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Nikolaj shows off his first bit of heroic frostbiteDanish tourist Nikolaj Neilsen, who has been lost in the Snowy
Mountains for seven days, is already
imagining a successful and profitable publishing career once he is rescued. The
23-year-old fell 35 metres when a rope snapped, causing him serious injury.
"I've been keeping a video diary," he said, sheltering under an icy overhang. "I
plan to use it a. . .
Nice article, I Like.. I Like....
As a primary option for all future search and rescue operations in snowbound areas, I propose we just send in the dogs.
Not the well trained st. bernard with the barrel of brandy, oooooh no! That's for Swiss bloody tourists!
I'm talking a hungry desert dingo, all primed to go.
The sort of dog that makes an original outback mother regret having twins.
This is the sort of dog that'd make a tourist wish they'd never gone & done stupid things on a snow covered mountain, that caused them to get lost in the first place.
And at the end of the day, when it came time for the police to face the relatives of the lost/dead snowboarder/skier/highland wanderer/fuckwit who likes to bushwalk in blizzards - The police could save a hell of a lot of time and money by just scraping a dog turd off the footpath, sticking it in the fridge over night, and confronting the relatives the next morning with the phrase
"We found some remains, but....."
You know it makes sense
