Posted on 05/31/2014 9:37:38 PM PDT by steve86
There is no chance of survival for six missing Mount Rainier climbers, officials say. The two guides and four clients from Seattle-based Alpine Ascents International were last heard from at 6 p.m. Wednesday by satellite phone.
Six climbers were killed in a 3,300-foot fall along the steep north slope of Mount Rainier, officials said Saturday, in the worst disaster on the mountain in more than three decades.
Searchers found tents and clothes, mixed with rock and ice, in a debris field along the Carbon Glacier at 9,500 feet, according to the National Park Service. The group’s climbing route, to Liberty Peak, is prone to slides and considered relatively difficult.
The six climbers — two guides and four clients from Seattle-based Alpine Ascents International — were last heard from at 6 p.m. Wednesday by satellite phone. At that time the party was at 12,800 feet with plans to camp overnight.
When they failed to return Friday as planned, the company contacted park rangers. Alpine Ascents is the company that lost five Sherpas at Mount Everest this spring.
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Agreed.
Endorphins actually. They do it for the endocrine system. I know, I am an irrational seeker of risk in circumstance I believe I understand and can manage. It. Is compelling and yet really not safe.
That's wayyyy to reckless for me.
http://www.traditionalmountaineering.org/Report_Hood_EpiscopalSchool.htm
Different mountain, different year, and the merry month of May. Mother nature doesn’t play favorites.
In memory of a friend who’s child was lost in the Mt Hood tragedy.
I amen your post 26. Climbing dangerous mountains on your own volition is not courage, nothing resembling it.
So true there are risks in very thing one does. It is starting to sound like a bunch of liberals here.
Sit home drink your coffee and beer do nothing it is a bit safer.
I am going out and enjoy life doing things I find enjoyable.
If I die doing one of those things well no one leaves this life alive.
While my sympathy goes out to the victims and their loved ones, I have mixed emotions about why these people died. Like sky diving, mountain climbing by its very nature is dangerous. Climbers know the dangers and take their chances each time the make attempts at climbing to lofty peaks which are but places for birds to perch. No matter what equipment and safeguards are used, one miscalculation, one misstep, etc. and its over.
That's what I did when I used to play. Although I used 10 putt as the mark. Seven approach, 10 putt. (on a par 3) :^)
This thead is sad to read. Not for the departed, though that is unfortunate, but for what it shows Americans have become. Afraid, and way too pampered.
Climb mountains, ride motorcycles, fly planes, explore caves, drive fast, challenge yourselved. Break the goddammit rules. Test yourselves.
These whiners aren’t who American men used to be. Too many wusses who are afraid of their own shadow. Geez.
I’m sorry to hear that Newtoidaho ((((Hugs))))
Same with a lot of daily activities driving or riding in a motor vehicle is one of the most dangerous ones
That people do with out hardly thinking about it. One wrong look one miss calculation there’s a 80000 lb truck in your face. Your dead.
Comfort and prayers for families and fellow travelers
“It’s always further than it looks.
It’s always taller than it looks.
And it’s always harder than it looks.”
Blues Traveler - The Mountains Win Again
Thank heavens they didn’t get a concussion playing football!
Feel free to jack me up personally if I ever fit that category. Sometimes the view is better when outside looking in than inside looking out.
Thanks
RIP Doug Vercoe, May 7, 1980
Muir snowfield crevasse, never recovered.
Most of those things are fun, but hiring professional guides to help you walk up a hill to the point of pain and injury/taking pictures of yourself/then climbing back down like 50,000 other people have done before you seems to be low on actual fun and high on empty vanity and bragging rights.
Agreed. Live life to the fullest! They’re not hero’s but damn, they were living life to the fullest. I ride fast motorcycles and shoot and blow things up and eventually it may catch up to me, but I have no regrets. I’m 52 and will not go to my death just sitting around waiting to die.
I think there are also more practical reasons to climb, hike, ride, race, or whatever. It’s an excellent test of your gear and a great way to develop advanced skills, should you ever need them for any reason. And I mean not only the skills to traverse a peak or survive extreme elements, for example, but also the skills to organize and lead others to do so.
RIP, friends.
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