If you get the chance and can spare the time the film "Sergeant York" might be useful. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergeant_York_(film) and the man himself https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alvin_York
GREAT MINDS THINK ALIKE! Who are those unwashed, land line people anyways? The Science of polling knows better and should be held accountable. Require "them" to publish "we called it wrong" at the bottom of any poll published for 5 years after a bad call.
Me, for one. Believing polling is a bit like believing witch doctors in this case. Even exit polls were predicting a Labor win. I think the US had a similar issue not too long ago.
As I have always laughed at. these polls consist of 1000 people polled, that is 0.00004% of the population, then tell the world these reponses denote the wish of the entire population. with a redundency of 1% it take only 3% of the poll to make incorrect or misleading response to change the result of the poll. Now we saw a from a newspoll (remember what a newspoll is) that ALP had a two party lead of 51.5% to 48.5% lead. Remember, newspolls are not just call centres but requests for people to ring in and vote. simply having around 20 people making two calls instead of one completely destroys the credibility of the statistics provided... I have always stated, statistics can be skewed to mean anything you want without degredation of the statistics. Polling can be skewed by how it is carried out, where it is carried out and just what questions are asked... clearly the nation needs to stop making policy and leaders based upon what less than .00001% of the population say...
Is this not the saddest sight? A queue of climbers “ like a conga line”, roped together and ascending Mt Everest. What sort of achievement can it be? The climber who was found unconscious, was climbing without oxygen. And was suffering from a chest infection days before his collapse. Almost seems like an easy thing to do doesn’t it? https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-05...ed-mount-everest-canberra-gilian-lee/11157738
All things Australia, I just finished over the last 2 weeks the Netflix series called "Secret City." Wow, it was most excellent! Too close to reality I suspect.
My fellow traveller and I were discussing this last night. He laughed and said something along the lines of 'white people'. I corrected him and said 'rich white people, whose lives have been so safe and easy that they have to go out and seek death'. Then we moved on to demonising this unconscious fool for his goals in life. He has literally dedicated himself to climbing the worlds' highest peaks without oxygen. Just take a moment to consider how much time, enivornmental destruction (all those jets, all that tramping of wildernesses) energy, money etc that takes. Now consider what such a motivated and energised human could have done with the equivalent resources, had he dedicated himself instead to 'feeding the starving', instead of some absurdly pointless ego trip.
Yes, it’s sad isn’t it? Edward Mallory didn’t use oxygen, because it was unsporting, and ascended in a tweed coat!
Market: @Sallyally Walkabouts. No guarantees. If you must, bring your own satellite phone.Bring Your Own, whatever Meet up with your stuff in Darwin. Courtesy of @Sallyally Walkabouts. G'day and the excrement nourishes the otherwise bleak landscape. Win Win.
Mt.Everest with streams of frozen human faeces- very nourishing for .... I’m a sedentary person. Perhaps I could employ someone who is more athletic and heat/humidity tolerant . Do you think there’d be money in it?
All those Everest climbing idiots. Certainly may be up for the challenge of an outback walk about. @Sallyally All YOU have to do is take their money and tell them their stuff is waiting fr them in Darwin. Waltzing Matilda and all that
How about, that's aboooot to ya @Sallyally and @crank Walkabouts. (abooooots) No Need to die of hypothermia. Altitude Related Pulmonary Edema Take On The Outback Experience of accomplishment and personal discovery. Your stuff is waiting for you in Darwin. or wherever. No! None! Zero life preserving emergency aid available. Challenge. Don't Challenge. Doesn't the idea of Everest Idiots make you guys believe there is a market for your services. Consider the popularity of Discovery Channel, "Naked and Afraid". Moi You got one helluva nation. Don't give it away to internationalism. eh
It was probably Harris Tweed but no doubt heavy. He would have sneered at the Kevlar and Gortex of these days. One day they’ll find his camera and it will prove he was first.
