The canine Reinhold Messner
March 9, 2019 11:43 AM Subscribe
According to Bierling, there have been a few cases of dogs at Everest Base Camp (17,600 feet) and some who’ve followed teams through the Khumbu Icefall up to Camp II (21,300 feet), but this is perhaps the highest-recorded elevation ever reached by a dog anywhere in the world.
After 18 hours of climbing, we walk into base camp. I feed Mera a huge dinner and we pass out. She has been above 20,000’ for ten of the last eleven days and had just climbed higher than any dog has ever climbed.
After 18 hours of climbing, we walk into base camp. I feed Mera a huge dinner and we pass out. She has been above 20,000’ for ten of the last eleven days and had just climbed higher than any dog has ever climbed.
Ha! There's a picture being taken and she stubbornly refuses to look at the camera. My doggo does that too.
Great dog story with a happy ending!
posted by Gray Duck at 12:02 PM on March 9, 2019 [2 favorites]
Great dog story with a happy ending!
posted by Gray Duck at 12:02 PM on March 9, 2019 [2 favorites]
Wow. That dog is amazing. I had a lecture ready about self-centered mountaineers bringing their dogs and needlessly risking their lives on some harebrained adventure scheme but this was not that.
posted by Big Al 8000 at 12:08 PM on March 9, 2019 [2 favorites]
posted by Big Al 8000 at 12:08 PM on March 9, 2019 [2 favorites]
(previously on MetaFilter regarding mounaineering dogs)
posted by mwhybark at 12:19 PM on March 9, 2019 [1 favorite]
posted by mwhybark at 12:19 PM on March 9, 2019 [1 favorite]
Dogs are amazing. I marvel at mine most days. We recently had some minus 30 weather with the windchill in Toronto and she gives not so much as a shiver and shows no interest in wanting to shorten our 10km daily morning walk.
Shakedown was a feral dog living on a northern Quebec First Nations reserve when she was rescued. She's survived two litters (to my knowledge), full-blown heartworm, and has a some sort of metal fragment lodged in her, presumably from being "shot" as a pup.
And, she loves being cuddled!
Best part of my life, no question.
posted by dobbs at 12:24 PM on March 9, 2019 [12 favorites]
Shakedown was a feral dog living on a northern Quebec First Nations reserve when she was rescued. She's survived two litters (to my knowledge), full-blown heartworm, and has a some sort of metal fragment lodged in her, presumably from being "shot" as a pup.
And, she loves being cuddled!
Best part of my life, no question.
posted by dobbs at 12:24 PM on March 9, 2019 [12 favorites]
Laika laughs from beyond.
posted by symbioid at 12:46 PM on March 9, 2019 [21 favorites]
posted by symbioid at 12:46 PM on March 9, 2019 [21 favorites]
They're all good death zone doggos, Brent.
posted by mandolin conspiracy at 12:51 PM on March 9, 2019 [11 favorites]
posted by mandolin conspiracy at 12:51 PM on March 9, 2019 [11 favorites]
Incredible, what a special dog!
posted by thegreatfleecircus at 1:47 PM on March 9, 2019
posted by thegreatfleecircus at 1:47 PM on March 9, 2019
That was an incredible story!
posted by soren_lorensen at 3:21 PM on March 9, 2019
posted by soren_lorensen at 3:21 PM on March 9, 2019
Nice story!
I'd rather think of Messner as "the human Baru." ;)
posted by carter at 3:30 PM on March 9, 2019
I'd rather think of Messner as "the human Baru." ;)
posted by carter at 3:30 PM on March 9, 2019
I like the other photos in the summit sequence where it's clear the reason she's not looking at the camera is that she's looking at the people, like a good dog.
posted by tavella at 4:21 PM on March 9, 2019 [1 favorite]
posted by tavella at 4:21 PM on March 9, 2019 [1 favorite]
Maybe that dog is a reincarnated sherpa.
posted by M-x shell at 7:26 PM on March 9, 2019 [2 favorites]
posted by M-x shell at 7:26 PM on March 9, 2019 [2 favorites]
There's a ton more pictures here.
Reading both articles, I just needed more pics! Yay!
posted by DyRE at 7:38 PM on March 9, 2019
Reading both articles, I just needed more pics! Yay!
posted by DyRE at 7:38 PM on March 9, 2019
That is the purest thing I’ve ever read. Such a good boy!
posted by photoslob at 7:41 PM on March 9, 2019
posted by photoslob at 7:41 PM on March 9, 2019
No story about dogs in Nepal can be complete without photos of Tihar.
posted by tavegyl at 10:43 PM on March 9, 2019 [2 favorites]
posted by tavegyl at 10:43 PM on March 9, 2019 [2 favorites]
For a brief second, I was all "The canine version of the guy on Ben Folds' fake ID?"
posted by Rev. Syung Myung Me at 1:20 AM on March 10, 2019 [1 favorite]
posted by Rev. Syung Myung Me at 1:20 AM on March 10, 2019 [1 favorite]
Take that, mountain goats!
posted by TedW at 7:11 AM on March 10, 2019 [2 favorites]
posted by TedW at 7:11 AM on March 10, 2019 [2 favorites]
Meanwhile, my daughter's cockapoo is refusing to climb the stairs in my house because there is a ladder on them (I have a light fixture to replace). It's not like the ladder completely blocks the stairs, as I can squeeze my 260 pounds past it. He just refuses to go past it and whines incessantly if we are on the other side.
posted by TedW at 7:14 AM on March 10, 2019 [3 favorites]
posted by TedW at 7:14 AM on March 10, 2019 [3 favorites]
In a related story this week:
A 2-year-old Alaskan dog named Dillon, who lives at a lodge used as an Iditarod checkpoint, broke his chain to join the mushers. He ran all the way to the next checkpoint: 30 miles away. A local pilot flew the dog back home.
posted by cheshyre at 6:51 AM on March 12, 2019 [3 favorites]
A 2-year-old Alaskan dog named Dillon, who lives at a lodge used as an Iditarod checkpoint, broke his chain to join the mushers. He ran all the way to the next checkpoint: 30 miles away. A local pilot flew the dog back home.
posted by cheshyre at 6:51 AM on March 12, 2019 [3 favorites]
« Older Normalization of Deviance | You cannot pet the dog in Dark Souls Newer »
This thread has been archived and is closed to new comments
posted by irrelephant at 11:46 AM on March 9, 2019