| Welcome to The New Coffee Room. We hope you enjoy your visit. You're currently viewing our forum as a guest. This means you are limited to certain areas of the board and there are some features you can't use. If you join our community, you'll be able to access member-only sections, and use many member-only features such as customizing your profile, sending personal messages, and voting in polls. Registration is simple, fast, and completely free. Join our community! If you're already a member please log in to your account to access all of our features: |
| Mount Everest; deja vu | |
|---|---|
| Tweet Topic Started: Jun 9 2006, 10:22 AM (151 Views) | |
| big al | Jun 9 2006, 10:22 AM Post #1 |
|
Bull-Carp
|
Different outcome this time though. U.S. climber quits Everest ascent for rescue Big Al |
|
Location: Western PA "jesu, der simcha fun der man's farlangen." -bachophile | |
![]() |
|
| ivorythumper | Jun 9 2006, 10:43 AM Post #2 |
|
I am so adjective that I verb nouns!
|
That made my day! |
| The dogma lives loudly within me. | |
![]() |
|
| BeeLady | Jun 9 2006, 11:12 AM Post #3 |
|
Middle Aged Carp
|
I don't expect we will hear the media cover this story as extensively as they have the first.Hat's off to a man with a conscience and his head on straight.... “Oh yeah, it was worth it,” he said. “You can always go back to the summit but you only have one life to live. If we had left the man to die, that would have always been on my mind ... How could you live with yourself?” |
|
"My wheel shall sing responsive to my tread, And I will spin so fine, so strong a thread Fate shall not cut it, nor Time's forces break" "Distaff and Spindle: Sonnets by Mary Ashley Townsend" 1895 | |
![]() |
|
| ***musical princess*** | Jun 9 2006, 11:24 AM Post #4 |
|
HOLY CARP!!!
|
That's EXACTLY what i was tryong to explain in the other thread we had about this. x |
| x Caroline x | |
![]() |
|
| Aqua Letifer | Jun 9 2006, 11:33 AM Post #5 |
|
ZOOOOOM!
|
Well not to beat a dead horse, but climbing Everest isn't like taking a walk to your mailbox. It's not at all fair to judge the inaction of that other climber since it is far from certain how much control he would have had. If he had acted, that may have meant his own death as well. I'm glad this man did what he did, but I don't think we're in any position to judge what happened previously as none of us will ever know the full circumstances. |
| I cite irreconcilable differences. | |
![]() |
|
| The 89th Key | Jun 9 2006, 11:36 AM Post #6 |
|
Very nice! Like I was saying before, if there's something you can do, then do it. ![]() Aqua, I agree. |
![]() |
|
| « Previous Topic · The New Coffee Room · Next Topic » |







4:51 PM Jul 10