Two climbers killed on Happo

6 replies

5 January, 2009 - 12:16

Shingen

Joined: 31 Jul 2008

Posts: 78

You might have seen or heard the helis in town yesterday. There was a great big one flying very low.

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D95GAI4O1&show_article=1

Fwiw, the Japanese Communist party are not communists as any English speaker would understand it, and are progressives with well defined policies. You mightn't agree with them, but they have a particular moral position, not just vacuous slogans, celebrities, and "yoroshiku onegai shimasu".

RIP Comrades.

6 January, 2009 - 09:24

boardingfool

Joined: 9 Sep 2008

Posts: 139

Yeah I saw the heli fly over

Yeah I saw the heli fly over as I was at rapies and read the story later. Not that high up either, only 2080 meters.

6 January, 2009 - 09:37

Joined: 7 Jun 2008

Posts: 733

I wonder how they died?

I wonder how they died? Both so close to each other and up on the ridge near the lake... my guess is overcome by wind and cold.

6 January, 2009 - 16:44

Shingen

Joined: 31 Jul 2008

Posts: 78

I dunno about this case, but

I dunno about this case, but one thing that can happen is the ol' tent (zelt if its autumn) gets blown away. If the magazines and mountaineering clubs can't stop folk taking on the weather in winter, maybe they could at least tell them the how and why of snow caves.

We were away over New Year but I guess it must have been pretty hairy. There are three completely uprooted trees near our house. Your all-too-typical unthinned spindley sugis, close to fifty foot high, but only ten inches or so in diameter. There's little snow on the ground, so it must have been the wind.

6 January, 2009 - 17:15