Bag's Rants

A risky business mountain climbing.

After the articles on the climber and the flak he has been getting for leaving someone to die on Everest it seems like another couple of guys have died or been at risk there. Read more here. With two on this one expedition so I'd be concerned when expedition leader Alexander Abramov said 'Come with me. It'll be OK'.

I was confused to read 'Another member of the climb, German Thomas Weber, died shortly before reaching the summit' Err. before reaching the summit? To me that means he reached the summit after he died. Does this make the climb a success?

From what I can gather it seems Everest is now more crowded that Piccadilly Circus on a busy night. With a row of bodies alongside the path and people apparently keeling over every time they see a space. Bit like Germans looking for a sunbed in Spain except this time they really don't leave at the end of the week.

If Everest was in the UK this sort of thing would never happen. Nope. We would prosecute anyone left alive and have them in court tied up for months so anyone else would be scared to give it a go as a team. Although after the first, while the court cases were being prepared, we would have the place cordoned off and ban any sort of climbing within two miles. We are good at that. Can't do anything constructive but we can stop and ban better than anyone else in the world.

posted by Bag @ 5:44 pm