Friday, June 02, 2006

 
Picture of congestion on Mt. Everest:

Or: "It's just a frostbite wound!"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Miners_climb_Chilkoot.jpg

oops -that was the Chilkoot Trail during the Alaskan Gold Rush.

And a "two socks too many" Monty Python award goes out to the first double-amputee to climb the grand Mons Passerby*, Mark Inglis, and the first to reach David "Not-So" Sharp, and reportedly the nom de plummet author of the Jack Londonesque, "To Build An Artificial Limb."
And perhaps Citibank can do one of their credit card Identity Theft commercials with the voice of a thief coming out of the mouth of some forlorn figure shivering in a Mt. Everest cave.
-Ah....brings back memories of a classic(?)Star Trek-inspired bumper sticker on a vehicle which I've long since abandoned- something like
"He dead, Jim! You take his phaser and I'll grab his wallet!"

*as in mons pubis -generally safer, although not always cheaper, to climb