UKC

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jun/18/mountaineers-land-plane-400-m...

WTAF?

That's more than a little odd, if true. Any ideas?

b

Obviously the Swiss way of avoiding the newly implemented permit scheme...

Cheers

Dave

Whilst your smiley says you're joking, I think that may be precisely the point

I'd have thought it was obvious. Heliskiing on Mt Blanc - and the rest of France - has been banned since 1985, and this is essentially no different even though it was a small plane.

Love it. Genius. 

Everest next in memory of Maurice Wilson.

That would scatter the queues. “Incoming!”

b

How did the police manage to get up to intercept them so fast if they had 400m vertical left to go? Did they land a plane too?

A helicopter's already landed on the summit of Everest if you missed the news story (it's easy to Google it)

In a police plane obviously

No different from the problem that's blighting Everest or Kili or any small British mountain of too many people underestimating the dangers. We've all seen people on The Ben in sandals and summer frocks and on Everest there's the added commercial element with corruption and rich folk eager to prove themselves for reasons of ego or to impress others or whatever. 

I'll admit that at a young age my brother and I wanted to climb Mont Blanc with no knowledge of Alpine techniques or the dangers especially the Couloir. We thought it couldn't be any worse than a winter's day out in the Cairngorms.   

I guess one day when the oil has run out and 99% of people have starved to death or we've blown ourselves to bits in nuclear armageddon the situation will right itself and poor old Mother Earth will be able to regain her equilibrium. 

I'm not entirely sure if the intended tone of your comment has carried successfully over the internet, but the PGHM are allowed to fly their helicopters wherever they bloody well like, thank you very much.