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To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity

The two most experience Sherpa guides determined that the frozen man could not be rescued.

You could have done better?


6 posted on 05/28/2006 6:18:07 AM PDT by Mr. Brightside
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To: Mr. Brightside

A dozen passersby couldn't share their oxygen to get him off the mountain? No, they all said to themselves, "I didn't pay a hundred grand to make it 99% of the way and abort to rescue some guy 300 m from the top." I suppose it's like the unwritten rules of baseball. Climb the hill, accept that risk.


8 posted on 05/28/2006 6:29:12 AM PDT by Excuse_My_Bellicosity ("Sharpei diem - Seize the wrinkled dog.")
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To: Mr. Brightside
You could have done better?

Maybe this guy thinks so:

The world is angry. Sir Edmund Hillary, who was on the team that first surmounted Mt Qomolangma in 1953, called it "horrifying" that climbers would leave a dying man.

I'll go with him.

9 posted on 05/28/2006 6:29:43 AM PDT by Racehorse (Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.)
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