Posted on 03/09/2017 9:39:42 AM PST by DUMBGRUNT
Montoya slid an estimated 1,500-2,000 feet down East face of the mountain, later telling his mother he fell long enough "to do a lot of talking, thinking and yelling all the way down."... Montoya suffered severe frostbite, a broken elbow, and a broken pelvis. The fall even broke a chunk out of his helmet. He is being treated at University Hospital in Denver for frostbite to his right hand. They are trying to prevent him from losing his fingers after his glove got wet and froze.
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Yup. But they tend to wear faster. Especially with a full backpack.
Maybe the technology will improve the design — the best of both worlds?
There is definitely a need.
I suspect that he may have gone down Green Gully, the hard way?
http://www.hikingintherockies.com/fourteeners/pyramid%20peak/pyramid.htm
The article said he went down the East slope, Green Gully appears to be North East?
Is that english?
A bit esoteric perhaps?
Climbing vernacular, but still US English .
I see your point.
An approximate translation:
Many years on rock and ice (Rock climbing and ice climbing.), only two screamers(Long vocal falls). On the longer one, free climbing(no rope used.), I ask my partner if I made any noise? It had a nice powder snow runout(at the bottom of the icefalls the change from vertical to horizontal not abrupt, and the fresh snow was a soft cushion.).
British English climbing vernacular is sometimes difficult for me to follow.
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