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STLCaver (T.Schmitt) wrote:John- I agree with you that the letter should be thought out, not an attack. I was not insinuating that. I was amazed they printed the letter as well. The quote from my first post is the entire letter. He is referring to the story of Krubera in a previous issue (that I can not find right now) T
STLCaver (T.Schmitt) wrote:A Timothy Griffin from Sparks Nevada writes... Equally grating was the shameless self -congratulations, declaring their enterprise on a par with the conquest of the North and South poles"
I wonder. You could take the letter as a complaint on the way the article protrayed cavers. The writer says he doesn't want to read about macho supermen in NG, and neither do I - I'd rather read about the caves. I was disappointed in the original article too (tho not exactly for the same reasons) which was not up to NG's usual standards. Perhaps NG will take that letter positively - as a criticism on what messages their article erroneously put across by focusing on the accomplishment, rather than on the cave...Lava wrote:I think all of us here already know pretty well what is wrong with the original letter
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