Posted on 08/19/2022 3:58:33 PM PDT by BenLurkin
A young Brit has died in a tragic accident at the "volcano from hell" in Ecuador.
Gil Banks, 25, was attempting to climb up the Rucu Pichincha volcano near Quito on Sunday, August 14, when he fell to his death.
Banks was originally born in London and grew up in Newton Mearns before he emigrated with his family to Israel, Glasgow Live reported.
He leaves behind his Glaswegian father and English mother following the sad accident.
His horror death was confirmed by the Israeli Embassy in Ecuador.
The Times of Israel reported Banks had recently finished serving in an elite military unit and was travelling around South America.
Gil's friends paid tribute to him, saying he had a "great smile".
The huge Pinchincha volcano tops out at a dizzying 4,784m high and its most recent eruption was in August 1998, leaving Quito covered in a few inches of ash.
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Well, Chili is actually a town, located a few miles southwest of Rochester NY.
But it's pronounced Chy-Lie.
‘ He left very little behind.’
Probably skidded most of it off on the way down.
(Wolves in photo in Californian accents); “Give it up, dude…we’re vegan!”
I climbed Rucu Pichincha while climbing in Ecuador in the early 1990s. It was a warmup before higher peaks Cayambe, Cotopaxi and Chimborazo. Pichincha only had steep sections near the summit and did not seem very dangerous. But, if suffering from altitude sickness it could become dangerous due to equilibrium loss.
Just stand in front of the Russian/Komsomol type bathhouse called “Mans Country” (aka “Boystown”) where Emanuel, Obama, and Michelle (Michael) Robinson and the Russian Mafia hung/hang out on the South side of Chicago, with a sign warning of Gods imminent judgement on sodomy -
You will be out down with much more than your current carbon value.
You never have to fear a California ghost.
Booo, booo dude totally boooooooo
It’s actually on the North side. He would have other problems on the South side, which is the baddest part of town.
Was. I believe I read about its closing in the Reader...back when that was still sort of worth reading.
“...originally born in London...” Huh?
You want to be eaten by wolves? I was hoping to be trampled by a herd of rhinoceroses.
Yes, you are correct, about the bathhouse and the Reader.I used to pick up the Reader all the time.
You are right.
I stand corrected.
It’s North of downtown, and South of Highland Park and Evanston.
Chile is red and green in New Mexico 😀
“I hope to meet my own death out in the woods on a long winter hike with wolves closing in.”
Ugh, not me. Being eaten by wolves? Seriously?
At least it’s not the ‘volcano to hell’
Climbing a volcano, is not exactly on my bucket list. 🤭
When I lived in NM I worked with a guy whose last name was Chiles. It was pronounced “chyles.” We had some fun with that.
Pichincha is higher than Mt. Whitney, the highest peak in the 48 contiguous states (which is 4,421 meters high).
There is a Chiles Valley in northern California (near Napa Valley), presumably named for an early settler.
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