Delaney, the first Irishman to perish on Everest, had tried the summit once before five years ago, around the time of his marriage. This time he made it up 29,000 feet (8800m), and his guide had already gone ahead to the mountain’s peak, when Delaney collapsed. The guide returned, and doctors were consulted by radio, but Delaney could not be resuscitated. He leaves behind not only his wife and new daughter, born last Wednesday, but two young sons, as well.
His company, Intrade, bills itself as “the world’s leading prediction market” and make bets on the outcomes of “hundreds of real-world events“. Delaney surely foresaw that he’d miss the real-world event of his daughter’s birth during his climb; that he’d miss her life entirely was presumably an unanticipated tragedy.
[Daily Mail via Business Insider]
bryan
Thursday, May 26, 2011 at 11:55 AMSympathy to his family but this guy is an a grade idiot. What is the worth of such risk on the eve of a childs birth? The fact that he did it on the eve of his wedding too shows up as a self centered dick. The irony of his Irish decent ascent and his claim as a leading predictor is fitting insult to a stupid death.
DANETTA
Tuesday, December 13, 2011 at 12:56 AMsadly I have to agree.