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how sad is this?
http://www.dailymail....-conquering-peak.html
I can't quite believe it. the poor man.
If you saw a film depicting such a tale, you would think it incredulous!
I don't quite understand why they had to leave him though.
I can't quite believe it. the poor man.
If you saw a film depicting such a tale, you would think it incredulous!
I don't quite understand why they had to leave him though.
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If they hadn't left him, they would all have died. At that altitude they need a constant supply of bottled oxygen and would have been running out. There would have been an urgency to get back to a lower altitude and to rejoin their support camp.
It is much like divers at a great depth - if one gets into difficulties, there is only a limited amount of time that others can stay to assist before they have insufficient air to reach the surface themselves.
If they hadn't left him, they would all have died. At that altitude they need a constant supply of bottled oxygen and would have been running out. There would have been an urgency to get back to a lower altitude and to rejoin their support camp.
It is much like divers at a great depth - if one gets into difficulties, there is only a limited amount of time that others can stay to assist before they have insufficient air to reach the surface themselves.
Occupational hazard... Everest, like most other similar mountains, is littered with the corpses of climbers:
http://www.google.co....image&ved=0CCwQ9QEwBQ
http://www.google.co....image&ved=0CCwQ9QEwBQ
It is a sad outcome , and one feels sympathy for his family .
However on a more general note , i cannot see the point of the exercise - perhaps someone can explain .
It's not as if there is some worthwhile goal - if it was akin for example, of searching for the North West passage , i could see the point .
However on a more general note , i cannot see the point of the exercise - perhaps someone can explain .
It's not as if there is some worthwhile goal - if it was akin for example, of searching for the North West passage , i could see the point .
good news, Berti: thanks to climate change, they've found it
http://en.wikipedia.o...cts_of_climate_change
http://en.wikipedia.o...cts_of_climate_change
its so sad and i really feel for his family and for the ones who had to leave him behind, that mustve been soul destroying! But it makes you think why on earth people feel the need to climb these mountains whaen the risks are so high and that all they get for it is a photo at the top.
when i climb the mountain behind my house, my reward is the pub at the top of llanwonno.
when i climb the mountain behind my house, my reward is the pub at the top of llanwonno.