It is not the cold that kills it is the lack of oxygen which leads to hypoxia.

May 22, 2019
1:08:41pm

CanuckUte All-American

The lack of oxygen clouds your judgement and the monetary cost of the climb means that people make bad decisions to keep going when they really should be turning around and going back.

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CanuckUte

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Time

Utah man dies on Everest

Faceman

5/22/19 11:42am

I know that guy. Was a great sales guy at Omniture

DazeofBlue

5/22/19 11:47am

I swear I saw a Ute fan tweet from base camp last week. Was it him?

cougfanblue

5/22/19 11:49am

It was the lawn guy.

cougfanblue

5/22/19 11:50am

Wait, so it was or was not him? I've seen the ute fan tweets too.

RdF3

5/22/19 12:04pm

No, different guy. I think that Utah fan only went to base camp, didn't climb the mountain.

BengalCougar

5/22/19 12:05pm

His FB page shows he was a big U fan, even had a ski boat with U graphics on it.

BYUFBDAD

5/22/19 12:14pm

He was, still a different guy than the one I saw on twitter.

BengalCougar

5/22/19 12:17pm

Sorry, that was a horribly confusing post. I meant it was the lawn guy who tweeted from base camp.

cougfanblue

5/22/19 12:06pm

Big dude with the bike? Hard to tell from the picture if it's him

Sumguy

5/23/19 11:29am

This one hits close to home.

autonomous

5/22/19 11:53am

I’m so very sorry. Did he leave a family behind?

cougarmanguy

5/22/19 11:54am

Dang, looks like a big family.

BYUFBDAD

5/22/19 11:56am

Ugh

cougarmanguy

5/22/19 11:56am

4 kids. I think his youngest just got married.

autonomous

5/22/19 12:02pm

The sad thing is that it is highly unlikely they can even bring his body back.

CanuckUte

5/22/19 11:59am

"Bringing him down" isn't really possible anyway. If you can't come down on your

Rich Lather

5/22/19 11:59am

Yup, it's too difficult and far too dangerous to try bring a body down from that altitude.

BengalCougar

5/22/19 12:00pm

Thus the milestones on the accent are occassionally dead bodies. "Green Boots"

BostonCougar

5/22/19 12:34pm

Speaking of Green Boots, there's a fantastic documentary about climbers passing

Rich Lather

5/22/19 1:20pm

Actually, I think I mixed up climbers. This is about another climber that died

Rich Lather

5/22/19 1:34pm

I love Everest stuff. Not sure why it fascinates me so much.

CDV

5/22/19 3:12pm

Fell at the summit.... meaning fell ill at the summit or literally fell at the

kotacoug

5/22/19 12:42pm

I thought the same thing. If he literally fell a distance that caused his death

RdF3

5/22/19 12:45pm

This guy(link in post) seems to have more information from family friends

azmbacougar

5/22/19 12:54pm

Fell unconscious

Zilog

5/22/19 2:20pm

Crazy to me that people risk their lives to walk in the cold

byu1

5/22/19 12:56pm

It is not the cold that kills it is the lack of oxygen which leads to hypoxia.

CanuckUte

5/22/19 1:08pm

Man these stories of needless death make me so sad for the families left behind

TEXAS

5/22/19 1:05pm

love that gif tho. looks like you can pretty much throw it as high as you want

smokymountainrain

5/22/19 1:34pm

They’ve made it too easy and too accessible.

BNcoug

5/22/19 5:22pm

I wonder how much the traffic jam had to due with his death. Was it the long

buckeyecougarguy

5/23/19 12:56am

If it was a long ascent, should have turned around.

BNcoug

5/23/19 9:19am

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