Everest

So does anyone actually know that comments have been deleted?

bobbyg

jasper100 wrote: »

People are still posting and donating today hoping he is found alive.

Just had a look there and couldn't see any such comments, guess they must have been deleted! Anyhow I doubt anyone believes he is alive at this stage

bobbyg wrote: »

Just had a look there and couldn't see any such comments, guess they must have been deleted! Anyhow I doubt anyone believes he is alive at this stage

They are deleting comments that he is dead and deleting comments that he could be alive! Its like communist China. Its good that we have the beady eyes of AH posters to monitor this.

0gac3yjefb5sv7

The person who set the page up, most likely did so with the best intentions to raise as much as possible to help him.

The family would have been clearly advised that he is most likely not alive at this point but maybe the number one thing on their mind isn't to update a gofundme page.

I severely doubt the person that set it up is sitting there gleefully, after his colleagues recent passing. The money should be accounted for but the time to be asking that is when the fundraising has ended.

This person was retrieved from 8,400m, 10 days after she died. But this was more straightforward, I think, in that they knew where she was.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shriya_Shah-Klorfine

5 hours ago.

Please God let him be found alive

Blaizes

The way some people are going on here would make you laugh , you'd swear they were on the public accounts committee such is their concern about this money people donated OF THEIR OWN FREE WILL.

Pure and utter begrudgery and narrow mindedness it is from insinuations of fraud to uncalled for comments about the man and his family. Plus ca change...

D.Q

It's a bizarre undertaking.

Extremely dangerous, extremely expensive. Just buy a plot and a headstone if you want to pay respects.

Really don't understand why they need to have his actual dead body there. What difference does it make?

jam_mac_jam

Blaizes wrote: »

The way some people are going on here would make you laugh , you'd swear they were on the public accounts committee such is their concern about this money people donated OF THEIR OWN FREE WILL.

Pure and utter begrudgery and narrow mindedness it is from insinuations of fraud to uncalled for comments about the man and his family. Plus ca change...

begrudgery? Yes I am sure everyone is jealous that they haven't been killed on Everest. That is going to be the primary reason alright.

completedit

D.Q wrote: »

It's a bizarre undertaking.

Extremely dangerous, extremely expensive. Just buy a plot and a headstone if you want to pay respects.

Really don't understand why they need to have his actual dead body there. What difference does it make?

Yeah. I am religious and when I go to my loved ones grave it's just to have a personal moment and to reflect. It be a weird thought if I felt I was going to talk with them beneath the ground. But it's so raw and in their heads now they want to have a send off, see him for the last time. In the grand scheme of things it means nothing but for them now, that's all they see.

Blaizes wrote: »

The way some people are going on here would make you laugh , you'd swear they were on the public accounts committee such is their concern about this money people donated OF THEIR OWN FREE WILL.

Pure and utter begrudgery and narrow mindedness it is from insinuations of fraud to uncalled for comments about the man and his family. Plus ca change...

Its being advertised as a search and rescue. They want 750000 for it, even though any previous recoveries are being quoted around 50k

Rte ramped it. His trinity colleagues championed a charity angle.

People are still donating believing he might be found alive.

ToBeFrank123

Obvious Desperate Breakfasts wrote: »

This person was retrieved from 8,400m, 10 days after she died. But this was more straightforward, I think, in that they knew where she was.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shriya_Shah-Klorfine

She was on the main route so relatively easy to bring down compared to Lawless who has yet to be found. Its possible he fell down a crevice. Locating him could be the easy part, but sounds like he's a long way from the beaten path.

jam_mac_jam

Lucky none of the Sherpas that will be risking their lives to bring him back have kids or families.

ToBeFrank123

For every sherpa who makes it rich from westerners there's probably another who dies trying or suffers longtern injuries.
There's nothing glamorous about climbing Everest.

jam_mac_jam wrote: »

Lucky none of the Sherpas that will be risking their lives to bring him back have kids or families.

I wonder if they die will trinity launch another go fund me page?

Probably not, I guess the bodies will just be dumped into a crevice next spring before holidaymakers start arriving again.

Cant be spoiling the view for the tourists now.

