Ediger said:
>It's a little bit late but I'd like to point
out that the word for stairs and ladders is the same in Spanish--escalaras.
Actually, it's escalera, but the rest of
Ediger's points are well taken.
Mark Minton
At 07:16 PM 3/25/2010, Gill Edigar wrote:
On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 5:57 PM, Fofo <[email protected]> wrote:
¡Hola!
This is a report from Antonio Aguirre...:
There is an alternate exit from the cave,
through some badly deteriorated metal stairs. A
group was going up these when a metal bar fell
on a person's head and he had to be helped by
his friends, who guided him through the normal exit.
It is worth noting that a lot of non-cavers
visit this cave and the majority of them use the
stairs to exit. This part of the cave has a lot
of damage, some steps are missing in the stairs, they are very rusty, etc.
It's a little bit late but I'd like to point out
that the word for stairs and ladders is the same
in Spanish--escalaras. The stairs reported in
the above text refers to a ladder, not stairs.
It's a really dangerous, poorly constructed,
ergonomically doubtful (rungs too far apart)
fixed ladder that they often have elementary
school field trips to where the kids climb up
and down the ladders totally without belays or
other backup. I love that sort of freedom. The
United States misses a lot by protecting people
from their own stupidity--creating barriers to
learning common sense and practical knowledge.
--Ediger
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