Posted on 01/17/2012 2:20:39 PM PST by TigerLikesRooster
Hiker lost in blizzard for two days burned money to keep warm
A hiker who was lost in a blizzard for two days said he burned his socks and money to keep warm.
Yong Chun Kim, 66, of Tacoma, who was climbing Mount Rainier in Washington State, said he had fire starters with him and first burned some leaves. Then he started burning personal items: his socks and then $1 and $5 bills from his wallet.
Mr Kim also said he kept moving to keep warm, took cover under a tree at night and dreamed of his wife and a nice hot sauna.
He became separated from his snowshoe group Saturday and wasn't rescued until Monday. Mr Kim was in such good shape that when he was found, he did not have to go to a hospital and, instead, went home with his family.
Searchers traversed deep snow and snowshoed up a river valley to pull him from the icy remote backcountry. The team reached Kim on Monday afternoon but it took nine hours to bring him from the rugged terrain covered in deep snow to a road, spokesman Lee Taylor said.
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Is he a sitting congressman? That would explain a lot.
A man with money to burn.
Good thing he didn’t have a Koran.
next time he’ll know better and take Turbotax Timmy and Bernanke with him.
The idea of a group IS togetherness. How the hell do you get separated??
Mitt Romney does this at every weenie roast. Tax returns, too.
He fell off a slope.
I could be wrong, but I think he lost his footing and slid down a steep hill. He couldn’t get back up, and was going to pick up the trail elsewhere, and meet back up with the group that way. Not a good idea, but if he couldn’t get back up the hill, I guess he was stuck.
You strike off to the side to get some privacy for a call of nature.
I've done it myself. Once, with really bad results.
/johnny
“took cover under a tree at night”
But burned his socks.
I’ll have to remember this, next time the IRS audits and wants to know where the income went.
The first time I read it, I thought he was burning a monkey.
Just how much money was he carrying? I can’t understand how burning a few little pieces of paper could make a difference. Maybe he was just using his money to START a fire.
There is something called a Freudian slip in speech. I tend to think the same thing happens in reading. You hate a money, I presume.:-)
You strike off to the side to get some privacy for a call of nature.
I’ve done it myself. Once, with really bad results.
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Well, I hope it all came out ok in the end.
Yeah, it occurred to me, too. Either for starting a fire or he was plain desperate.
I learned my lesson. I'll pee in front of a group now, if required.
But I don't strike out alone in the wilderness in bad weather.
/johnny
What did you do that required two weeks in ICU?
He is a lucky man, in some situations like this they may of had to wait for warm weather to find the body.
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