Posted on 05/31/2014 9:37:38 PM PDT by steve86
There is no chance of survival for six missing Mount Rainier climbers, officials say. The two guides and four clients from Seattle-based Alpine Ascents International were last heard from at 6 p.m. Wednesday by satellite phone.
Six climbers were killed in a 3,300-foot fall along the steep north slope of Mount Rainier, officials said Saturday, in the worst disaster on the mountain in more than three decades.
Searchers found tents and clothes, mixed with rock and ice, in a debris field along the Carbon Glacier at 9,500 feet, according to the National Park Service. The groups climbing route, to Liberty Peak, is prone to slides and considered relatively difficult.
The six climbers two guides and four clients from Seattle-based Alpine Ascents International were last heard from at 6 p.m. Wednesday by satellite phone. At that time the party was at 12,800 feet with plans to camp overnight.
When they failed to return Friday as planned, the company contacted park rangers. Alpine Ascents is the company that lost five Sherpas at Mount Everest this spring.
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But that was before Bob learned not to practice chipping, downrange at the driving range.
...or at least build a road to the top...
Then according to you and folks like you here on FR, just getting out of bed could be classified as “stupid”, driving a car, walking across the street, etc.
Life is fraught with risk...the difference is in how we choose to face it. What the circumstances are when we choose to undertake the challenge of facing the risks, the preparation, etc.
In taking 15 year olds up to Mt. Whitney, I guess according to your understanding, it’s “stupid”. The Scouts should not learn how to prepare, how to undertake the effort and in closing, summit the mountain. To bask in the satisfaction of having done all that they could in order to accomplish something.
I mean it’s not like they’re learning anything in the process, is it?
Life is a journey and if climbing a mountain is part of one man’s journey, then it’s living...it’s not existing.
You guys are an encouragement...
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