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RIP Dean Potter & possibly Graham Hunt 19-May-2015 At 4:31:58 PM kieranl

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On 18/05/2015 bentobox wrote:
>I'm not sure why but this just doesn't seem … right?
>
>First its reported from Yosemite, then from Utah, then from Yosemite.
>Then one article is a copy pasted one of another climber dying a year ago.
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>Weird.
>

I still don't get this comment. What seemed weird? Let's look at the (rough) timelines.

The accident happened Saturday evening in Yosemite. that's about midday Sunday here. The bodies weren't found until Sunday morning, say 12-15 hours later. Very early Monday morning here.
Remember that noone saw the accident, they had gone out of sight of their ground-crew, so until that time they're just missing, it's mostly nighttime and the people who know what's happening, the people in Yosemite who all knew Potter, aren't going to be speculating online.
So by the time (10am ish ) that bentobox is calling it weird, it's only a few hours after the bodies are located and recovered by the Park service.

Expecting detailed information so soon after the accident is simply unrealistic. Fragmented reporting on the net is just what I'd expect.