Posted on 12/19/2006 3:17:39 PM PST by george76
The big assets have been sent home.
Even the family spokeswoman said thank you to the searchers for their efforts...
There you go. Problem solved. Wonder why they don't do it?
Climbing a mountain (in winter months!?)
without every possible mode of communications
is like traveling across country without a
wireless phone. OK, so decades ago, there
was the adventure of the trek...on your own,
reliant on no one to come to the rescue...
the gasoline and water used up and you're
stuck out in the desert. The stats on how
many people are LOST annually but go
unreported by the media are mind-boggling.
There is NO LOGIC to anyone objecting to
mandatory GPS for climbers. OK, so you
put YOUR life on the line for the thrill
of the self-sufficiency venture. Now
consider the rescuer-lives YOU put at
risk when that self-reliance fails you
due to one basic flaw in your makeup...
stupidity!
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