Wow, what a story. Sharp rock cut their rope and they lost all their supplies: safety equipment left, tent, stove to melt snow for water, warm clothes, ice axes, crampons, head flashlight for moving at night.
Imagine what you’d feel watching all that life-saving equipment going down, down, down, gone!
Thank goodness they had a satellite communicator.
I’ve started taking a Garmin Inreach Mini satellite communicator with me on my day hikes. I’m often in somewhat remote areas with no cell service and no other hikers (or only one or two others). Nothing like what these women experienced, of course.
“Imagine what you’d feel watching all that life-saving equipment going down, down, down, gone!”
No, that wouldn’t be me. I got nervous just having to walk down the UP escalator at Macy’s a few minutes ago (Down escalator out of service). I’m the nervous type and usually carry a pint of whole blood with me because... Well, you can never be too careful /s