Posted on 08/31/2018 4:45:15 AM PDT by where's_the_Outrage?
When a Colorado woman collapsed at the top of a 14,000 feet summit in the Rocky Mountains, strangers banded together to carry her all the way down.
“It was just so amazing,” 55-year-old Beverly Wedelstedt told InsideEdition.com. “Amazing humanity.”
She explained that she and some friends were hiking Gray’s Peak last Saturday when Wedelstedt felt her knee give out.
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As her friends discussed how best so support her down the narrow trail together, another hiker chimed in, saying he'd carry her himself.
“One gentleman says, ‘I’m military. Are you comfortable doing a fireman carry? I’m going to throw you over my shoulder,'" Wedelstedt said. “I’m thinking, really nice kid, good looking, I weigh 160 pounds and he wants to do this? He’s like, ‘Yes, ma’am, I’m active military.’”
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There is a road that runs to the top of Gray’s Peak.
106 years ago men stayed on the deck of a sinking ship in freezing conditions so that women and children could get into lifeboats and live.
Deplorables, no doubt.
Just another morning PT event...
The wife and I used to picnic there every summer.
Cool story.
Story is exactly what it is. How do you get away implying they carried a woman down a 14er when at most they carried her a couple hundred feet to the SUV?
It is a neat place, though. When you get to the top you can see I 70 about 5 thousand feet below. To get there go to Georgetown and when you look across Georgetown at the upstream end you see a road winding up the corner of the canyon. Take it. As soon as you “top out” there is a valley that runs off to the south and the road there can take you back to The Springs. As you enter that valley there is a reservoir and a dirt road to the right (and some old mine tailing IIRC. Take that dirt road to the end. The top of Gray’s Peak. It used to be the old Arkansas Railroad bed. You can add a 14er without getting out of the SUV.
Those are the best 14ers!
Funny how the bluster about equality and women’s empowerment disappears when they get into a jam.
Nice story. However, one wonders why a woman didn’t carry her down...equality and all, you know.
The fact of the matter that libtards don’t want to face is that women only relieve the equal treatment men grant them. In a world where violence is always the final default they might want to consider treating this courtesy with more respect. Even my dear wife of 46 years whom I treat with the utmost respect will admit that I weigh almost twice what she does.
One of my favorite memories from many years ago......Georgetown....Hotel de Paris
I remember that road leading straight up the mountain
Ever wonder just where in the hell that road went? Guarnella Pass and back to Coloradan Springs. The dirt road to the right leads to The Argentine Pass railroad bed. Right over the peak of Gray’s Mountain. It is beautiful back there. We used to go glissading on the snow in July.
Ooooo! he said “ma’am”!!!!! is some feminazi college professor going to criticize him for saying “ma’am”?
Reminds me of my buddy who, with five other guys, carried a disabled woman down 20 flights of stairs in WTC I on 9/11. She was in the ‘staging area’ for the disabled people on the 20th floor, but felt uneasy and asked to get out.
She was probably the only wheelchair-bound person who escaped alive from that building.
Woman or not, experienced hiker, or not. These things happen to you when you are in the mountains.
God Bless her saviors. Hiking, up here, not without peril.
This fool ...got sent the bill for his *rescue search*...
https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/new-hampshire/articles/2018-04-24/missing-man-found-at-luxury-hotel-in-the-white-mountains
This experienced woman hiker, found dead after months of searching the Whites...
Back when I was a younger bull we had a 20 year old kid with MD in the youth group at church. One outing was a 2 mile hike to the top of a mountain, maybe 1000’ elevation change.
He couldn’t make it so I carried him on my back. On the way back down it was easier for me to go fast bouncing from point to point on the trail.
About 1/2 way down he screams out STOP! “What the matter, are you hurt?”, I asked. ‘No, but you’re beating the heck out of me’.
He walked the rest of the way down.
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