"Explorers" exploring things that have already been quite adequately explored, thanks all the same.
My choler has been aroused by varying bits and pieces of news recently, and also by an article posted recently by
thebirdwoman , about mountaineers / 'adventurers' / 'explorers' etc. The final straw arrived today via Metro newspaper, which detailed the deaths of several climbers on Mont Blanc who went up there with no regard for extreme weather warnings or taking proper equipment with them. "Their attempt to climb the 4500m peak was described as 'the height of stupidity' by French rescue chief Stephane Bozon." Presumably with no irony intended, but then he is French, so maybe....
My point is this: BONG! Here is the news: some bloke with more money than sense has got himself lost on a small dingy in the middle of the Pacific Ocean / A collection of posh weirdos has taken it upon themselves to go to the South Pole using the equipment that Scott used in 1912 to figure out whether he was unlucky or just a crap explorer / etc.
Sorry, when I said 'news', I actually meant 'complete waste of everybody's time'.
The world being largely explored now, is there really any need for a load of yahoos to try and reach the South Pole using equipment that wouldn't even make it into the Black's sale? (Note to any posh yahoos who stumble across this: that is a rhetorical question, i.e. no, there is no need for a load of yahoos to try and reach the South Pole using equipment that wouldn't even make it into the Black's sale).
So, if you do, say, set out over the Pacific in a fucking pedalo or something, risking almost certain drowning, would it be unreasonable to suggest that when you do capsize, rather than expect a multi-million pound rescue operation, you could at least have the decency to just drown, quietly?
Gotta go now, but I'm not done with this yet.... More later...
thebirdwoman , about mountaineers / 'adventurers' / 'explorers' etc. The final straw arrived today via Metro newspaper, which detailed the deaths of several climbers on Mont Blanc who went up there with no regard for extreme weather warnings or taking proper equipment with them. "Their attempt to climb the 4500m peak was described as 'the height of stupidity' by French rescue chief Stephane Bozon." Presumably with no irony intended, but then he is French, so maybe....
My point is this: BONG! Here is the news: some bloke with more money than sense has got himself lost on a small dingy in the middle of the Pacific Ocean / A collection of posh weirdos has taken it upon themselves to go to the South Pole using the equipment that Scott used in 1912 to figure out whether he was unlucky or just a crap explorer / etc.
Sorry, when I said 'news', I actually meant 'complete waste of everybody's time'.
The world being largely explored now, is there really any need for a load of yahoos to try and reach the South Pole using equipment that wouldn't even make it into the Black's sale? (Note to any posh yahoos who stumble across this: that is a rhetorical question, i.e. no, there is no need for a load of yahoos to try and reach the South Pole using equipment that wouldn't even make it into the Black's sale).
So, if you do, say, set out over the Pacific in a fucking pedalo or something, risking almost certain drowning, would it be unreasonable to suggest that when you do capsize, rather than expect a multi-million pound rescue operation, you could at least have the decency to just drown, quietly?
Gotta go now, but I'm not done with this yet.... More later...