Beccaning Call

Truth is stranger than fiction.

Someone needs to write a script for the latest Everest drama that's going on.

Act 1. Double amputee Mark Inglis start climbing Everest. Everyone is really excited, frostbitten, tired etc.

Act 2. Amputee and co. get near top, pass a dying man -- David Sharp -- decide that there's nothing that can be done except give him some oxygen and leave him to die. Around the same time, another man -- Lincoln Hall -- is left for dead by his sherpas who run out of oxygen. American (FUCK YEAH) climber Dan Mazur abandons his hike to the top and tries to help dying guy.

Act 3. Amputee reaches top of mountain. Presumably jumps up and down, does the tootsie roll. David Sharp dies. It's reported that Lincoln Hall dies.

Act 4. Amputee comes down the mountain and everyone questions the ethical dilemma of the "leaving the dead man" situation.

Act 5. Turns out the SECOND DEAD GUY IS NOT ACTUALLY DEAD. (* for dramatic effect, he's come back to life as a zombie with the soul of the first (actually) dead guy (Sharp) and has come for revenge on Inglis.)

Act 6. Zombie-body-Hall-with-the-soul-of-Sharp teams up with the Abominable Snowman, snowboards down mountain and plans to kill everyone in Inglis' climbing group, saving Inglis for last and robbing him of his two remaining limbs, after which the Snowman will bite his head off.

Act 7-16. Ensuing scenes: Death, death, death, lunch, death, death, death, afternoon tea (Sharp is British), death, quick shower.

Fonvielle's great idea for the tagline:

"They had to reach the top of the world ... before they FACED THE DEPTHS OF HELL."

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posted by Becca @ 1:49 AM