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[Federer91 2,793]

Give it a few years and it will be gone like the Emo era. 

[Monzanator 4,499]

Yeah, musical trends change every 10-12 years once people listening to it become adults and don't care about music so much anymore (since real life problems become more important).

[Federer91 2,793]

Today is a sad day here, as our prolific mountain climber Atanas Skatov died, while attempting to climb the deadliest mountain in the world K2.   

 

Up until last month it was the only mountain never concurred in the winter, when 9 Nepalese climbers finally did it. Atanas had a target to concur it already from last year. It would have been his 11th Eight-thousander, as he had 4 left, before accomplishing the Himalayan Crown, which no Bulgarian has ever done.

 

He had already climbed - Everest (8848 m), Kangchenjunga (8586 m), Lhotse (8516 m), Makalu (8485 m), Cho Oyu (8201 m), 

                         Dhaulagiri (8167 m), Manaslu (8163 m), Annapurna (8091 m), Gasherbrum I (8080 m), Gasherbrum II (8034 m).

 

The 4 that were left were K2 (8611 m), Nanga Parbat (8126 m), Broad Peak (8051 m) and Shishapangma (8027 m)

 

While returning to a base camp at around 7400 m, after an unsuccessful attempt, he fell, while exchanging ropes. It is reported that had fallen 2000 m in the abyss, as that is where his body was found...

 

 

 

It is just 2.5 years, after the death of our other prolific climber Boyan Petrov. He too was going for the Himalayan Crown. He too concurred 10 peaks and found his death on the 11th, just like Atanas. 

 

In 2018 Boyan Petrov attempted Shishapangma in a solo mission and without a satellite phone. He disappears soon after, which leads to one of the most largest rescue missions ever. In addition to the men on the trail, the Chinese use helicopters for 2 weeks, but the mission encounters many problems with bad weather.  His body was never found to this day..   

[Dnl 691]

It’s really off topic, but today is the anniversary for me , joined to you wonderful people exactly one year ago 

so thank you guys for everything and for many years to come 

[Olympian1010 7,971]

This is just too funny not to share.

 

[Monzanator 4,499]

Meh, social media filters are old news

[hckošice 14,822]

our television has published viewer numbers for the last two years. it would be interesting to see the numbers in different countries.

 

The top number and most viewed program of RTVS was from the 3rd period of the Slovakia-Canada match at the Ice Hockey world championships 2019 with 1.8 million viewers followed from sport program by Petra Vlhová 2nd run in Flachau 2020 slalom with 900.000 viewers following the public TV RTVS2 , in 3rd place was the overtime of the UEFA Euro 2020 play-off qualifier Slovakia-Northern Ireland with 839.000 people watching TV. The 2019 Ice Hockey world championships are the most represented in the Top 10.

[OlympicIRL 5,532]

1 hour ago, hckošice said:

our television has published viewer numbers for the last two years. it would be interesting to see the numbers in different countries.

 

The top number and most viewed program of RTVS was from the 3rd period of the Slovakia-Canada match at the Ice Hockey world championships 2019 with 1.8 million viewers followed from sport program by Petra Vlhová 2nd run in Flachau 2020 slalom with 900.000 viewers following the public TV RTVS2 , in 3rd place was the overtime of the UEFA Euro 2020 play-off qualifier Slovakia-Northern Ireland with 839.000 people watching TV. The 2019 Ice Hockey world championships are the most represented in the Top 10.

 

In terms of most watched sporting events in 2020 here is our top 10....

 

1	Gaelic Football	All-Ireland Final: Dublin v Mayo	876.6k
2	Rugby	Six Nations: France v Ireland	850.3k
3	Hurling	All-Ireland Final: Limerick v Waterford	712.9k
4	Rugby	Six Nations: Ireland v Scotland	635.8k
5	Rugby	Six Nations: England v Ireland	634.4k
6	Rugby	Six Nations: Ireland v Wales	605.2k
7	Football	Euro 2020 Play-Off: Slovakia v Ireland	570.4k
8	Rugby	Six Nations: Ireland v Italy	540.6k
9	Hurling	All-Ireland Semi-Final: Limerick v Galway	534.0k
10	Gaelic Football	All-Ireland Semi-Final: Mayo v Tipperary	533.2k

 

[Grassmarket 3,404]

X-Files theme starts playing.

 

 

A group of eight tourists have gone missing in Russia's infamous Dyatlov Pass where nine people died in unexplained circumstances in 1959.

 

The tourists from Moscow ventured into the pass in the rural region of Ural and had not returned by Wednesday morning as expected, Newsweek reported, citing E1.RU.

 

A source told the Russian outlet: 'They were supposed to leave at eight o'clock this morning. But they have not returned yet and there is no contact with them.'

 

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9249247/Dyatlov-Pass-Eight-tourists-missing-Russia-nine-people-mysteriously-died-1959.html

[Monzanator 4,499]

@hckošice@OlympicIRL

 

You'd be disappointed to know 2020 Top 10 in Poland. 9x ski jumping and PSG vs Bayern Champions League final

 

Bischofshofen Four Hill finale was the highest watched with over 5.1 million people.

 

That's still more than 'Home Alone' on Christmas Eve though which "only" had 4.3 million