15 June, 2009
In memories of Jonny
"So if the price of failure is so high, why take the risk?"
"I don't know how to answer the question of 'Why I do this'."
"I don't know if there is really an answer, it's just.... uh... just cause it's a stupid question?"
"It's a question that anyone who pushes the limits of risk will untimely face."
"This is no answer to why we are up there, or why we are into risking ourselves up in the mountains. You know, it's just fun to be out in the mountains having a good time."
-"Jonny Copp and Micah Dask from The Sharp End"
I am honored to have known you.
Rest In Peace, my friend
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04 June, 2009
Two Boulder climbers missing in China
I will definitely keep you guys in my prayer. See you in Boulder soon! :)
Two Boulder climbers missing in China : County News : Boulder Daily Camera
BOULDER, Colo. — Two professional Boulder climbers and a third person joining them on an expedition to China’s rugged interior are three days past their scheduled return, and the parents of one are trying to organize a search.
Wade Johnson, 24, of Minnesota, went to Mount Edgar in China’s Sichuan Province. Johnson’s parents said in an e-mail to friends that their son was accompanied by Boulder residents Micah Dash and Jonny Copp.
Copp and Dash are climbing with help from a Mugs Stump Award, a grant given to small climbing teams by several outdoor recreation companies. Johnson is a film editor/producer with Boulder-based Sender Films, and he was accompanying the pair, but not climbing, Sender Films’ Nick Rosen said.
Rosen also said while there is concern, “missing” may be too strong of a term. He said a better term to describe their situation would be “late.”
Copp has been in a similar situation before, according to the Web site for the Adventure Film Festival, which he started in Boulder and runs. Copp’s bio says he once spent four days in a Himalayan crevasse before returning home safely.
According to the American Alpine Club, which also awarded a grant to Copp and Dash, the pair is attempting a first ascent of Dojitsenga, a 5,700-meter triangular peak in the Kangri Garpo range.
“The peak has never been attempted, let alone reached, by climbers. The region is one of the most remote and least explored of the world,” the club said in a statement on its Web site.
The club said the trip was scheduled for last year but was postponed because of political unrest in the region.
A longtime friend of Dash said the combination of being out of touch for more than two weeks and missing his flight home has her worried.
“It could be a bad sign,” said Amelia Patterson, who is also a climber from Boulder. “Bad weather could be keeping them from leaving, but it doesn’t necessarily mean that something happened. ... I hope it ends well.”
Bruce and Susan Johnson said in an e-mail reported by the Minneapolis Star-Tribune that they are trying to arrange a helicopter search should a ground rescue fail.
“Our son and the two climbers are three days overdue, and there is no information about their whereabouts,” Bruce Johnson said in a telephone interview Thursday afternoon.
The Associated Press and the Minneapolis Star-Tribune contributed to this report.
Two Boulder climbers missing in China : County News : Boulder Daily Camera
BOULDER, Colo. — Two professional Boulder climbers and a third person joining them on an expedition to China’s rugged interior are three days past their scheduled return, and the parents of one are trying to organize a search.
Wade Johnson, 24, of Minnesota, went to Mount Edgar in China’s Sichuan Province. Johnson’s parents said in an e-mail to friends that their son was accompanied by Boulder residents Micah Dash and Jonny Copp.
Copp and Dash are climbing with help from a Mugs Stump Award, a grant given to small climbing teams by several outdoor recreation companies. Johnson is a film editor/producer with Boulder-based Sender Films, and he was accompanying the pair, but not climbing, Sender Films’ Nick Rosen said.
Rosen also said while there is concern, “missing” may be too strong of a term. He said a better term to describe their situation would be “late.”
Copp has been in a similar situation before, according to the Web site for the Adventure Film Festival, which he started in Boulder and runs. Copp’s bio says he once spent four days in a Himalayan crevasse before returning home safely.
According to the American Alpine Club, which also awarded a grant to Copp and Dash, the pair is attempting a first ascent of Dojitsenga, a 5,700-meter triangular peak in the Kangri Garpo range.
“The peak has never been attempted, let alone reached, by climbers. The region is one of the most remote and least explored of the world,” the club said in a statement on its Web site.
The club said the trip was scheduled for last year but was postponed because of political unrest in the region.
A longtime friend of Dash said the combination of being out of touch for more than two weeks and missing his flight home has her worried.
“It could be a bad sign,” said Amelia Patterson, who is also a climber from Boulder. “Bad weather could be keeping them from leaving, but it doesn’t necessarily mean that something happened. ... I hope it ends well.”
Bruce and Susan Johnson said in an e-mail reported by the Minneapolis Star-Tribune that they are trying to arrange a helicopter search should a ground rescue fail.
“Our son and the two climbers are three days overdue, and there is no information about their whereabouts,” Bruce Johnson said in a telephone interview Thursday afternoon.
The Associated Press and the Minneapolis Star-Tribune contributed to this report.
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