Explorer Thomas Worsley

[lynbrown]

The tributes are pouring in for the solitary walker, in the steps of Shackleton. I personally think it was a selfish thing to do, his wife is now deprived of her husband in their later years and the two children must mourn their father. What is the point of all these people who walk, swim or do demanding things that puts their lives at risk? The operation to collect these people puts others lifes at risk too.

[jackthehat]

///The trek was raising money for the Endeavour Fund, a charity managed by the Royal Foundation of The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and Prince Harry.///

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3415431/British-ex-Army-officer-bidding-man-trek-Antarctica-dies-organ-failure-collapsing-just-THIRTY-MILES-finishing-line.html

[Old_Geezer]

She would have fallen in love with him and accepted him for who he was. Someone who needed challenge and risk to make life vital. Little point bemoaning who he was, nor the spilt milk from the failed adventure.

[Elina]

I'm torn between yours and OGs answer Lyn, I can understand your point of view, though she obviously knew the man he was & what she was taking on when she married him. Though It's an awful thing to remember a husband / father suffering that way.

[grasscarp]

He wanted to do it (to raise money for charity) and could have made it I think if it wasnt for the awful weather he encountered. He didnt set out knowing he would die.

[Elina]

But there's always a risk grasscarp.

[Togo]

//The operation to collect these people puts others lifes at risk too.//

Not yours though. The support teams, I am sure, are honoured and eager to help and be involved. A very brave man dead. His friends and family will remember him with pride. I don't expect that a single one of them will consider his effort selfish. R.I.P. Thomas Worsley.

[murraymints]

I do not understand why these "intrepid" adventurers knowingly risk their lives(and those of others) doing things merely because they want to do them when they have wives and children at home...fine if you are single with no commitments then it is just your own life you are gambling with...

[Bathsheba]

RIP Henry Worsley

[ChillDoubt]

I personally think it was a selfish thing to do, his wife is now deprived of her husband in their later years and the two children must mourn their father.
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Granted, but I'm sure this is something he would have discussed at length, given his age etc.
The spirit of human endeavour should not be stifled, for a few it's their most endearing quality.

[woofgang]

I am right on the line about this. A spouse can choose to marry an adventurous person and take the risks involved, but the children can’t choose......

[Togo]

//A spouse can choose to marry an adventurous person and take the risks involved, but the children can’t choose...... //

A spouse also chooses whether to have children. Perhaps deciding that the inherited genes and traits of a brave and intrepid partner are to be valued more than one who skulks and whinges.

[jno]

the children were 19 and 21. They're grownups. He didn't abandon them in their cradles.

[woofgang]

Fair enough then in this case......my comment was intended more generally in cases where parents of young children go off on life risking adventures.

[viv41]

I would have hated to lose my Dad at 21 .....