On Feb 4, 2005, at 11:50 AM, Tom C wrote:
Appearances are deceiving, if he had fallen, there was a nice ledge four or five feet under, that would have caught him.
I hate to go OT but a guy was rescued off NZ's tallest mountain the other day. He slipped while climbing near the summit and fell about 5 metres. If his foot hadn't caught in some rocks on a small ledge he'd have fallen 1500m further.
He set off his emergency locator beacon and made a cup of tea. A rescue helicopter turned up the next morning.
Cheers,
- Dave
http://www.digistar.com/~dmann/
