Another article from my Instapaper queue is this story from Vanity Fair about a couple of British boys who tried to climb Mont Blanc. The British have a colourful history of climbing mountains, racing to the North/South pole which I enjoy reading about, even if it’s just on Wikipedia. These boys have the same interest as they have followed in the footsteps of their forebearers and (successfully) climbed Everest.

Their latest adventure ended in tragedy as half of their party died. It’s a sad story, but what I couldn’t shake a day after reading this was how depressing the job of the mountain-rescue officer in the small tourist town of Chamonix (< 10,000 population) must be. Mont Blanc is the world's deadliest mountain, and so the officer must have to rely tragic bad news much more often than a doctor in Chamonix would have to.

Posted by Kevin in Blogs Tags: british, death, instapaper