just breaking on sky news 3 British climbers die in snowstorms in Spains sierra nevada mountains.
Getting back to the point, some neighbours of ours have a house in the Alpujarras and have recently come back from a visit. There seems to be two versions of events circulating. The authorities are saying that the people involved were ill-equipped but other climbers who met them en-route have said that they were both approproiately equipped and experienced. One, however, took a fall and a knock to the head, which is why they holed up while the younger chap went for help. The rest we know.
Getting back to the point, some neighbours of ours have a house in the Alpujarras and have recently come back from a visit. There seems to be two versions of events circulating. The authorities are saying that the people involved were ill-equipped but other climbers who met them en-route have said that they were both approproiately equipped and experienced. One, however, took a fall and a knock to the head, which is why they holed up while the younger chap went for help. The rest we know.
An english chap I knew, only from a telephone conversation, had died in bad weather high up a spanish mountain a couple of weeks before this, he (aged 39) and his girlfriend (25) were fit, apparently experienced and well equipped. He had managed to phone a colleague in England to alert the mountain rescue that they were trapped and digging in. Yet they both perished outside their snowhole so I imagine had decided to try a descent and were caught out.
