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Adventurer crushed to death saving climber after huge ice column splits in Utah
NY Post ^
| April 5,
| Snejana Farberov
Posted on 04/05/2023 3:11:48 PM PDT by BenLurkin
The climber, identified by friends as Meg O’Neill, had been attempting to scale the frozen Raven Falls when a massive ice column split and fell in Indian Canyon Sunday, the Duchesne County Sheriff’s Office,
O’Neill managed to push a 21-year-old woman out of the way of falling ice, which officials wrote “probably saved her life.”
But O’Neill wound up crushed beneath “two huge blocks of ice,” resulting in her death.
A 34-year-old man who accompanied the two female climbers was severely injured after falling 40 feet.
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TOPICS: Outdoors
KEYWORDS: dontpetthebison; ice; utah
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posted on
04/05/2023 3:11:48 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
To: BenLurkin
That sounds like such a safe activity
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posted on
04/05/2023 3:13:34 PM PDT
by
NWFree
(Sigma male 🤪)
To: BenLurkin
Yeah, I think trying to scale a frozen waterfall qualifies you for the title “adventurer”.
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posted on
04/05/2023 3:16:30 PM PDT
by
Boogieman
To: BenLurkin
This is why hobbits don’t like adventures.
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posted on
04/05/2023 3:16:50 PM PDT
by
DannyTN
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
04/05/2023 3:16:56 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
To: BenLurkin
While you’re busy not petting the bison, don’t forget to not climb on ice columns in the spring.
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posted on
04/05/2023 3:18:55 PM PDT
by
kiryandil
(China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
To: BenLurkin
They watched too many TV commercials with CGI thrill seekers. Well at least they got a taste of the
gusto on the way out.
These folks should have stayed home, opened the freezer, and grabbed some ice cubes instead. Maybe make a daiquiri.
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posted on
04/05/2023 3:19:59 PM PDT
by
Governor Dinwiddie
(LORD, grant thy people grace to withstand the temptations of the world, the flesh, and the devil.)
To: BenLurkin
Fun reading all the comments by the "Couch Potato Wussie" brigade: adventure has risks and this lady lost her life saving another.
She was a hero. The rest of you, not so much.
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posted on
04/05/2023 3:42:44 PM PDT
by
Chainmail
(Harrassment, to be effective, must be continuous.)
To: Chainmail
To: BenLurkin
More of that toxic masculinity and male privilege we keep hearing about.
10
posted on
04/05/2023 3:49:55 PM PDT
by
TheWriterTX
(Trust not in earthly princes....!)
To: BenLurkin
Heroic on the part of the deceased.
11
posted on
04/05/2023 3:54:42 PM PDT
by
dadgum
(Overjoyed to be the Pariah.)
To: TheWriterTX
The decedent
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posted on
04/05/2023 3:57:55 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
To: TheWriterTX
The decedent
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posted on
04/05/2023 3:57:56 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
To: Boogieman
Back in college I went with a buddy to go climb an ice falls. No ropes. He made it up to the top (he was a climber).
I had never done anything like that before. I made it up about six feet and then my legs started shaking uncontrollably from the nerves. As much as I tried to calm them down (I didn’t think I was scared in my mind), they wouldn’t stop shaking. I tried several times but never got more than 6 feet up.
Looking back I thought how amazing the body is - when it can recognize something stupid even when I didn’t!
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posted on
04/05/2023 4:04:11 PM PDT
by
21twelve
(Ever Vigilant. Never Fearful.)
To: Chainmail
“Fun reading all the comments by the “Couch Potato Wussie” brigade: adventure has risks and this lady lost her life saving another.
She was a hero. The rest of you, not so much”.
Right on!!
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posted on
04/05/2023 4:10:16 PM PDT
by
laplata
(They want each crisis to take the greatest toll possible.)
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
04/05/2023 4:28:07 PM PDT
by
Tax-chick
(Trees are the most civil society.)
To: laplata
The woman’s instincts to save others took over, and that’s what she did.
A very unselfish act. Prayers for her, and her loved ones.
Now my question to all you couch potatoes is, “ What do you want to do. Die an old man lying in bed pissing all over yourself.”
To: BenLurkin
“But O’Neill wound up crushed beneath “two huge blocks of ice,” resulting in her death.”
Should have been in a bar with a couple of small blocks of ice in her drink.
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posted on
04/05/2023 4:38:07 PM PDT
by
Bonemaker
(invictus maneo)
To: BenLurkin
Reminds me of that plane crash in DC in the 80s. Survivors were awaiting rescue in the Potomac by a chopper hovering overhead. A guy in the river had the rescue rope right in front of him several times yet he handed it to people nearby each time. The guy died but the people near him lived.
To: Boogieman
More like a Darwin contestant, or revive the 1000 Ways to Die tv series.
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posted on
04/05/2023 4:42:32 PM PDT
by
Bonemaker
(invictus maneo)
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