Unusual Escape From Avalanche

[MattC]

Somebody posted this to the Catskill 3500 Club list serve:
http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_1261997.html?menu
It had me laughing my head off. Talk about being resourceful.

Matt

 

[dr_wu002]

This is a really weird story. I wish there was some kind of secondary source available to verify it. Is this paper some equivalent of "The Onion" or something? Why didn't the guy just open the beer and pour it out onto the snow?

Hmmm...

I'm going to have to pass this on to an expert: Tom, can you help?

-Wu

 

[MattC]

Come to think of it Wu, maybe I was being gullible in assuming this is true. It was still good for a laugh though.

Matt

 

[ghassert]

Why didn't the guy just open the beer and pour it out onto the snow?

-Wu

Why waste the beer ?

 

[dr_wu002]

Why waste the beer ?

It could have been cheep beer.



Wu

 

[Papa Bear]

Why didn't the guy just open the beer and pour it out onto the snow?

Actually the beer would have frozen.

The human body acted as an heater, powered by the beer calories. The body basically extracted the calories (from the alcohol and carbohydrates) and used them to heat the remainder, primarily water (now p!ss).

Voila!

See - it's all scientific.

Actually, the High Pointers site has sent the story to snopes which debunks urban myths. Not proven or disproven yet: Americas Roof thread

 

[Panama Jack]

beer is good

CNN actually picked up this story earlier in the week. Quite ingenious

 

[Guinness]

The guy is a saint. After 60 beers, I would not be able to aim. That’s one hell of a pee hole. Can you imagine climbing out though it?

 

[dr_wu002]

Oh Jeez:

http://www.varsity.co.nz/funnies/articles.asp?id=4326
http://www9.sbs.com.au/theworldnews/region.php?id=104166&region=3
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3172555a4560,00.html

We gotta ask Darren if he can get this guy an account on VFTT!

I didn't understand the logistics of this at first. The guy made a pee hole. They should tell people hiking Tuckerman's on High Risk Avalanche days to bring a lot of beer and show them this article!

-Wu

 

[SteveHiker]

The guy is a saint. After 60 beers, I would not be able to aim. That’s one hell of a pee hole. Can you imagine climbing out though it?

Like the ending of the Shawshank Redemption.

 

[MattC]

Maybe they could make an adventure documentary out of this story, ala "Touching the Void."

Matt

 

[tycho_32]

How to write your name and 100 other useful things to do with pee.
The title of Bill Brysons new book?

 

[Mark]

Wouldn't he want to go up and the pee want to go down? Perhaps he just waited until he really, really, really had to go!

 

[Papa Bear]

Here's an update on the story from snopes (urban legend debunker) via America's roof: http://www.network54.com/Forum/message?forumid=3897&messageid=1107436626

snopes updated - sort of
February 3 2005 at 8:17 AM

Response to Snopes doesn't have an answer....yet
still undetermined, but they've added the following:

"However, a correspondent who works for a Slovak news agency informed us that not only has the avalanche story (or any news story about an avalanche) not appeared in the news media there, but the very same tale (of Czech origin, told about an unnamed man caught in the Austrian Alps) was circulating in that country as an e-mail joke even before the heavy snows described in the article occurred. "

http://www.snopes.com/media/notnews/avalanche.asp

It was an Czech email urban legend that some news agency picked up. figures.

 

[percious]

I don't care who ya are, thats funny right thar.

-percious

 

[spencer]

Don't you think CNN checks credibility before they go live with such stories?

60 beers? good work!

spencer

 

[ROCKYSUMMIT]

i think drinking all those beers first had to be more fun than just pouring them

 

[Pete_Hickey]

60 beers? good work!

That's the part that gets me. They were 60 half liter bottles... roughly 16 ounce bottles which is roughly equivilant to 80 'normal' bottlles of beer.