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British Skier Falls 5,000ft to Death in French Alps
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| May 19, 2013 6:07 PM GMT
| Timur Moon
Posted on 05/20/2013 7:07:05 AM PDT by BenLurkin
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To: ken5050
***It’s only the last 100 feet that kills you..***
Actually it is not the fall that kills you. It is that sudden stop.
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posted on
05/20/2013 7:50:05 AM PDT
by
Ruy Dias de Bivar
(When someone burns a cross on your lawn, the best firehose is an AK-47.)
To: Sherman Logan
****Quite probably he bounced much of the way.****
****TILT!****
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posted on
05/20/2013 7:51:53 AM PDT
by
Ruy Dias de Bivar
(When someone burns a cross on your lawn, the best firehose is an AK-47.)
To: BenLurkin
The man, who has yet to be named, fell to his death Irresponsible parenting.
To: eartrumpet
The man, who has yet to be named, fell to his death Irresponsible parenting.LOL!
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posted on
05/20/2013 7:55:26 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
To: BenLurkin
So the way I understand it, the men abandoned a cable car, their one source of shelter on the mountain, to go try their luck in a storm with 5000 ft cliffs nearby....
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posted on
05/20/2013 7:55:30 AM PDT
by
PGR88
To: eartrumpet
Lol. I see what you did there.
How sad for him, his family, and friends. Mother nature is relentless.
To: wbill
Earlier in the week, a British climber survived a 700-metre drop, escaping with bruises after being hit by an avalanche on the nearby Aiguille de Bionnassay, on the Italian side of the border. He was said to have survived by "swimming" through snow and ice as it collapsed down the face of one of Mont Blanc's highest peaks.
To: BenLurkin
I’ve been skiing in that area and stayed in Chamonix (Aspen Village will remnind you of the village of Chamonix). And with the opening of the Mont Blanc tunnel it is easily accessible from Geneva, Switzerland (about an hours drive).
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posted on
05/20/2013 9:37:07 AM PDT
by
Hotlanta Mike
("Governing a great natiorn is like cooking a small fish - too much handling will spoil it." Lao Tzu)
To: BenLurkin
To: All
Isn't it rather late for skiing in the Alps?
I seem to remember that in the 60’s Swiss skiing was iffy when Easter fell late in the year.
You would think with all of the globull warming going on that he would be hiking, not skiing this time of year. /S
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posted on
05/20/2013 10:35:09 AM PDT
by
az_gila
To: a fool in paradise
o/~ I believe I can fly... o/~
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posted on
05/20/2013 10:35:37 AM PDT
by
Slings and Arrows
(You can't have IngSoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
To: a fool in paradise
“5,000 feet. Is that some kind of a record?”
No, but it’s better than average. [rimshot]
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posted on
05/20/2013 4:39:48 PM PDT
by
PLMerite
(Shut the Beyotch Down! Burn, baby, burn!)
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