Off_White Posted July 9, 2007 Share Posted July 9, 2007 That's good to hear, but I'm still dreading having the climber named. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sk Posted July 9, 2007 Share Posted July 9, 2007 He went off on Friday to do the fieldwork (couple of months in the interior of BC) for this thesis...so it is very unlikely to be Dru. Â I sure hope you are right. i have been trying to maintain over here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmace Posted July 10, 2007 Share Posted July 10, 2007 1) drew is gone 100% 2) drew just posted that the route is not in condition  http://www.cascadeclimbers.com/forum/ubbthreads.php/ubb/showflat/Number/699237/page/1/fpart/2  Keep in mind that most rock routes and especially N face rock routes in bc backcountry are still very snowy.  Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lisa_D Posted July 10, 2007 Share Posted July 10, 2007 condolences to family, friends, and his climbing partner. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snoboy Posted July 10, 2007 Share Posted July 10, 2007 Dru's from Chilliwack not Abbortsford. Â Yeah, and the media is really accurate about that sort of thing... However Dru is also older than 31, AFAIK. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dru Posted July 10, 2007 Share Posted July 10, 2007 I can confirm I'm not dead. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CascadeClimber Posted July 10, 2007 Share Posted July 10, 2007 (edited) nevermind Edited July 10, 2007 by CascadeClimber Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
murraysovereign Posted July 10, 2007 Author Share Posted July 10, 2007 Thank you Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sk Posted July 10, 2007 Share Posted July 10, 2007 I can confirm I'm not dead. Â Â Â Big HUGS Â Â Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snoboy Posted July 10, 2007 Share Posted July 10, 2007 yay! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TREETOAD Posted July 10, 2007 Share Posted July 10, 2007 Good stuff, definitely some concern there. Very sad day for others though. Â Â Â Â Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ryland_moore Posted July 11, 2007 Share Posted July 11, 2007 Any new updates? Prayers go out to family and friends... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
murraysovereign Posted July 11, 2007 Author Share Posted July 11, 2007 Last I saw was a news item concluding with "The names of the climbers will not be released." Presumably at the request of the families. Still, you'd think the climbers' grapevine would know who was involved... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zeroforhire Posted July 12, 2007 Share Posted July 12, 2007 wow. This is hard... condolences to the family and climbing partner during this tragic time. Â be careful out there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rob Posted July 12, 2007 Share Posted July 12, 2007 Last I saw was a news item concluding with "The names of the climbers will not be released." Presumably at the request of the families. Still, you'd think the climbers' grapevine would know who was involved... Â If you knew who it was, and the family requested that you not tell anyone, would you? Â Condolences. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greta Posted July 12, 2007 Share Posted July 12, 2007 Last I saw was a news item concluding with "The names of the climbers will not be released." Presumably at the request of the families. Still, you'd think the climbers' grapevine would know who was involved... Â If you knew who it was, and the family requested that you not tell anyone, would you? Â Condolences. Â Ive always assumed that mainly applied to the media. I cant imagine why family would specifically ask friends not to tell other friends. Im suprised the names have been kept under wraps this long. Im having a hard time coming up with a reason why I would specifically ask that the name of my dad or kid not be released to the general public. Â Best wishes to the family either way. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TREETOAD Posted July 12, 2007 Share Posted July 12, 2007 Interesting point  Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
murraysovereign Posted July 13, 2007 Author Share Posted July 13, 2007 I spoke today with someone who has been involved with the planning for a recovery effort. Apparently the victim is a foreign national who was resident in Abbotsford. There has been involvement by very senior RCMP, and they are keeping a tight lid on information. So there seems to be an international relations angle to this that may explain why so little information is being released. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TREETOAD Posted July 16, 2007 Share Posted July 16, 2007 Thanks for the update. Pretty strange to be sure. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jordop Posted September 26, 2007 Share Posted September 26, 2007 In today's rags: http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/story.html?id=3dd1407d-6445-49d4-ad9b-66ea9a35d7ba&k=43470 Â Body of missing climber recovered Chantal Eustace, Vancouver Sun Published: Tuesday, September 25, 2007 The body of missing climber was recovered from Mount Slesse in Chilliwack this week, close to the spot where he fell into an icy crevasse during a climbing accident in July. Â Sertac Olgun, 31, a Turkish student living in the Abbotsford area, was hit by falling ice while climbing with a friend on July 7, said Upper Fraser Valley RCMP spokeswoman Const. Lea-Anne Dunlop, in a media release today. Â When his friend could not locate Olgun, he hiked five hours to locate help, Dunlop said. Â Members of the Provincial Emergency Program determined the chance of Olgun's survival to be unlikely, she said, after a rescue team surveyed the area of the incident using a helicopter. Two days later, they determined that even a recovery mission was too dangerous. Â "Recovery was delayed in order to perform a safe extraction, and was made possible by snow melt," said Dunlop. Â Chilliwack Search and Rescue recovered Olgun's body on Sept. 19 - about 300 metres from the scene. Â Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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