The news reports say the Chopper Replica Breitling watches crashed after rescuing one of the climbers who was taken by to Ama Dablam BC.The accident happened as they returned for the second climb.There was no current update on his status.A conflicting report says had rescued both climbers and brought them down to Lukla and had returned to the mountainwhen it appeared to “fall out of the sky”, according to eye-witnesses.
As I wrote in May 2010, Fishtail Air brought new capability to high mountain rescues in the Himalaya utilizing techniques developed in the European Alps.Fishtail Air has a fleet of five helicopters, including four Ecureuils, two of them Replica IWC watches high-performance aircraft for high altitude rescue.Helicopter crashes are not uncommon in the high mountains and especially on Everest where there have been multiple deadly helicopter crashes at Everest Base Camp including 1997, 2003, 2005 and 2007.And many in the climbing community feel the high-altitude rescue opportunity invites climbers to take unnecessary risks.
renowned high-altitude physician, Dr.Peter Hacket, told me of the rescues this past spring that in his opinion “… helicopter requests from base camp were totally out of control, many were unnecessary.”My condolences to the families swiss replica watches and friends of Mr.Basnet and Awale.Climb On!AlanArnette is a speaker, mountaineer and Alzheimers Advocate.He is climbing the 7 Summits starting with Mt.Vinson in November 2010 to raise $1 million for Alzheimers research.You can read more on his site.
