When we ask Langley about the most unusual mode of animal-related death hes heard of, he pauses for a moment, pondering. People fell in a pig pen and were eaten by pigs, he says finally, in his deep North Carolina drawl. But is that really weirder than the cases of people being impaled by flying sailfish (a woman was stabbed in the chest by a blue marlin; her breast implants may have saved her life)? Or a swimmer sucing directly into the Replica Tag Heuer watches maw of a stinging jellyfish (It would be pretty painful, Langley says, in what seems like a contender for understatement of the year)? Or the woman Langley treated who was bitten on the breast by a horse (she lived).
But while people spend a lot of time worrying about snakes and sharks, theyre far more likely to keel over from a bee sting at a church picnic. I think they probably dont think about the insects or the cars colliding with deer, Langley said. Though they probably should – 533 Americans were killed by hornets, bees, and wasps between 1991 and 2001, Replica Bell&Ross watches and around 200 people die in deer-car accidents every year. Whats the worst kind of death-by-animal, the way Langley himself would least like to go? I think that being eaten would be tough, unless it went directly for your neck, he says. I don’t know if there’s a good way.--Emily Matchar
While China closed Everests northern routes in Tibet to climbers this spring, it appears as though south-side expeditions, in Nepal, may get a shot at the Big E after all. Questions have been swirling around whether Nepali officials, under Replica Rolex watches pressure from China to keep the mountain closed while Chinese climbers schlep the Olympic torch up and over the 29,035-foot summit, will shut down access to the mountain altogether or issue partial restriction—thus allowing expeditions to take their shot at the top.
