30 year old Philip Goodeve-Docker has been killed while trekking across Greenland's ice sheet. His two colleagues were rescued suffering from major frostbite and shock.
I don't like speaking ill of the dead, but aren't people that do stunts like this a bit dim? Who cares whether someone can trek 400 miles in the freezing snow, definitely not me. What do you gain from this?
It's the people that do the rescuing I feel sorry for, why should they be put at risk just because someone wants to attempt a pointless walk through the snow? Surely if people want to take on tasks like this they should be left to fend for themselves.
And what's this "shock" his two colleages have experienced? Were they expecting tropical temperatures and a Little Chef on every corner? The clue is in the title "ice sheet".
Can you see the point of this sort of "adventure" and should the state (Greenland's in this case) have to pay to find them when it goes tits up?
I don't like speaking ill of the dead, but aren't people that do stunts like this a bit dim? Who cares whether someone can trek 400 miles in the freezing snow, definitely not me. What do you gain from this?
It's the people that do the rescuing I feel sorry for, why should they be put at risk just because someone wants to attempt a pointless walk through the snow? Surely if people want to take on tasks like this they should be left to fend for themselves.
And what's this "shock" his two colleages have experienced? Were they expecting tropical temperatures and a Little Chef on every corner? The clue is in the title "ice sheet".
Can you see the point of this sort of "adventure" and should the state (Greenland's in this case) have to pay to find them when it goes tits up?