Sunday, June 1, 2014

Entry # 16 - June 1 2014

Bodies of 6 Mount Rainier climbers may not be recovered

Oscar Qi
June 1 2014
CBC news: http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/bodies-of-6-mount-rainier-climbers-may-not-be-recovered-1.2661257


This photo provided by the National Parks Service, shows the Liberty Ridge Area of Mount Rainier as viewed from the Carbon Glacier, Saturday, May 31, 2014, in Washington state. Six climbers reported missing on Mount Rainier are now presumed dead.There are 6 people who went to climb Mount Rainer and likely fall down from 1000 meters high and likely they were died and buried. But sadly, there is no way to find their bodies, because at that altitude and conditions, it’s not worth to put another’s person’s life in danger to hopefully find anyone alive down there. They received some signal from the equipment of the climbers. But it’s unclear what were they doing during the accident. An avalanche or a rock fall may cause them to fall. The signal is coming from under snow, which means that they are buried under the ground. This makes the recovery of the bodies even more difficult. This mountain is a very dangerous mountain; many climbers have lost their lives during way to the top.

 

This is very sad, my dad has a friend who actually was a very famous mountain climber, and fell to his death during a mountain climbing event. It was supposed to be an easy and relaxing one, however, he took it too lightly, and he fell to his death. Now, there is 6 people repeated what my dad’s friend did again. They tried to climb to this dangerous mountain with the most challenging route, and got themselves killed.  My dad loves mountain climbing as well, and he said it’s worth it to climb and challenge himself even with the risk of life. Actually I don’t care about what challenging and what the meaning of life that he’s talking about, all I care about is that whatever he do is good for the family.

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