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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Wow, tragedy, exclamation point!

We make better decisions and are better people. Smug smile.

FAFO, the tension builds…

They’re rich, white, privileged women and bad things happened to them…yes, yes, right there, oh yeahhhhh![/quote]

It's not being smug to realize it actually doesn't take much of a brain to review weather reports before traveling and think perhaps best to not go back country skiing when the probability of major snowfall and avalanches have been predicted for a week in an area known for heavy, dangerous snowfalls.  Even more important to use sound judgment when you have young children. [/quote]

Unf the whole situation is congruent with that high death rate Everest year in 1998 or wherever.

The cyclone storm was on radar for coming and a bunch of people decided to still go for it during a short window. Some refused to turn back at the magic 2pm afternoon time to make it down safely in a normal day and got caught so high up no help could come until next day light.

One group aborted and didn’t try to summit. They all lived.

Half of another group went quickly, made it down.

Another group coddled some slow people and half got caught near the summit, below the summit, and that texas guy somehow made it to a small high up base camp.

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I believe the Texas guy was a surgeon who lost both his hands due to frost bite. A costly error.[/quote]

^ Responding my myself b/c I wanted to get it right. He was a pathologist who lost 1 hand and fingers from the other. But the interesting thing about him is after this disaster he turned his life around and no longer sought out extreme adventures. He instead prioritized his family and fixed broken relationships. That is the part that normal people can't relate to. These people actually do have messed up priorities and different values but it takes a near death experience for them to re-evaluate things.[/quote]

I don't know if it was the same year but the one that got me was the guy who died on Everest who was still able to call and talk to his wife about it as he was dying.

What do you say.  Really.  I do not understand these people.  They're not even pioneers.  Thousands have done it.[/quote]
Rob Hall, the founder of the Adventure Consultants company in New Zealand. He was under pressure to establish his business and died alongside his friend Scott Fischer, who was a veteran mountaineer and founder of the Mountain Madness climbing outfit. [/quote]

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