Life imitates art
What is it with the Europeans and not being prepared for inclement weather? Something to do with the cradle to grave socialism?
The dead are up to 6. Posted wrong article.
I’m surprised they would not be prepared for cold weather.
After all that conditioning, planning and pure hard work to get up that high. No thought given to what if they had to stay here for a while. Maybe that’s what a high risk taker does when they’re busy with their sport, they take yet another risk that the weather will hold up.
At that altitude you can’t always anticipate the onset of high winds. Weather forecasting has never been entirely accurate. What they needed was shelter and the winds and lowered visibility kept them from reaching it.
Life imitates art
RIP.
Wonder if their judgement was inherently flawed by the nonsense that they have come to believe.. Some might have thought late April, global warming, it won’t get too cold.
The Alps are dangerous.
At 10,000 ft. anything should be expected at any time of the year. I’ve seen horizontal winds whipping snow in July twice in the Rockies here in CO. Once at 8,000 ft. and once at 7,600 feet in the Estes Valley on the 4th of July.
I suspect conditions were considerably more miserable at 10k and above on those occasions.
This isn’t the Himalayas or South America. Alpine climbers travel very light.
This guy was a hockey player who disappeared on a ski trip in Austria back in 1989 and was never seen alive again. His car was found parked at the resort, and the reports of his fate ranged from something as ordinary as a ski accident on a backcountry trail ... to something as outlandish as an abduction ... to something even more outlandish like a deliberate disappearance as a double agent for a Warsaw Pact intelligence agency.
They found his body 14 years later under a layer of receding ice and snow not far from the ski lodge. Based on the extent of his injuries, the most likely explanation for his demise was that he had been hit by a snow grooming machine while returning to the lodge in the dark, and buried in the snow for almost 15 years.
One would hope none of them had young kids, but, sadly, that is not likely the case, as many people are THAT SELFISH.
The high mountains are beautiful but unforgiving.
Did they find a stranger there?
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If they were not killed by an avalanche, it simply means they were ill prepared hikers, with no adequate clothes and surviving techniques.
The European Alps can give pleasant surprises, where you can make in a one-day climb up and down a reputedly difficult moutaintop in sandals (lots of tracks, lots of refuges) and feel you are the king of the world instead of admitting this was just because of lucky weather. It’s a very populated region compared to many other mountain ranges and that gives a false sense of security.
In before or after they deserved it for being risk takers and shouldn’t put mountain rescue guys at risk
Not when you can sit at home and pound on your iPad..lol