Wetass Of The Week–Mark Inglis: According to Explorer’s Web, right now he’s on the sixth highest mountain in the world, Cho Oyu (8,201 meters). Why is he a Wetass’s Wetass? How about because he is a double amputee, and his plan is to climb Cho Oyu…and then ski down. Ingals, a New Zealander, lost both legs to frostbite 22 years ago when he was caught by a storm and trapped in an ice cave for 14 days in New Zealand’s Southern Alps. His story was big media in NZ (Ingals was sort of the Aron Ralston–see Wednesday’s post below–of his day), but the former Search & Rescue climber just slapped some prosthetics on and went about his climbing, cycling, skiing Wetass life (he called the loss of his legs “a hiccup”). You can follow Ingal’s progress here. Hope the snow is good…



Future Climber?: “Blast! This isn’t going very well. I wonder if I can climb Everest with only one leg…?”