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

[kdpo at pacbell.net (Ken Powers)]

 Just a philosophical question. Cutting the rope may have been the right
thing to do, but do you want to climb with him now that he knows it is ok to
cut the rope.

Ken
actually I think he did the right thing
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jim Bullard" <jbullar1@twcny.rr.com>
To: <DTimm65344@aol.com>; <janl2@mindspring.com>; <Slyatpct@aol.com>
Cc: <at-l@mailman.backcountry.net>
Sent: Tuesday, June 15, 2004 5:03 AM
Subject: Re: [at-l] Movie: "Into the Void"


> At 08:30 PM 6/14/2004 -0400, DTimm65344@aol.com wrote:
> >In a message dated 6/14/2004 8:06:01 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
> >janl2@mindspring.com writes:
> >
> > > 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.
> >
> >NBC covered this when the movie first came out.  They spoke with a number
> >of climbers (including one or maybe both of these guys) and all of them
> >said the move was the right one and that most people couldn't have made
> >the call and most people would have died.
>
> Didn't someone comment previously that the guy who cut the rope "lost his
> reputation" in the climbing community for doing it? If they all think it
> was the right thing to do under the circumstances, why the scorn over
doing
> what they believe was the right thing to do?
>
>
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