A while ago an experienced climber wanted his picture taken at Mount St. Helens.
Everyone who takes a good look at the rim of the crater knows there are very dangerous spots, especially when there's a thick layer of snow.
They guy however must have forgotten that or just not have used his brains.
He took of all equipment and even his coat, to have the best picture of his life taken.
Moments later he fell in the crater.
Even though his friends threw a survival kit towards him, he was found the other day: dead.
Another sad example of the irresponsibility of people.
Harsh, but true.
Here is one of the common videos everyone can see.
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25 February 2010
25 December 2009
Merry Christmas and be careful!
I want to wish you all a merry christmas.
The snow is raining away here.
Such a pity, even though it's a relief for traffic.
So many more people arrive healthy at the place they want to go to.
You have to be careful though, as this proofs:
07 November 2009
passports
Representing a country when sporting can lead to complicated situations.
Because countries have all sorts of rules and regulations it's almost impossible to know for sporters.
They have to rely on the information they get from others and sometimes the information is not good.
Studying the law can be from two point of view: what is allowed and what's not allowed.
Both areas should meet seamless, covering all situations.
But at times things go terribly wrong.
A few sporters wanted to represent Kazachstan at the Olympic Games.
They got information, were told it was possible to have two nationalities and passports, someone even called the ministery of foreign affairs and was told it was possible, they were not stopped, and they thought all was well.
Until they wanted to participate in the national championships of their country of birth.
They were not allowed to subscribe, because they didn't skate the selection contests in this country and someone thought they might not be considered to be a citizen of The Netherlands anymore.
They were reported to their councils and now they're facing to be thrown out of the country because it's said they're here illegally.
One of them is a young father!
After all discussions about people with two nationalities I can understand these sporters thought they were able to keep their Dutch nationality.
But bureaucracy is so important int his country nowadays that individual people just don´t count.
It´s about rules, countrol, and certainly not about trusting the good intentions of people.
18 October 2009
the boy (not) in the balloon
This week the news and internet were full of the story of a balloon taking off with presumably a child in it.
Turned out the kid had been hiding in the shed all the time.
My intuition told me there was more to it.
How could the balloon get in the air?
Why would the child hide itself?
When watching an interview with the child and parents he said something that triggered my attention and made me think it had all been a set up to get attention for the balloon.
I was right.
The father will be brought to court, it's said.
The charges are not known yet.
06 October 2009
Gold, dollars and euros
Never ever before has gold been so expensive.
1 ounce, just a little bit more than 31 grams, was sold today for more than 1040 dollars.
For quite some time now investers have been selling their dollars; buying gold, because gold is considered relatively stable. They are afraid of inflation of the dollar...and by their behaviour they're making it a self-fulfilling prophesy.
Today some newspaper reported that the Golfstates are considering to stop using dollars for the oiltrade, and using euros and yens instead.
Even though there were as many articles denying this step, this couldn't prevent a further fall in the dollar.
Right now a euro is about 1.47 dollar, which is almost the topvalue
21 September 2009
Earthquake Bhutan and Assam
Today Bhutan and the north Indian state Assam were hit by an earthquake of 6.3 on the scale of Richter.
The epicentre was 180 km east of Thimpu, the capital of Bhutan, and 125 km north of Gauhati, the capital of the Indian state Assam.
Reports of feeling the quake come from as far as Bangladesh and Lhasa, but no damage was done there.
Not many reports are in yet, but from Gauhati we hear about buildings with cracked walls.
18 September 2009
Remembrance of WW2
In the area around Arnhem and Nijmegen in The Netherlands many veterans, their family and dutch people are gathering this week to remember those who lost their lives during Operation Market Garden and to thank those who fought the terrible battle to free Europe from the German occupation.
It's now 65 years ago that thousands were dropped at different places above the area with the aim to take the bridges over the Waal and Rhine and secure them, so the roads would be open to free the rest of The Netherlands.
The operation wasn't completely successful, so the people in the north half of the country suffered the hunger winter, while the people in Nijmegen faced massive bombings and shell attacks as a frontline city.
Queen Beatrix and Prince Philip of England will be present at the memorial service on sunday and the festivities of gratitude afterwards.
21 February 2008
6.2 earthquake in Norway
The Svalbard Region, Norway had been hit by an earthquake of 6.2 on the scale of Richter.
It's the strongest earthquake in Norway in modern history.
The epicentre was located about 140 km south east of Longyearbyen, 10 km deep in the sea.
Yet it was strongly felt at Longyearbyen (Spitsbergen).
Luckily the area is sparsely populated.
04 February 2008
21 January 2008
mid air collision
With some regularity private planes cause accidents.
This time two small cessnas collided at 3:35 p.m. near the small Corona Municipal airport and a freeway in Riverside County, Los Angeles.
The collision in mid air caused a rain of debris and killed a man in a car.
This totalled the victims up to 4.
12 January 2008
I just read about a near collision at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport, Atlanta.
Just 3 seconds were between the two airplanes.
3 seconds between life and death!!!
You can read it here
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