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jst saw the photos on the herald website....curious ,what hut was that? im picking a few on here know this area quite well
Story sounds too remarkable to be factually correct? Maybe some more details will come. E.g. weeks of food is a helluva lot of food to carry. Lucky bugger though.
Also, can you really see Mt Cook from Taupo in a chopper on a sweet clear day like the last couple of days? Thats roughly 800km+? Hmmm.
Very lucky bloke,maybe another two or three hours would have been a goner.
He was deluded about seeing the southern alps and Cook. The article says that. It was the Central Plateau he was looking at. The whole story sounds quite plausible to me if you read it carefully.Quote:
Originally Posted by Flyblown
He was a very lucky man.
Mt Cook funny... not funny being in there with no food and no pants on....[emoji2]
Cold enough up the Plateau Saturday without being another 30 kms in them mountains. We didn’t recognise the hut, anybody?
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The story on Stuff was updated this morning, I read it yesterday when it first broke. First version was a bit sketchy and there’s a more detail in it now, including acknowledgment that the first comments about Mt Cook were wrong. Also the duration of his stay in the bush has changed twice since the story first broke, reducing both times. I still think there’s a little more to come on this.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tahr
It looks very like Waiotukapiti Hut on the Waiau river, may be wrong but that's very like what I remember!!:)Quote:
Originally Posted by scotty
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Originally Posted by berg243
AND finally activated it!
Hypothermia may have been quite an acute event rather than gradual onset, going by his account of getting swept along when attempting a river crossing. Hypothermia may also have clouded his judgment and caused a dangerous delay in activating his PLB.
Maybe he finally got just one clear thought through his foggy stubborn mind: "Now, what would my wife have me do now?"
"At this point – but still reluctantly, as he didn't want to put everyone out, but in the knowledge that he is a good tax paying citizen – he activated his beacon," the trust said."
Funny that was my only guess also.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pistov
Very Lucky indeed.
Its defintely not Te Wai
A good outcome once again thanks to Greenleigh rescue chopper, and to think the shiny bums are thinking of scrapping the taupo based services FFS:pissed off:
and the powers that be want to reduce the number of rescue choppers out there.........
Article in the paper said Te Waiotukapiti
Just been through me photo file, willing to bet me mother in laws inheritance that it's Waiotukapiti--(Te Waikapiti)!!!:)
Hmm......Lucky chap
And this is where modern technology causes natural selection to stagnate. This guy is just going to go out and do it again.
He could have just stayed out of the river. Three times. It's because he has a PLB, he feels safe enough to go and do stupid things.
After using it one time you should have the damn thing taken off you.
Hypothermia makes the brain engage in some weird decisions.Quote:
Originally Posted by Carlsen Highway
It might be because you are in a constant deluded state CH, and thinking not-normal to you is normal. But for us normal people it doesn't take too much exhaustion and loss of body heat to start to think not-normal. PLB or not, once exhausted and slightly hypothermic this chap was likely to make poor decisions.Quote:
Originally Posted by Carlsen Highway
As an aside, I understand that the term hyperthermia (being used by some in this thread) is elevated body temp, while hypothermia is decreased body temp. This chap would have been suffering from hypothermia.
@Carlsen Highway really? I have a plb and it would not make me do something i would not do if i didn't have it. Most of the time i forget its even there. Absolutely no influence on what i do or don't do.
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Originally Posted by Tahr
I understand hypothermia. But hypothermia was the result - not the cause of his poor decision making. My point is that fools may become an unwelcome burden on the community, genetic advancement, and very possibly the health of the species.
Our civilisation has made the individual divine and precious, when there is plainly way too many of us.
I am, of course, taking a macro view of the situation.
I do not have a plb, and I have stated elsewhere, do not believe they are a healthy addition to our technology. As for those who have accused me of possibly being a hypocrite, and that I should wish never be in a position to need one, for fear I would prove them right; for them I can only say that when the time comes and there is no other out, when I have two broken legs, four days walk from the road, I pray only for the grim strength to roll to my rifle and blow my brains out like a man. I will take responsibility for everything goddamn it, except the beginning.
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Originally Posted by blair993
Yes, but you are not a fool, and plainly a gentleman. We are not talking about good citizens - we are talking about encouraging cretins.
This guy's story is such a good learning point -- once hypothermic, or bleeding, or septic, you may forget even more that your PLB is there. I have a tab label on the pouch where my PLB rests just for that reminder, also in case someone stumbles on me in a bad state.Quote:
Originally Posted by blair993
I'm cautious, never broken a bone in my life or had a traffic collision, but shit happens. I always wear my seat belt, not just because I'm told to.
All that said, there is a valid point in what @Carlsen Highway says about the security of the PLB. It just has to have some influence on how we pack. I mean, cars are driven closer to cyclists who wear helmets!