You're in my way buddie!!!!

[moe75]

Anybody ever read Jon Krakaur's "Into Thin Air"? I bet the 40 people who passed by the Englishman Sharp to attain utter glory never flipped a page.

Read all about it here (http://www.cbc.ca/story/canada/national/2006/05/27/everest-rescue.html)

Krakaur described a lot of the same behaviour in his book. These people paid their f***ing 60 grand, and by god they're going to the top, and no one, I mean No one is getting in their way.

It makes you want to puke.

[Dee]

That is unbelievable Moe. I guess getting to the top of a rock is more important than the life of a fellow human being. Yeesh!

Kudos to Andrew Brash. He might have abandoned his moment of glory, but to me he is worth a thousand of those other fools who left a man for dead on the side of a mountain.

[moe75]

Kudos to Andrew Brash. He might have abandoned his moment of glory, but to me he is worth a thousand of those other fools who left a man for dead on the side of a mountain.

Yes, he did the right thing for sure Dee. One of the most memorable "characters" in Krakaur's book was a Sandy something who was notorious for bringing the most ridiculously inappropriate things to the top of the mountain. She later found about Krakaur's intention of writing a book and threatened to sue him if he misrepresented her. His depiction of her was so well drawn that you could read between the lines.

I saw Sir Edmund Hillary comment on the recent episode a few nights ago on the CBC. He was appalled. Here's a man who with a single Sherpa guide and minimum oxygen made it to the top 53 years ago sans laptop, sans portable refridgerator and sans satellite navigation equipment.

Sometimes I wonder if we've lost the capacity sometimes to feel shame...
:mad:

[Dee]

Granted Moe, a certain amount of selfishness is in all of us, but, to walk over (so to speak) a dying man is entering into the realm of cold-blooded stupidity

[snakegrl]

What goes 'round, comes 'round...