlets. |
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NC Rock Climber wrote:... and Cienski has removed his video from YouTube. I can only hope that this is the beginning for the end of $5.6M being wasted to support Cienski's ego.You're just jelly. http://youtu.be/KFj8vd9zCCM |
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LOL! |
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NC Rock Climber wrote:LOL! youtube.com/watch?v=YPDG5Gf…Dear lord. |
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This has all the makings of a Will Ferrell movie, a la Talladega Nights. |
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Travesty
Hey Cienski and UA. How's about dumping some cash towards The Juniper Fund This video from M-14 FB page and a quote from 3:45 "The fact remains; No other service industry in the world so frequently kills and maims it's employees with so little safety net, for the benefit of paying clients." vimeo.com/outside/sherpas |
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"... We lead climbed up, then toproped for a little while... Have you ever been rock climbing outdoors before?" At 18 years old I left college and enrolled in a 3-month outdoor leadership course in the Rocky Mountains of Canada." (from his site) So he's been climbing for 29 years though when he goes out cragging, its newsworthy? And on bolted rock he topropes? Hmmm. Also, according to his linkedin profile he has university education. Seems inconsistent. |
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dude is probably slammin' mountain might too. under armour + mountain might = helping needy children |
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NC Rock Climber wrote:LOL! youtube.com/watch?v=YPDG5Gf…hahaha good lord |
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The last time I laughed that hard at a YouTube vid must have been the goats making human sounds wave that swept the world last year. |
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Greatest troll ever? This has got to be some sort of joke. |
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J mac wrote:It'll be funny when Kilian Jornet causally jogs past him in running shorts on one of his ascents.lol this right here |