girl falls while rock climbing in Yosemite. Alive but so broken. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...mite-California-faces-huge-hospital-bill.html
I'm not gonna click. I'm a contra-rubbernecker. I detour to avoid going by accident scenes. I'm glad she lived...I wonder if she is.
Your original comment said "Alive but so broken." I wonder how much pain and misery she is in, and how glad she is that she made it.
Marie: Something tells me it won't be quick unless she's supergirl. Mountain climbing glad I passed on that one.
There are a lot, and I do mean A LOT, of "danger seekers" around the world. Like, people camping out on the side of a large rock. And, those that throw "caution" to the wind and do exactly what a warning sign tells them not to.
We spend tens of thousands of dollars every year rescuing people from Denali. I think it is fine for people to take their lives to the limit, but I have long been an advocate of requiring "Rescue Insurance" for everyone who climbs a dangerous peak or rock face. The taxpayers and governments should not be required to compensate for others' folly. Normal helicopters cannot reach to altitudes near the top of the mountain, so they have to use very expensive high-altitude choppers to rescue people. Sometimes even the hunt for bodies costs thousand of dollars.
I understand that it's quite expensive to be rescued from Mount Katahdin, the end of the Appalachian Trail.
Most Alaskans have always called it that. President McKinley never even saw the mountain, and I think it is probably the one good thing Obama did during his 8 years.