clmbr wrote:This is pathetic he calls himself a climber but twisted his ankle while hiking with ski poles and called for a helicopter to be rescued and GoPro-ed and posted on YouTube the whole event shamelessly.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXKfzcyXS6I Go to 3:06-3:12. What would be next?
Wow, I am trying really hard to be distant on this, remove myself from the train wreck.
I've done that jump (on Picacho) 5 times, it's not a place for trekking poles. It doesn't need to be more than 3'-4' total, over big exposure; one is supposed to downclimb a bit. I think he started his jump way too high on the slope (but the GoPro distortion makes it hard to tell). I broke my ankle in 2009 (NOT at Picacho), by landing wrong after a mere 2' jump. I walked out that time, and now I carry enough supplies to tape my ankle. I try to learn from my mistakes.
Once in the past, probably when drunk, I declared my academic credentials on SP; mea culpa. Common sense is often rare in the ivied halls, and academic laurels do not necessarily translate into good decisions in everyday life. As you all know. Academia can be snider and crueler than the nastiest SuperTopo thread.
EDIT: I'm sincerely glad he posted that video; it shows details of SAR that are not obvious. I doubt he was able to get reception on his iPhone from that location; I wonder if the man and kid found him and called 911. Locals climb to the north summit a lot, as it doesn't involve anything worse than class 3 (and the jump). The USGS map (erroneously) shows the north summit as higher.