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

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May 22, 2019
1:20:43pm

Rich Lather All-American

him on the ascent and then again on the descent the day he died in 2006. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHSmpLUiTh8

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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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