Comments:Swiss mountaineer Erhard Loretan dies in climbing accident

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Comments from feedback form - "He died very young in enjoying..."020:37, 1 May 2011
Shaking babies?220:26, 1 May 2011
52nd birthday??315:53, 30 April 2011

Comments from feedback form - "He died very young in enjoying..."

He died very young in enjoying what he love to do many will miss him

92.18.120.29 (talk)20:37, 1 May 2011

Shaking babies?

Yikes! I'm surprised he got a four-month sentence!

128.135.100.102 (talk)07:02, 30 April 2011

Manslaughter's a lucky conviction for him, too. A lot of places would go for broke with a murder trial.

Blood Red Sandman (Talk) (Contribs)15:47, 1 May 2011

Especially since "to stop him from crying" is the typical excuse in those cases.

Mattisse (talk)20:26, 1 May 2011
 
 

52nd birthday??

if he was 11 years old when he started climbing in 1982 then he could not have been 52 when he died. 156.8.251.250 (talk) 15:49, 30 April 2011 (UTC)

156.8.251.250 (talk)15:49, 30 April 2011

Indeed. But the article doesn't say that — it says that he started climbing when he was eleven. It then goes on to say that he climbed a certain peak in 1982.

μchip0815:51, 30 April 2011
 

Sorry, I correct myself. Did not see the period/full stop. A result of old age! 156.8.251.250 (talk) 15:52, 30 April 2011 (UTC)

156.8.251.250 (talk)15:52, 30 April 2011
 

"In 1982, he climbed his first 8,000-meter peak ...". He did not start climbing in 1982. He started climbing at the age of eleven.

Mattisse (talk)15:53, 30 April 2011