[at-l] Movie: "Into the Void"

[janl2 at mindspring.com (Jan Leitschuh)]

Read it and weep.
;-)

That was part of the movie's fascination, the urgency of devastatingly 
hard calls that were needing to be made. I'll bet the book delves even 
deeper.

ReservingJudgementShoe


Slyatpct@aol.com wrote:

> In a message dated 6/13/2004 9:49:19 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
> janl2@mindspring.com writes:
> 
>> His healthy partner, who
>> was dehydrated, exhausted and freezing to death on the top belay in
>> the minus eighty degree wind chills, has no idea why his partner won't
>> take his weight off the rope so he can climb down.
> 
> 
> <snip>
> 
> Dehydrated, exhausted and freezing to death is NOT healthy.  Under the 
> circumstances I don't think he had any other choice BUT to cut his 
> partner free.
> 
> Sly

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