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squishy, I stand corrected. (I know you like to hear that, and now that my pride is hurt, I'll go craw up in a corner.)
damn, I guess Neophiteat48 and I have to hold it down by ourselves then...
by Hotoven » Wed Apr 14, 2010 5:14 pm
by Marmaduke » Wed Apr 14, 2010 7:15 pm
Smoove910 wrote:
how the parents should be prosecuted and how horrible of people they are.
but I can already see you gloating if something tragic happens. Which I foresee the thread will take a turn to the 'I told you so' undertone.
Good times!
by Marmaduke » Wed Apr 14, 2010 7:45 pm
squishy wrote:Hotoven wrote:damn, I guess Neophiteat48 and I have to hold it down by ourselves then...
I need to take the guy out climbing (I attempted too already)...I enjoy hanging out with repubs, they produce good jokes...
by Marmaduke » Wed Apr 14, 2010 8:44 pm
colint wrote:Seems pointless in this determinedly pointless thread, but just wanted to wish the kid good luck.
by MoapaPk » Wed Apr 14, 2010 8:45 pm
by Hotoven » Wed Apr 14, 2010 8:48 pm
squishy wrote:Hotoven wrote:damn, I guess Neophiteat48 and I have to hold it down by ourselves then...
I need to take the guy out climbing (I attempted too already)...I enjoy hanging out with repubs, they produce good jokes...
by Marmaduke » Wed Apr 14, 2010 9:03 pm
Dingus Milktoast wrote:Neophiteat48 wrote:Smoove910 wrote:
how the parents should be prosecuted and how horrible of people they are.
but I can already see you gloating if something tragic happens. Which I foresee the thread will take a turn to the 'I told you so' undertone.
Good times!
Firstly- prosecuted if something horrible happens up there- there are and should be laws to protect our youth. I know we don't agree and that's fine, but to insinuate that I will gloat if something tragic happens........you are a sick person. Sorry to be so direct but that is a statement that is totally ignorant.
Secondly- If something tragic happens to this 13 year old BOY (not man), I hope you and others who feel there is NO PROBLEM with the parents for backing this and NO PROBLEM with a 13 year old BOY attempting Everest, will learn from the tragedy.
Learn what from this tragedy that hasn't yet happened? What lessons will be ripe for the plucking???
DMT
by Marmaduke » Wed Apr 14, 2010 10:11 pm
Dingus Milktoast wrote:I asked you what lessons after you said you hoped I'd learn a lesson. Its not that I have failed to understand your points. I am not missing something due to my lack of education or cognitive abilities. I am getting what you are saying.
I just don't feel like the whole worlds needs vanilla safety.
And I would be pleased if someone would address Marshall's observation that there are 13 year old porters on Everest and no one is crying over them. Will those young porters all learn this valuable lesson? WHat about their filthy rich clients?
DMT[
by Patrick B » Wed Apr 14, 2010 10:13 pm
woodsxc wrote:billisfree wrote:1993, 129 summitted and eight died (a ratio of 16:1); in 1996, 98 summitted and 15 died (a ratio of 6½:1)
That's a misleading statistic... the correct value to use is the number of deaths divided by the number who SERIOSLY ATTEMPTED the summit.
If one used the number that actually summited, one is getting a skewed figure.
Imagine... 200 people attempt, one makes it and one dies. That's a 50% fatality rate.
The correct value in this case should be odds of making it (0.5%)
and the odds of dying (0.5%)
Not at all.
We're not looking at percent of people who died, but rather the ratio of successful summit bids to deaths. To get the death rate of climbers on Everest, your method would be correct, but that's not what Patrick was talking about. He's comparing the number of people who died to the number that reach the highest point on earth.
by Hotoven » Wed Apr 14, 2010 11:06 pm
Dingus Milktoast wrote:And I would be pleased if someone would address Marshall's observation that there are 13 year old porters on Everest and no one is crying over them. Will those young porters all learn this valuable lesson? WHat about their filthy rich clients?
DMT
by Day Hiker » Thu Apr 15, 2010 12:15 am
woodsxc wrote:I think it's a load of bull that the kid won't miss anything in 8 weeks of school. If we were talking about pulling a 3rd grader, that's one thing, but around 7th or 8th grade, you start learning useful stuff again.
by Smoove910 » Thu Apr 15, 2010 2:14 am
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