http://www.metafilter.com/tags/Mt.Hood Posts tagged with 'Mt.Hood' at MetaFilter. Sat, 16 Dec 2006 09:06:45 -0800 Sat, 16 Dec 2006 09:06:45 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/57069/At%2Dwhat%2Dcost <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/12/16/missing.climbers.ap/index.html">Rescuers plan biggest search yet,</a> using helicopters, a C-130 aircraft, infrared equipment, and scores of volunteers to search for 3 climbers trapped on Mt. Hood. But at what cost in dollars and lives? A 1998 rescue of two climbers on Mt. McKinley cost $221,818. And <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mt_Hood#Climbing_accidents">Mt. Hood</a> is no stranger to climbing accidents: in 2002, an Air Force helicopter <a href="http://www.pmru.org/pressroom/headlines/hoodbergschrund053002.html">crashed </a><small><a href="http://youtube.com/watch?v=fhfJDq_I1HA">[youtube]</a></small> while trying to rescue nine climbers swept into a crevasse. Is it time to revisit the debate over who should pay for dangerous, high-profile mountain rescues? <small>[More inside]</small> tag:metafilter.com,2006:site.57069 Sat, 16 Dec 2006 09:06:45 -0800 Climbing Mt.Hood mthood Rescue googly