Now this is a downright cold thing to do
These people should be shunned for what they did.
From the
Australian news.com.au website:
Wheelchair-bound man left halfway up Mount Snowdon
A WHEELCHAIR-bound man suffered mild exposure after being abandoned halfway up a mountain by a group of charity climbers who gave up carrying him.
The 31-year-old man was left sitting on the steep and rocky Llanberis Path by the rest of his party of six, who were martial artists on a charity climb of Mount Snowdon in North Wales, the TimesOnline reports.
�The poor bloke was sitting there in his wheelchair for quite a while,� climber Dave Morrell, who witnessed the incident, told the TimesOnline.
�It was a bit mean of them to leave him there while they carried on to the top. But other climbers went over to talk to him. He was just getting very cold.�
The man was met by his party during their descent but they pleaded exhaustion and called out a rescue team to carry him down.
Fifteen members of the Llanberis mountain rescue team ferried the man to the mountain railway where a train brought him back to ground level.
�This party were poorly prepared and felt it was OK to carry on to the summit rather than turn around and get him down the mountain,� Ian Henderson of Llanberis mountain rescue team said.
Mr Henderson described the rescue team callout as �cheeky�.
�At what point did they think �it�s OK we�ll get the rescue team to push him down?��
Words... Fail... Leaving the guy to go on and summit is unconscionable.
To refuse to help him and calling search and rescue on the way down is criminal.
Posted by DaveH at October 19, 2009 8:08 PM