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Olsson and Granheim SUMMIT Everest – skiing down the Norton Couloir!
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At 9AM GMT this morning the home team reported that they'd just had a call from the Summit of Everest
to say that Tomas and Tormod were about to put on their skis and attempt a sky-ski descent down the Norton Couloir! ...
This, after a 14 hour climb in a snow storm!
http://www.mounteverest.net/news.php?id=1991
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A snowHead on Fri 19-05-06 4:07; edited 1 time in total
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Obviously
A snowHead
isn't a real person
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A snowHead
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Tomas Olsson is still missing on Everest north face, after falling at a rock outcrop Tuesday. The accident took place about two hours after the climbers summited the mountain: In a call from the top, they had reported a very hard climb up in a 14 hour push through a snow storm. "I hope we will be strong enough to ski down the north face," Tomas said.
A Norwegian news source was among the last to talk to the climbers, a few hours after their summit: Tomas and Tormod had entered the Great Couloir, and reported that they felt incredibly tired, and were negotiating the hardest skiing conditions they had ever faced.
Very steep section
Shortly after, the two skiers encountered a 50 ft rock section at about 8500 meters and began rappelling down. Suddenly the anchor broke and Tomas fell, continuing to slide down the wall. Tormod immediately climbed down after him but found only Tomas ice axe. Climbers who have been in the area say that the section is so steep that a fall not arrested by a rock is likely to end at the foot of the mountain, in deep soft snow.
Tormod proceeded to climb down to ABC alone, in what must have been a very scary solo descent.
The Great (Norton) Couloir has only been summited once: On October 3, 1984, Australians Tim Macartney-Snape and Greg Mortimer climbed the Great Couloir to the summit without using oxygen. A woman, star mountaineer guide American Marty Hoey lost her life there on May 15 1982, vanishing in a fall.
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