"Let me tell you about your 'skills'...
Posted on 05/03/2016 10:15:45 AM PDT by BBell
Discovery of missing climbers, preserved in glacier, ‘brings closure and relief’ 16 years after deadly avalanche
On the slopes of Tibet’s Shishapangma — the world’s 14th-tallest peak, a glacial mountain that rises some 26,000 feet above sea level — a pair of European climbers stumbled upon the remains of a disaster that struck 16 years earlier. Locked under a layer of blue ice for more than a decade, but exposed in an early melt brought about by hotter than average weather, was another pair of climbers.
Hikers David Goettler and Ueli Steck have, in all likelihood, found the resting place of David Bridges and Alex Lowe. The latter pair vanished in a massive avalanche that left the mountaineering community reeling — as USA Today reported at the time of the catastrophe in October 1999, Bridges and Lowe were “two of the best.”
Goettler and Steck, who found the bodies Wednesday, reported seeing the remains of what are believed to be Bridges and Lowe wearing yellow mountaineering boots and North Face backpacks. To Conrad Anker — a climber who survived the snow that claimed Lowe, his closest friend — such a description leaves little room for question. After a phone call with Goettler, Anker “concluded that the two were undoubtedly David Bridges and Alex Lowe,” according to the Alex Lowe Charitable Foundation, a nonprofit organization founded by Jennifer Lowe-Anker, who was married to Lowe at the time of the avalanche.
“After sixteen-and-a-half years, this brings closure and relief for me and Jenni and for our family,” Anker, who later married Lowe-Anker, said in a news release on the foundation’s website.
Both Bridges, 29, and Lowe, 40, were master climbers: Bridges, a champion paraglider and a mountaineer, had led a successful expedition to the top of K2 at age 23 and was acting as the
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Thankful for glow-bull warming and the early thaw that revealed the cool dudes. With out us polluting, they may never have been recovered.
What are you doing?
Chillin like a mountain climber stuck in an avalanche.
Seriously, though. Glad the families have closure. In these instances, these guys, although I'm sure they didn't want to die, but they did so doing what they loved, guaranteed.
Tough way to go...yet if it happens in a split-second during the course of doing what you love, things could be worse.
“but exposed in an early melt brought about by hotter than average weather”
So, in other words, it was as hot then as it is now.
Glad the families have closure, but it wasn’t like there was much doubt about what happened and where they were.
"Let me tell you about your 'skills'...
That’s impossible. There are no glaciers anymore. AlGore told me so.
Nor is there a social security "lockbox." Al Gore is a big fat liar.
At least they waited until the second paragraph before invoking Global Whorming.
I don’t know where you got that revolting human remains graphic image that mocks the two dead climbers and their loved ones.
However, I’ve asked to moderator to pull it.
That photo post Is Disgraceful.
Your crude poor taste harms both the climber’s and our FR family.
RE: “Just Chill’in bro”
Like so many adventurers and thrill seekers - they died doing what they loved!
I wonder how much money was wasted looking for these fools.
I was in high school with Alex Lowe and his brother Andy.
Great guys.
Damn shame to lose one of them.
None.
There was never a rescue attempt.
Alex Lowe was a really fine man.
You would like him if you had met him.
So, was there something up there they were trying to find, or was this just a lark?
They were working on becoming the next missing climbers.
See the Movie “Meru”. I have watched it several times now. You will see the extreme kings of mountain climbing, including Anker. Incredible!!
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