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http://www.sacbee.com/2011/01/30/3362727/death-by-gps-in-desert.html#storylink=scinlineshare



Five harrowing days after becoming stuck on a remote backcountry road in Death Valley National Park in August 2009, Alicia Sanchez lay down next to her Jeep Cherokee and prepared to die.

Then she heard a voice.

"I called as I approached, asking if she was okay," wrote Ranger Amber Nattrass in a park report. "She was waving frantically and screaming, 'My baby is dead, my baby is dead.' "

In the SUV, Nattrass found Sanchez's lifeless 6-year-old son Carlos on the front seat. "She told me they walked 10 miles but couldn't find any help (and) … had run out of water and had been drinking their own urine," Nattrass wrote.

"She turned down a wrong road," Nattrass said in a recent interview. "She said she was following her GPS unit."



Read more: http://www.sacbee.com/2011/01/30/3362727/death-by-gps-in-desert.html#ixzz1DUSxnMAe
 
Peregrinator said:
http://www.sacbee.com/2011/01/30/3362727/death-by-gps-in-desert.html#storylink=scinlineshare



Five harrowing days after becoming stuck on a remote backcountry road in Death Valley National Park in August 2009, Alicia Sanchez lay down next to her Jeep Cherokee and prepared to die.

Then she heard a voice.

"I called as I approached, asking if she was okay," wrote Ranger Amber Nattrass in a park report. "She was waving frantically and screaming, 'My baby is dead, my baby is dead.' "

In the SUV, Nattrass found Sanchez's lifeless 6-year-old son Carlos on the front seat. "She told me they walked 10 miles but couldn't find any help (and) … had run out of water and had been drinking their own urine," Nattrass wrote.

"She turned down a wrong road," Nattrass said in a recent interview. "She said she was following her GPS unit."



Read more: http://www.sacbee.com/2011/01/30/3362727/death-by-gps-in-desert.html#ixzz1DUSxnMAe
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Sad, but just so damn stupid at the same time.
 
thør said:
That might be worth stealing......

but then, who could you show it to?
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It was sitting in a dusty corner the first time I saw it. The pres said t was like a club joke..."Can we use this, or was it Washburn's?" Now it hangs above a dead fountain in the wall. Think I have a pic here somewhere...
 
Contains some disturbing images, so be warned.

Abandoned on Everest

But in the words of David Brashears, five time summiteer of Everest, "there had been nothing in my training to prepare me to pass through the open graveyard waiting above."
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An area along the northeast route to the summit has earned the unassuming nickname of "Rainbow Valley", simply because of the multicolored down jackets of the numerous corpses littering the hillside.
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Christine is attempting to be the first woman to scale Denali in "winter". Artur, her climbing partner has done it before.

Winter McKinley Expedition update: The team woke to a chilly –46 degree temperatures this morning with minimal wind. Yesterday was exhausting and a lot of hard work. However, the team was able to make a snow cave just below the last big slope on Windy Corner. Today, if all goes well, the team may carry supplies up to 13,500 feet.

They update on Facebook at "Winter-McKinley"
 
anyone not familiar with mts who followed the Yukon Quest this year now understands that even a 2000 ft summit can quickly raise it's head
 
coastal-boy said:
anyone not familiar with mts who followed the Yukon Quest this year now understands that even a 2000 ft summit can quickly raise it's head
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I have not been a good YQ groupie this year. It's one tough race. Most years, it's tougher than the Iditarod.
 
thør said:
I have not been a good YQ groupie this year. It's one tough race. Most years, it's tougher than the Iditarod.
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the first half was amazingly fast. Everyone talked about records being shattered. Then came winds and piles of snow on both American and Eagle summits, which was separated by extreme overflows (up to 6 ft deep). It literally shredded the field. Although there was no human life lost, there was sadly too much life lost. Some of the best mushers in the world were brought to their knees and they have openly stated they thought they were going to die. It speaks worlds about the rescue/support staff being able to get to them.

edit: it also speaks worlds about the mushers being required to carry the gps units with panic/help buttons...it saved many lives over the last 3 days
 
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coastal-boy said:
the first half was amazingly fast. Everyone talked about records being shattered. Then came winds and piles of snow on both American and Eagle summits, which was separated by extreme overflows (up to 6 ft deep). It literally shredded the field. Although there was no human life lost, there was sadly too much life lost. Some of the best mushers in the world were brought to their knees and they have openly stated they thought they were going to die. It speaks worlds about the rescue/support staff being able to get to them.

edit: it also speaks worlds about the mushers being required to carry the gps units with panic/help buttons...it saved many lives over the last 3 days
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February in interior Alaska is typically a brutal SOB. And that's the type of race the Quest is. If it would have been the Iditarod, folks would be bitching that the trailbreakers weren't doing their job (although most are volunteers).
 
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