Monday, June 05, 2006
Whew ! I made it! Trying to access the site for a while now. Every time I tried to get in, the site was down. Or was I being blocked for not behaving myself (again)? Only magoo knows the truth....
Hard to type today...sliced off the tip of my finger pruning shrubs yesterday. (Good thing I wasn't using the electric hedge trimmer at the time!) I am SO not domestic! I need to stay in the backcountry where I don't hurt myself!
Read a full page article in yesterday's newspaper about how this has been the most lethal year on Everest since 96; how folks don't even bother with rescues. Is it because they're not thinking right in the death zone or it is because they don't want to risk their $40K summits? EV was interviewed for the article, and tried to be very diplomatic about it all. Wowie, though...seems to me that the ethics of the hard-core climbing contingent has been diluted by the novices and the entrepreneurial spirit of the guide companies.
http://www.latimes.com/sports/la-sp-everest1jun01,1,907217.story?ctrack=1&cset=true
(Has this been discussed? I hadn't seen this years' death rate/rescues mentioned. If I'm repeating, my apologies. I'll blame it on the blood loss from my tragic landscaping accident yesterday!)
Hard to type today...sliced off the tip of my finger pruning shrubs yesterday. (Good thing I wasn't using the electric hedge trimmer at the time!) I am SO not domestic! I need to stay in the backcountry where I don't hurt myself!
Read a full page article in yesterday's newspaper about how this has been the most lethal year on Everest since 96; how folks don't even bother with rescues. Is it because they're not thinking right in the death zone or it is because they don't want to risk their $40K summits? EV was interviewed for the article, and tried to be very diplomatic about it all. Wowie, though...seems to me that the ethics of the hard-core climbing contingent has been diluted by the novices and the entrepreneurial spirit of the guide companies.
http://www.latimes.com/sports/la-sp-everest1jun01,1,907217.story?ctrack=1&cset=true
(Has this been discussed? I hadn't seen this years' death rate/rescues mentioned. If I'm repeating, my apologies. I'll blame it on the blood loss from my tragic landscaping accident yesterday!)
