And there are the stories of climbers who made the gut Tag Heuer replica watches wrenchingdecision to turn around. Wendy Booker, a climber with MS, made it tocamp 2 before she felt that it was enough. Robert Hill with IBD stoppedat the South Summit and celebrated his victory. TA Loeffler, on hersecond try, finally was forced to yield to a continuing illness thatstole her energy and drive. She made it to C3.To fully appreciate what climbing Everest entails, two summit day blogs from this season are must reads. First from Geordie Stewarts and his north climb. It is painful in its honesty and result. The second is from a south climb and Patrick Hollingworth. Well written and descriptive to a fault. Well done to both of these climbers and thank you for bringing us along.
And there are literally hundreds more stories like these.Death and RescuesEverest, even in a relatively mild year, showed her dark side withmultiple deaths and scores of injuries. Most were not and will not bereported to keep the guides Bell & Ross replica watches reputations clean and the climbersjudgment untainted. However, it is clear the early and late summitpushes resulted in many cases of serious frostbite and rescues. Thedetails were mostly revealed on individual climbers websites anddownplayed, if mentioned at all, on their teams sites.I would encourage more transparency because I believe each incidentis a learning experience and that potential clients should have accessto the history of a guide service, including the incidents.
How elsecan you make a well-informed decision as to who to spend tens ofthousands of dollars with and to trust with your life?With this in mind, props to Bonita Norris who discussed openly herrescue as she was descending. She hit her head in a Rolex Datejusts replica watches fall and wasliterally drug to the South Col. Her guide, Kenton Cool, made a casualmention of this on his site.A hat tip to guide Phil Crampton of Altitude Junkies who describedin detail the dramatic rescue of his client Mike. Without a doubt, hesaved Mikes life according to other climbers who were there by hisside over those days. Mike was evacuated from C2 via helicopter.Helicopter flights seemed to be the norm from the south Base Campbringing sharp criticism from the Doctors at EverestEr that they wereoverused and could contribute to a false sense of security andencourage risks.And the deaths. There were 4 on the north and one on Lhotse. SummitClimb saw two members die.
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