While I was reading the history, I couldn't stop thinking in the film "They shoot horses, don-t they?", film that was released in Spain with the less poetic title "Danzad, danzad malditos"...
If you read the article carefully you can find an unusual business in the limit of the human, that must be common in the UK. You can get a donation to a Charity (Non Gubernamental Organizations) by achieving an extreme goal. As it is said in the article, Clare recieved a £1500!! (2000 euros) donation to her Charity by climbing the Kilimanjaro!!... Several questions come to my mind: How expensive is climbing the Kilimanjaro?. (Cheaper than £1500, I hope), Is it rational to be blackmailed (chantajeado) by the donor to get such a poor donation exposing your own health?. Could you remember Simpsons chapter when Homer is selected to foster energetic food by climbing the Murderhorn?
In the film "TSH, DT", public payed to see other people suffering during a ball marathon. There was 1929 recession and people was desesperated enought to ball during hours by recieving some food, and public needed to be entertained (and needed to feel more luckily than other, also).
Claire was promised to recieve £500 after finished the Marathon. Her tragic death has refunded more than a millon. Economically it works. So could it became a terrify way of refunding, by touching the public with heroical histories?.
As film is subtitled: "People are the ultimate spectacle"
Good article, terrible. But you should have more care with the word: history. You should use history to refer a subject, but if you want to talk about the life of Claire is story. ok? ;) I am in Spain .. remember terrible.
ResponderEliminarMost mountaineers receive money from companies to achieve their goals. For example, they receive money and the have to show in their clothes the brands. ok? But when they recieve the money (their salary) each one is free to chose what they want. For example a donation. Is a business for NGO? I don't know, but you have to choose carefully your NGO. To avoid a business.
ResponderEliminarSorry, the story of a person, the HISTORY for books... Thanks so much...
ResponderEliminarYou have the reason, the climbers have sponsors also, but I dont know. This history has surprised me so much. Not because of the death itself, nobody are completly safe, but how news have highlighted the heroic more than the common sense...
It might be the Olimpic spirit...