I’m sick of watching the relatives of the missing men on TV praise the courage of the climbers,
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The rescue workers are the brave people in this event. The climbers were seeking recreation.
"The rescue workers are the brave people in this event. The climbers were seeking recreation."
I agree. The ones that really disgust me are the calls of "hero!" It may take a personal heroic effort to make some of these climbs, but that doesn't make one a hero.
One of the worst was a group of Everest climbers last year, who were hailed as heroes because they stopped and gave a dying climber an oxygen bottle at an altitude where they could have really helped him. Instead of doing all they could do, they tossed a bottle his way and continued on up. For that the media and their friends and family labeled them heroes. They left a guy to die. Not very heroic in my opinion.