Greek Tourist in dramatic cliff-face rescue at Pattaya Island

[matman]

Is this really news - in the summer months it happens almost every day in Snowdonia National Park - North Wales.

Injured or stranded climber or walker plucked off the mountain or trails

[robertthebruce]

What a Nob!

My words exactly lol

A Nob .... is an Idiot basically, but the real meaning is , the thing that is between your legs..... hence the saying ''Nob Head''..

[Jim walker]

We also get prats like this in Scotland all the time everyday someone needs rescued from the mountains all these people who think they are mountaineer’s usually military types who think they can march across a few mountains and glens with a compass and a bottle of water to get their next badge to sew on to uniform and get lost or injured on the Scottish mountains and need rescued by the Scottish Mountain Rescue service a voluntary service who rely only on donations from the public, hope he gave a donation to his rescuers .

[transam]

I heard there was a stranded Gerbil............ ..............10 out of 10..........for the rescuer......

[Tywais]

Koh Larn - Highest elevation 205 m (673 ft) from Wiki. Perhaps they included lateral travel distance in it.

[Aforek]

I am not a climber myself, but for me this hill doesn't seem very difficult for a real climber :he has no special equipment, he must have thought it's very easy : it's these sort of person who are dangerous , I am not even sure he had water and a hat

Edited December 10, 2014 by Aforek

[rethaier]

Reading about so many comments that he should pay the rescue costs makes me wonder if when stupid people try to cross the southern ocean and get in trouble and the Australian navy saves their asses should they pay too. Oh and BTW is mostly brits that get in trouble down there.

[Lokie]

Reading about so many comments that he should pay the rescue costs makes me wonder if when stupid people try to cross the southern ocean and get in trouble and the Australian navy saves their asses should they pay too. Oh and BTW is mostly brits that get in trouble down there.

If it wern't for us you would'nt be down there, so shut your Pie-hole Bruce!

[Gillyflower]

Well Gordy Gambino... and rethaier......you're both a bit vitriolic, aren't you? What have the Pommies ever done to you? Some years back a French sailor (a woman if I remember) got into trouble down there and the RAN went out looking for her. Ah well, it gave them something to do for a few days.

[ExPratt]

Beware of Greeks scaling cliffs !

[FredNL]

Another very big lie !!!

A 400 meter high cliff on Koh Lan???

Please tell me where to find it as the highest point on the island reaches 205 meters !!!

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ko_Lan

[jacko45k]

Guess a new kind of idiot has arried in Pattaya.

Is this the high class tourists they have been waiting for?

But not getting any higher.........

[ravip]

What a Nob!

But he looks quite 'hansum' and confident in the above photo.

[LennyW]

Is this known as a "Greek tragedy" ?

[balo]

He is connected with the gods and was waiting for the Greek mountain god Ourea to come to save him.

Edited December 11, 2014 by balo

[joepattaya1961]

The guy made a not very smart mistake (mistakes usually are not very smart), but we are not all as cautious as most of us; that's what people make interesting.

[Sviss Geez]

Is this really news - in the summer months it happens almost every day in Snowdonia National Park - North Wales.

Injured or stranded climber or walker plucked off the mountain or trails

...and it is reported as news, otherwise you wouldn't know about it. So your point is it's ok for incidents in Wales to be reported as news but not here?

[Sviss Geez]

We also get prats like this in Scotland all the time everyday someone needs rescued from the mountains all these people who think they are mountaineer’s usually military types who think they can march across a few mountains and glens with a compass and a bottle of water to get their next badge to sew on to uniform and get lost or injured on the Scottish mountains and need rescued by the Scottish Mountain Rescue service a voluntary service who rely only on donations from the public, hope he gave a donation to his rescuers .

I think you'll find that the Scottish mountain rescue service was not involved in this rescue and that RTN are not a voluntary organisation.

Edited December 12, 2014 by Sviss Geez