There is a road that runs to the top of Gray’s Peak.
106 years ago men stayed on the deck of a sinking ship in freezing conditions so that women and children could get into lifeboats and live.
Deplorables, no doubt.
Just another morning PT event...
Cool story.
Ooooo! he said “ma’am”!!!!! is some feminazi college professor going to criticize him for saying “ma’am”?
Reminds me of my buddy who, with five other guys, carried a disabled woman down 20 flights of stairs in WTC I on 9/11. She was in the ‘staging area’ for the disabled people on the 20th floor, but felt uneasy and asked to get out.
She was probably the only wheelchair-bound person who escaped alive from that building.
Woman or not, experienced hiker, or not. These things happen to you when you are in the mountains.
God Bless her saviors. Hiking, up here, not without peril.
This fool ...got sent the bill for his *rescue search*...
https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/new-hampshire/articles/2018-04-24/missing-man-found-at-luxury-hotel-in-the-white-mountains
This experienced woman hiker, found dead after months of searching the Whites...
Back when I was a younger bull we had a 20 year old kid with MD in the youth group at church. One outing was a 2 mile hike to the top of a mountain, maybe 1000’ elevation change.
He couldn’t make it so I carried him on my back. On the way back down it was easier for me to go fast bouncing from point to point on the trail.
About 1/2 way down he screams out STOP! “What the matter, are you hurt?”, I asked. ‘No, but you’re beating the heck out of me’.
He walked the rest of the way down.
Here in Colorado, ten to twelve people die each year from medical conditions stressed by high altitude. Most common is pulmonary edema. Many folks don’t realized what altitude can do to you if you are not ready for it.