James Kim
This whole story about CNET editor James Kim really bothers me and hit close to home for several reasons.
1) This is precisely why I’m an indoorsman. I have 0 survival skills. I couldn’t start a fire without matches, I wouldn’t know which berries were ok to eat and which ones weren’t, I couldn’t navigate my way around in the cold and snowy wilderness.
2) The guy worked for CNET. Why was he using paper maps instead of a GPS? Why didn’t he have a satellite phone? Or a service like Onstar. The poor guy makes a living writing about cool gadgets, but he ventures off on a trip with paper maps. I don’t get it.
3) As someone who is very directionally challenged (I once got lost in Brooklyn for like 2 hours), I don’t know if I could have gotten that lost. But I’ve never been to Oregon, so I don’t know what the roads there are like.
4) If this road they were stuck on is closed in the winter, why wasn’t there some huge sign and barricade that read “ROAD CLOSED” that would have prevented them from getting on the road?
5) I feel so bad for his wife for so many reasons. Obviously because she has two very young children who will now grow up without a dad. And Christmas will never be the same for her ever again. But also because I know how husbands and wives can argue when they are on a road trip and they get lost. Im sure at some point when they initially got lost, they probably argued and said some not so nice things to one another. Perhaps she may have even said “you’re going to get us killed”. Plus it had to be a really hard decision when he told her he was going outside of the car to try to find help. Im sure she will be beating herself up over this for the rest of the her life.
6) I can’t imagine what it was like when he had the realization that he wasn’t making it out of there alive. To die alone, in the cold like that has to be terrifying and maddening. Absolutely horrible.
1) This is precisely why I’m an indoorsman. I have 0 survival skills. I couldn’t start a fire without matches, I wouldn’t know which berries were ok to eat and which ones weren’t, I couldn’t navigate my way around in the cold and snowy wilderness.
2) The guy worked for CNET. Why was he using paper maps instead of a GPS? Why didn’t he have a satellite phone? Or a service like Onstar. The poor guy makes a living writing about cool gadgets, but he ventures off on a trip with paper maps. I don’t get it.
3) As someone who is very directionally challenged (I once got lost in Brooklyn for like 2 hours), I don’t know if I could have gotten that lost. But I’ve never been to Oregon, so I don’t know what the roads there are like.
4) If this road they were stuck on is closed in the winter, why wasn’t there some huge sign and barricade that read “ROAD CLOSED” that would have prevented them from getting on the road?
5) I feel so bad for his wife for so many reasons. Obviously because she has two very young children who will now grow up without a dad. And Christmas will never be the same for her ever again. But also because I know how husbands and wives can argue when they are on a road trip and they get lost. Im sure at some point when they initially got lost, they probably argued and said some not so nice things to one another. Perhaps she may have even said “you’re going to get us killed”. Plus it had to be a really hard decision when he told her he was going outside of the car to try to find help. Im sure she will be beating herself up over this for the rest of the her life.
6) I can’t imagine what it was like when he had the realization that he wasn’t making it out of there alive. To die alone, in the cold like that has to be terrifying and maddening. Absolutely horrible.
3 Comments:
It's so heartbreaking.
wow that was a grim post
Grim indeed.
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