Steve Cramer wrote: >Remember the guy who called home while dying on Everest? Didn't do him >much good, though, did it? >Steve Actually, Rob Hall was in radio communications with his base camp. They realized that the situation had gotten very bad, and they patched him through to his wife so that he could say his final goodbye. He was an experienced mountaineer and guide and knew the risks of an Everest climb. No, it didn't get him rescued, but I'm sure that conversation was priceless to his wife. I don't think the intention of that call was to say, "Honey, I'm in a bad way, could you please contact the Coast Guard for me?" Shawn 0 ____©/______ ~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^\ ,/ /~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^ Baker Brothers 0 Brews & Boats http://www.missoulaconcrete.com/shawn/ Shawn W. Baker mailto://baker_at_montana.com *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Tue Aug 10 1999 - 08:37:28 PDT
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