LollipopJimmy

Blaizes wrote: »

The way some people are going on here would make you laugh , you'd swear they were on the public accounts committee such is their concern about this money people donated OF THEIR OWN FREE WILL.

Pure and utter begrudgery and narrow mindedness it is from insinuations of fraud to uncalled for comments about the man and his family. Plus ca change...

It's not begrudgery or narrow mindedness, ordinary people are parting with their cash in the belief that this is a rescue mission and the big nasty insurance company are doing nothing

ToBeFrank123 wrote: »

She was on the main route so relatively easy to bring down compared to Lawless who has yet to be found. Its possible he fell down a crevice. Locating him could be the easy part, but sounds like he's a long way from the beaten path.

Well, no, it was in death zone so not easy at all, even relative to Lawless. Lives would have been risked. As I said somewhere in this thread, anyone who has had their legs numbed by an epidural knows how heavy one’s own limbs are. And that’s at near sea-level.

bobbyg

LollipopJimmy wrote: »

It's not begrudgery or narrow mindedness, ordinary people are parting with their cash in the belief that this is a rescue mission and the big nasty insurance company are doing nothing

Nobody donating at this stage believes it's a rescue mission, it's been widely reported that it is a recovery mission since Sunday.

bobbyg wrote: »

Nobody donating at this stage believes it's a rescue mission, it's been widely reported that it is a recovery mission since Sunday.

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LollipopJimmy

bobbyg wrote: »

Nobody donating at this stage believes it's a rescue mission, it's been widely reported that it is a recovery mission since Sunday.

A quick look at the page says otherwise

redmgar wrote: »

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You're adding nothing to the discussion which in the main has been quite reasonable.

[Deleted User]

Comment on the gofundme within the last hour

its just amazing how people are coming together to give money your all amazing and to think the insurance company would not pay out shame on you-you will lose a lot of clients over this please come home xxxx

LollipopJimmy wrote: »

A quick look at the page says otherwise

You're adding nothing to the discussion which in the main has been quite reasonable.

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Alrigghtythen

Maybe he had achieved all he wanted to and chose not to return

bobbyg wrote: »

Nobody donating at this stage believes it's a rescue mission, it's been widely reported that it is a recovery mission since Sunday.

Apart from the guy 32 minutes ago. And 2 more earlier today.

BowSideChamp wrote: »

This is the crowd that Shay Lawless signed up with - https://www.sevensummittreks.com/trip/vvip-everest-expedition-service

Basically, you pay for some poor local Sherpas to carry you and all your gear up the mountain so you can take an Instagram photo.

The Simpsons took the piss out of this very thing in its golden era, over twenty years ago, with Homer being dragged up Mount Springfield. So, a mainstream show - albeit a very clever one in its heyday - was making fun of this a quarter century ago. I’m amazed at the naivety of some of the contributors to the GoFundMe campaign.

Alrigghtythen wrote: »

Maybe he had achieved all he wanted to and chose not to return

Possibly. Putting it before wanting to see his second child born.

Wouldn't surprise me given a lot of these people step over dying people to get to the top.

Atoms for Peace

LollipopJimmy wrote: »

It's a massively valid point, a quick look at the comments will show you hat ordinary people in their naivety are donating thinking they are helping to locate a missing person not a body.

You can as sarky as you like but that's the truth of it and why people here are a little miffed. It's the deception

Surely well educated people with access to the internet would recognise the absurdity of sending a search party up to the death zone, or am I expecting too much.

BowSideChamp wrote: »

This is the crowd that Shay Lawless signed up with - https://www.sevensummittreks.com/trip/vvip-everest-expedition-service

Basically, you pay for some poor local Sherpas to carry you and all your gear up the mountain so you can take an Instagram photo.

The following, from that company’s page is quite shocking:

Shouldn’t people considering attempting Everest be in great physical condition? I don’t think specialist knowledge is required to know that. I mean, I questioned my fitness before I climbed Croagh Patrick! And saying they can compensate for fear of risks? Even for top mountaineers, Everest is not risk-free.

tuxy

I like the bit abut having your own chef with fresh fruit and veg flown in by helicopter daily