I also read he had to actually snap the bone himself. Hard to imagine . . . I suspect most people would simply have died, even if the idea had occurred to them.
>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 08/30/03 11:47AM >>> He had to do the job with a pen knife. Perhaps a handy folding knife with a partially serrated blade would be good. Buck makes a light weight one with a carbineer like part that can be clipped on just about anywhere. Regards, Bob... -------------------------------------------- "Do not suppose that abuses are eliminated by destroying the object which is abused. Men can go wrong with wine and women. Shall we then prohibit and abolish women?" -Martin Luther From: "Steve Desjardins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I can certainly see the uses for stuff like codeine/morphine on a > serious expedition. I had just interpreted the original request as the > level of a hiking or camping trip through the national parks, so that > such "luxuries" would be a little hard to come by. Although I guess if > you look at that guy who cut off his own arm . . . maybe we should > take a good saw as well. :-O
