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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message -----
<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Monday, June 03, 2002 2:36 PM</DIV>
<DIV><B>Subject:</B> RE: Mountaineering</DIV></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>This is a excerpt from a mountaineering friend
about climbing. Succinct and direct.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>=======================<BR></DIV></FONT>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">"As
Clint Eastwood said in one of his movies, “A man’s got to know his
limitations.”<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And of course, the
mountain always wins so if we want to return another day to visit a special
place in the mountains, a constant evaluation of risks v. rewards based on
current information needs to be part of our journey." <SPAN
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"></SPAN>You’ll notice the climbers who died on Rainier
made mistakes:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="mso-spacerun: yes"></SPAN>climbing a route that has no possible descent
alternatives; </SPAN></FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">climbing
this very difficult route with a weather forecast that called for
“deteriorating weather conditions”; </SPAN></FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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size=2><SPAN
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this as their first ever route up Rainier; </SPAN></FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">and
their navigation device (a GPS) froze so they couldn’t find the Emmons Glacier
which they could have descended even in darkness if
necessary. </SPAN></FONT></SPAN></DIV></LI></UL></DIV>
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