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skinner
Feb 9, 2008, 5:56 PM
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Missing climber identified
pistehors.com wrote: "The remains of a climber, frozen in ice, along with a crampon were discovered in September 2007 on the Tré la Tête glacier at around 3000 meters altitude and started the High Mountain Police in Chamonix (PGHM) on a long quest to discover his identity..." Read More |
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redsox5945
Feb 9, 2008, 6:20 PM
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Wow. With the amount of traffic that Chamoix receives, its amazing that so many people can just vanish.
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austin.timm
Feb 9, 2008, 7:29 PM
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redsox5945 wrote: Wow. With the amount of traffic that Chamoix receives, its amazing that so many people can just vanish.
those mountains are damn big though and they tend to swallow people up. it happens in america too... all it takes is an unroped crevasse fall during a storm and then the body gets covered up by fresh snow to be entombed forever, or until melt out.
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coastal_climber
Feb 11, 2008, 4:54 AM
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austin.timm wrote: redsox5945 wrote: Wow. With the amount of traffic that Chamoix receives, its amazing that so many people can just vanish. those mountains are damn big though and they tend to swallow people up. it happens in america too... all it takes is an unroped crevasse fall during a storm and then the body gets covered up by fresh snow to be entombed forever, or until melt out.
Or global warming.
>Cam
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