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Blakey
Trad climber
Sierra Vista
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Topic Author's Original Post - Nov 16, 2012 - 03:48am PT
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A sad and timely follow up to the Veterans thread. A very brave man has died....
Birger Stromsheim, one of the Norweigan saboteurs involved in the Norsk Hydro Plant raid has died aged 101.
Op Gunnerside was one of SOEs most successful operations and played a key part in the disruption of the Nazis development of a nuclear weapon.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/9681540/Birger-Stromsheim.html
Wow!
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Bad Climber
climber
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Nov 16, 2012 - 09:16am PT
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Thanks, Blakey. Talk about serious sacks on those boys. Damn. I saw the movie about this key event years ago but didn't remember much. It's hard to imagine what the stress must have been like. Well done, Mr. Stromsheim. You did your country and the world proud.
BAd
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survival
Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
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Nov 16, 2012 - 09:29am PT
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BAD ASS!!!
R.I.P my man, you earned it.
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Patrick Sawyer
climber
Originally California now Ireland
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Nov 16, 2012 - 09:44am PT
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Read the obit, wow, what a story, what a human. RIP
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splitter
Trad climber
da'Raven / Cali Hodad, surfing the galactic plane
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Nov 16, 2012 - 12:50pm PT
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BAD ASS BAD ASS EXTRAORDINAIRE!!!!
THANK YOU BRAVE SIR, RIP!
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Blakey
Trad climber
Sierra Vista
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Topic Author's Reply - Nov 17, 2012 - 05:01am PT
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Bumping this, any ski mountaineers amongst you should read this. The tale of how
They survived for several months in the mountains while evading the
Nazis is phenomenal.
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Gunkie
Trad climber
East Coast US
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Nov 17, 2012 - 08:22am PT
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Gripping story.
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Rick A
climber
Boulder, Colorado
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Nov 17, 2012 - 10:43am PT
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Thanks Steve.
Epic story and amazing courage.
I am reading the new Manchester/Reid third volume of the biography of Churchill, another World War II hero. It quotes this passage from Macaulay's "Lays of ancient Rome", a favorite of Churchill, who loved to recite it from memory.
Then out spake brave Horatius,
The Captain of the gate:
"To every man upon this earth
Death cometh soon or late.
And how can man die better
Than facing fearful odds,
For the ashes of his fathers,
and the temples of his gods."
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hooblie
climber
from out where the anecdotes roam
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Nov 18, 2012 - 12:22am PT
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here's a video documentary by the bbc on the raid. it's heartstopping to consider the possible outcome had these men failed. how does one say thank you for such a deed?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwbiRrVAJzw
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MisterE
Social climber
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Nov 18, 2012 - 01:25am PT
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Thanks for the story link, Hooblie.
it's heartstopping to consider the possible outcome had these men failed. how does one say thank you for such a deed?
True heroes, indeed.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Nov 18, 2012 - 01:47am PT
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A great and very brave man he was. The raid was certainly important although
the Nazis were really not that close to producing a bomb. Hitler thought
it nonsense and so it wasn't funded or supported very seriously.
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