To: wagglebee
Again a hunch but from the disaster stories I've seen I'm betting that improvements in weather forecasting has caused a drop in the fatality rates.
Climbers still get surprised by the weather and die but apparently not nearly so many now as in the past.
36 posted on
05/16/2007 1:45:42 PM PDT by
Proud_texan
(Just my opinion, no relationship to reality is expressed or implied.)
To: Proud_texan
Yep. They have advanced computers up there now and unless it is a freak episode, they have a pretty good idea what the weather will be doing.
38 posted on
05/16/2007 1:51:54 PM PDT by
wagglebee
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To: Proud_texan; wagglebee
Climbers still get surprised by the weather and die but apparently not nearly so many now as in the past.I agree. The 1996 disaster was precipitated by a freak storm and failure to go down in time, which slowed and even halted the descent. But it was altitude sickness that killed them.
41 posted on
05/16/2007 2:06:20 PM PDT by
angkor
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