----- Original Message ----- From: steve harley <[email protected]> To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <[email protected]> Cc: Sent: Friday, November 25, 2011 11:05 PM Subject: Re: Up Mount Washington
on 2011-11-25 17:22 Mark Roberts wrote > In the photo linked below, Lisa is > literally hanging on to the summit marker sign to avoid being blown > away. > > http://www.robertstech.com/temp/lisa-1.jpg > heartwarming story, memorable picture, and i'm sure you'll find that beer > helpful >... also a unique counterpoint to the 1981 National Geographic in which i was >just seconds ago reading Reinhold Messner's account of his solo ascent of >Everest ... and further, while i > never climbed it, i spent many an evening in my Maine adolescence watching > the most marvelous weirdo give the weather report from the top of Mt > Washington Ha! "Uncle Willy" we called him. When I was a camp counselor in New Hampshire in the late 60s-early 70s we would gather around the TV in the counselors' shack just to watch him. His most memorable broadcast was when a moth got into the studio. Willy kept losing his place as he watched it flutter about. Rick -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
