Climbers Abandon Disabled Man Halfway Up Mountain

In an attempt to win the coveted worst samaritan/friend award, a group of climbers abandoned their disabled friend not once, but twice, on a mountain climbing trip. The group was carrying their wheelchair-bound friend on a sponsored charity climb up Mount Snowdon in North Wales. Before reaching the top, the group decided the handicapped man was too heavy to carry any more, so they left him behind while they continued to the peak. Unfortunately, this final push also left the compassionately challenged group unable to bring the man and his wheelchair back down. Rescuers were called in to save the man and hopefully find him some better friends. Climber Dave Morrell, 44, who saw the rescue, said, "The poor bloke was sitting there in his wheelchair for quite a while. It was a bit mean of them to leave him there while they carried on to the top. But other climbers went over to talk to him. He was just getting very cold."

Comments

Wheelchair?!? WTF?!?

[Anonymous Coward]

Are wheelchairs really all that useful in mountain climbing? Perhaps the little prick would have been a little easier to carry if he hadn't insisted on carrying the wheelchair as well?

Martial artists, not mountaineers

[RockDoctor]

As the old, serious, joke goes, that's not even wrong.
As TFA says, the party involved were martial artists on a money-raising stunt ; they were as much mountaineers as the man on the bottom of the East River in the concrete overcoat is a scuba diver.

The boss of the mountain rescue team (volunteers who shed more mountaineering experience with their nail trimmings than the Karate Kids had in their entire party), "This party were poorly prepared and felt it was OK to carry on to the summit rather than turn around and get him down the mountain,"

This is the sort of idiotic escapade that gives mountaineering in particular and outdoor sports in general a bad reputation. And it's not the fault of the sports, or the mountains, but of the idiotic Karate Children who carried up (but didn't carry down) this escapade.

(I bet some reporting of this somewhere is going to refer to "treacherous mountains" ; that makes as little sense as referring to a treasonable nail, despite the nail being directly responsible for regime change.)