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Old 29th May 2005, 17:22
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B Sousa
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"I hope mountaineers see this as a very postive thing for they´r sport since now perhaps it will be possible to rescue people from the mountain instead of leaving hurt or sick people for dead, since they´r fellow climbers are to weak to do anything except get themself to safety."

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Whoa...hold on a minute. I think this is way off base. Im betting that if the guy added a snowball from the top he would have been overgross. Movements etc were probably done very gently versus hanging, one skid in the snow and dumping three hundred pounds of idiot climber in the side door.
Dont give these rich "explorers" any reason to go out and kill more than they have already, just so they can be in National Geographic in a couple hundred years when they are found.
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