Beyond the everest.
Just realised i haven't blog for quite some time. Booked out this week, had been quite a long one, lectures and lectures and lectures, other than that there was not much physical activity.
Today basically stayed at home to watch some tv, and more importantly to watch the last episode of Discovery Channel Beyond the Everest. The actual filming of the whole expedition was quite amazing. Going up the mountain itself is already very dangerous, and you have to do some filming at the same time.
There was quite alot of drama during the climb, especially when the team was nearing the summit. Clearly there was no time left, and the climbers who haven't reached the summit still insist to go on despite the continuous pleas of the leader who told them they do not have enough oxygen left.
In the end they were persuaded to come down, but they wasted alot of time and energy in the process, which jeopardise the safety of other climbers and the sherpas that were looking after them. I don't know about them, but i would definitely not ignore orders and risk the safety of everyone just because of my dreams or whatsoever. We are talking about many lives here.
Then the first guy was on his way back down, then he saw this guy shivering on a rock, without oxygen left, and nobody to help him. He wanted to help, but he can't, at that height they need alot of people to bring this guy to safety. He was then told to move on, which means leave that guy to die on the mountains.
It's quite heart wrecking, when you see a person waiting to die, and you know you cannot do anything to help him, unless you have a gun then maybe can consider the option of ending his life in a faster and easier way. Haiz i wonder how that person felt laying there, knowing that the next breath he take might be his last.
This was bothering me the whole day, oh well, back to camp...
Today basically stayed at home to watch some tv, and more importantly to watch the last episode of Discovery Channel Beyond the Everest. The actual filming of the whole expedition was quite amazing. Going up the mountain itself is already very dangerous, and you have to do some filming at the same time.
There was quite alot of drama during the climb, especially when the team was nearing the summit. Clearly there was no time left, and the climbers who haven't reached the summit still insist to go on despite the continuous pleas of the leader who told them they do not have enough oxygen left.
In the end they were persuaded to come down, but they wasted alot of time and energy in the process, which jeopardise the safety of other climbers and the sherpas that were looking after them. I don't know about them, but i would definitely not ignore orders and risk the safety of everyone just because of my dreams or whatsoever. We are talking about many lives here.
Then the first guy was on his way back down, then he saw this guy shivering on a rock, without oxygen left, and nobody to help him. He wanted to help, but he can't, at that height they need alot of people to bring this guy to safety. He was then told to move on, which means leave that guy to die on the mountains.
It's quite heart wrecking, when you see a person waiting to die, and you know you cannot do anything to help him, unless you have a gun then maybe can consider the option of ending his life in a faster and easier way. Haiz i wonder how that person felt laying there, knowing that the next breath he take might be his last.
This was bothering me the whole day, oh well, back to camp...
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