"Dead" Everest Climber Alive, and being rescued.

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I know, but its amusing that it took 3 people to point out what was meant before the light went on. I guess the internet language barrier strikes again.

On a tangent, some of the nicest people I've ever met have been from Western Samoa, I'd love to get my arse back to the South Pacific. If you ever find yourself in that area go and check out the bike pumps, you won't be dissapointed.

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I know, but its amusing that it took 3 people to point out what was meant before the light went on. I guess the internet language barrier strikes again.

On a tangent, some of the nicest people I've ever met have been from Western Samoa, I'd love to get my arse back to the South Pacific. If you ever find yourself in that area go and check out the bike pumps, you won't be dissapointed.

Yeah, I suppose it was very, very slightly amusing, yes.....

hahahahaaaa - fair one square one - it was a long day!

The Czech people are great - beer = pivo - try Staropramen.

And they don't give a fuck about bicycle pumps

'for it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that, an' "chuck 'im out, the brute!" But it's "saviour of 'is country" when the guns begin to shoot.'

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Just wondering what happens to all the bodies.
One report had them lining the path to the top.
How many dead bods are doted along the way.?

Apparently it's just not feasible to retrieve them??
Leaving people for dead in such a place becomes understandable if saving some-one who was under prepared is likely to kill a rescuer/ fellow climber.

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In the 1996 disastrous Everest Season, Beck Weathers was rescued from Camp 2...above 22,000 feet. Click on the helicopter rescue link on this page and it will tell you that Beck's rescue was the second highest. So, to rescue this fellow from near the top of Everest would seem to me to require a descent of over 7,000 feet to make it possible.

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"No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny: the officious demands of policemen, government clerks, and electromechanical gadgets." - Edward Abbey

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What a survivor that guy is.
Saved himself despite being abandoned overnight on Everest.
He'd probably make a very good motivation speaker.

Some of the stories I've found are so tragic and brutal but show immense human spirit.
Hope the current crop of climbers aren't trading their humanity for a view from the top.

More saving less abandoning =

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