Posted on 05/24/2006 3:16:47 PM PDT by Mad Dawgg
"I think we ought find out who all these 40 fearless men and women are who let nothing stand in the way of making the summit. Let their names be shouted from the mountaintops and let it be known just what they did to get there."
I did a google search and came up with Everestnews.com (since mentioned on this thread!). It has lists of names of folks who summit each day. I don't know what day this happened- or on what route.
Very eloquent post.
Thank you.
My gosh. I didn't see this story on FR and hadn't heard anything about it until GMA this morning, in between mutings for mention of the Ditzes - I see there was also a 400-post thread a couple of days ago, so I'm going back to read all. This is appalling.
Arent you forgetting one thing before condemning them so harshly ? They were atleast honest about what they did. If their conscience werent stirred even to a miniscule extent, why would they even bothering bringing this episode to light ?
One guy let the cat out.
I can understand them not wanting to disclose...they think people would think ill of them. Yep.
That's why they say "Greater love hath no man." To make the attempt to save another human being, even at the cost of ones own life, is what separates man from the beasts of the field.
I used to be a lifeguard, used to surf, but never had as close a call as you had . . . but by heaven I know that you made the right call.
I don't see how these jerks on the mountain can live with themselves. Maybe after awhile it will sink in.
Sharpe went up by himself. He apparently misjudged the amount of Ox he needed to take. He summited and went down, on the way back down. He appears to have been the last one going down that day. He spent the night up there, which you can't do. It's -22oF and the Ox pressure is only 29% of sea level. He litterally froze. The only time he was even slightly conscious, was when folks were trying to get him up and giving him Ox.
The other folks found him later the next day. All he could was move was his eyelids. Not only did the Inglis group try to help him, some Sherpa buddies of his that he previously had climbed with did also. This guy was well liked. Had he gone up with someone else, or had comms with him, it probably wouldn't have ended up this way. It would have been a night op, but I would have gone up to get him, before he froze. I doubt many clients could. After he hits the condition he was in though, it's futile. He was literally froze stiff. From this point, you're talking about bringing a body back, not trying to save him.
I noted from various outfitter's sites, that they are always running to rescue various teams of clients. Sherpas and staff provide help and equipment from the limited amt available. There's an account on the previous thread on what the Sherpas tried to do. Inglis' description of Sharpe wasn't given by anyone except dome Brit moralist. That link is on the same thread. The papers and Hillary failed to give Sharpe's real condition and the circumstances that led to it. Sensationalism is all they're interested in.
I'd prefer to have been named after Sir Edmund than to have invented the Internet.
How could anyone believe that Hillary Rodham, born in 1947, was named after Edmund Hillary, who climbed Mount Everest six years after she was born?
You mean Hillary lied when she told that story? I'm shocked!
The lie was Bill's. But hey, give him credit - he expected most people didn't know or wouldn't bother to check dates and he was right.
You sure about that?
Origins: During a stop in Nepal while on a south Asian goodwill tour in April 1995, First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton engaged in a brief (and reportedly coincidental) meeting with Sir Edmund Hillary (who, along with Tenzing Norgay, became the first person to reach the summit of the world's highest mountain, Mt. Everest, in 1953) and told reporters she had been named after the famed mountain climber. The notion that Ms. Clinton's given name was inspired by the man who conquered Everest was almost certainly a bit of fiction invented for political expediency (as many critics have noted, Edmund Hillary didn't become world-famous until six years after Hillary Rodham was born), but there are some subtleties to this claim which should be considered before it is completely dismissed:
Bill made the claim in his autobiography, though I may have been wrong in thinking he was the first one.
A better analogy is if you let the woman drown, then grabbed your surfboard and went out to have fun.
It's a joke, a sarcastic joke.
Don't know anything about Everest, do you?
Can't be more dangerous than surfing a 50 foot wave. Hear of anybody paddling around a drowning man to reach a wave?
Only by a factor of 200.
Try surfing that wave 10 miles out and wearing an irremovable coat of armor.
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