Everest Iron Man

[SkiDog]

this guy is the man for sure....

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/4774989.stm

if this was previously posted I apologize...

M

 

[JimG.]

this guy is the man for sure....

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/4774989.stm

if this was previously posted I apologize...

M

An overcomer...these are the folks in life who have earned my highest regard and respect.

 

[una_dogger]

TRULY inspiring..thanks for posting.

 

[ski_resort_observer]

Wow, truly amazing. All the people who attempt this kind of thing have my complete admiration.

On a local note, my neighbor Bill Yeo and his partner John Bagnula just got back from an attempt to become the first Mainers to scale Everest. Bill turned back 2000 from the summit as he starting to cough up blood, a hard but wise decision. Bagnula hooked up with a Vermont climber and reached the summit at 7:30 AM on May 10th. They spoke of seeing at least 12 bodies frozen in time on that last 2000 ft.

 

[ALLSKIING]

I posted this a few weeks ago...
http://forums.alpinezone.com/8576-meathead-dave-watson-does-again.html

 

[ALLSKIING]

Wow, truly amazing. All the people who attempt this kind of thing have my complete admiration.

On a local note, my neighbor Bill Yeo and his partner John Bagnula just got back from an attempt to become the first Mainers to scale Everest. Bill turned back 2000 from the summit as he starting to cough up blood, a hard but wise decision. Bagnula hooked up with a Vermont climber and reached the summit at 7:30 AM on May 10th. They spoke of seeing at least 12 bodies frozen in time on that last 2000 ft.

Could your neighbor have hooked up with Dave? They were at the summit the same day.

 

[ALLSKIING]

Yep the vermont climber was Dave.
http://www.everestnews.com/everest2006/thebigsummitpush05102006.htm

 

[ALLSKIING]

This is camp 1 on Everest..I wonder what camp 3 looks like?

 

[SkiDog]

This is camp 1 on Everest..I wonder what camp 3 looks like?

Yeah thats camp 1..but NOT base camp...base camp is HUGE....and nasty looking...

How bout camp 4??? In the "death zone".

M

 

[SkiDog]

Unfortunate Follow Up

I don't exactly know how I feel about this situation, but I figured since I put up the origianl article I might as well follow up with this one as well...

thoughts??

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/5016536.stm

M

 

[ALLSKIING]

I don't exactly know how I feel about this situation, but I figured since I put up the origianl article I might as well follow up with this one as well...

thoughts??

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/5016536.stm

M

This started in the Misc forum.

http://forums.alpinezone.com/8735-nobody-stops-help-dying-man.html

 

[Greg]

I don't exactly know how I feel about this situation, but I figured since I put up the origianl article I might as well follow up with this one as well...

thoughts??

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/5016536.stm

M

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