Sunnyside_up Posted August 19, 2006 Share Posted August 19, 2006 http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Dead_mountaineer_found_after_seventeen_years August 19, 2006 Mont Blanc, in the Alps, is the highest mountain in Western Europe.The body of Mike Seavers, a mountaineer who died in a climbing accident in the French Alps, has been found after seventeen years. The 31 year-old, who lived in Bristol, was scaling Mont Blanc with a climbing party when they got caught up in a fierce storm. He was found alongside a German member of the party in a melting glacier which preserved their bodies, according to Nick Cotton from the British Mountaineering Council. “They may have gone inside a crevasse to take cover and got covered, possibly by an avalanche or snowfall. Glaciers are flowing things. They move at an imperceptible speed and anything travels with it encased in ice. When they get to a point where the glacier melts, things appear,” he said. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G-spotter Posted August 20, 2006 Share Posted August 20, 2006 Was he wearing West Pole Brand clothing? I heard that stuff is super durable. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fear_and_greed Posted August 20, 2006 Share Posted August 20, 2006 Was he wearing West Pole Brand clothing? I heard that stuff is super durable. What an unbelievably tastless and crass comment. Grow up and confine your inane ramblings to spray. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G-spotter Posted August 20, 2006 Share Posted August 20, 2006 I bet neither of their boots fit the rescue team either. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mos_Chillin Posted August 20, 2006 Share Posted August 20, 2006 Irreverance has it's place in the world...is it here? Hmmmm.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bigtree Posted August 22, 2006 Share Posted August 22, 2006 I bet neither of their boots fit the rescue team either. I appreciate the humour for what its worth G-spotter...keep it up mate. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
catbirdseat Posted August 22, 2006 Share Posted August 22, 2006 Isn't Dru's comment a reference to an old story about two Yosemite climbers who on encountering the dead body of a climber who had fallen a couple weeks before, one said to the other, "his jacket doesn't fit". I think one of the guys was Chouinard. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sk Posted August 22, 2006 Share Posted August 22, 2006 Irreverance has it's place in the world...is it here? Hmmmm.... are we on cc.com? irreverence does have a time and a place. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
catbirdseat Posted August 22, 2006 Share Posted August 22, 2006 I think that the point of that story to which I refer is that the discovery of the body had made them both very uncomfortable, because it reminded them of their own mortality. The comment was gallows humor, an attempt to break the tension. The men were criticized for it after others took the story out of context. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sk Posted August 22, 2006 Share Posted August 22, 2006 I think that the point of that story to which I refer is that the discovery of the body had made them both very uncomfortable, because it reminded them of their own mortality. The comment was gallows humor, an attempt to break the tension. The men were criticized for it after others took the story out of context. what else are you going to do when you come across a body and you are already 20 piches up??? as climbers we face our mortality more often then most and i think it gives us the right to find humor in the fact that we too may pass anytime now. i think we all try to show some ammount of class when someone posts a recent accident or posts about someone they know passing. this is long past and half a world away. let us have out moment of it not being personal for once. i for one am greatful it is not anyone i know and that this accident was long ago mourned. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MisterMo Posted August 23, 2006 Share Posted August 23, 2006 Isn't Dru's comment a reference to an old story about two Yosemite climbers who on encountering the dead body of a climber who had fallen a couple weeks before, one said to the other, "his jacket doesn't fit". I think one of the guys was Chouinard. The comment was attributed to Steve Roper, who, by some accounts, also retrieved the victim's jawbone and unwisely displayed it in the lodge coffee shop. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G-spotter Posted August 23, 2006 Share Posted August 23, 2006 Yeah but none of you guys know what West Pole Brand is do you? At least Messner didn't show up and rip this frozen corpse's genitals off like he did with Otzi. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMessner Posted August 23, 2006 Share Posted August 23, 2006 This is baseless slander and you know it. I had nothing to do with the missing genitals. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dechristo Posted August 23, 2006 Share Posted August 23, 2006 were jonesin' for some mountain oysters, were ya? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mos_Chillin Posted August 23, 2006 Share Posted August 23, 2006 frozen Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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