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The blood begins to lose oxygen and thicken, just as a car's oil congeals in frigid temperatures....
Memo to self: Don't climb notoriously deadly Mt. Hood in 100 mile per hour blizzards.
they are dead and I think it is time for the family for the family to realize that. I know they don't want to give up hope, I couldn't do that myself. But the likelyhood of them being alive are slim to none!
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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!