Any tips for winter walking?

[Esther Lumsdon]

That guy who's a B/K who climbed Everest (Tom Whittaker?)
did not have a cosmetic shell on his flex foot.  I.e, it
wasn't flesh-appearing.  The part of a flex foot which
contacts the ground is less than 0.5 inch thick.  He
was not wearing the hard foam sorta-flesh colored cosmetic
shell on his flex foot.  It would be challenging to install
a boot securely on something so thin.  I guess he wanted
a very good view of the flex-foot while climbing that
mountain, so the crampons were somehow attached directly
to it.

- Esther

On Sun, 6 Feb 2000, margaret lauterbach wrote:

> >As for attachments for feet, that man who climbed Mt. Everest
> >had crampons attached to his flex-foot, and no foot shell or
> >boot on the prosthesis.  It's good to know that the carbon fibre
> >is cold-tolerant :-)
> >--  Esther   esther at pagesz.net    Speaking only for myself.
> >
> I've never seen an ice storm in Colorado, but I grew up there and I assure
> you they get heavy wet snows as well as some powder. I'm confused about
> your statement that there were "crampons attached to his flex-foot, and no
> foot shell or boot on the prosthesis." I thought flex-foot was a kind of
> artificial foot, similar to the thing on my prosthesis. If there were no
> foot on my prosthesis, I'd be walking on a pipe/ankle. ??????Margaret
> Lauterbach 
> 

--  Esther   esther at pagesz.net    Speaking only for myself.
Tomorrow, we shall be older,  ...but shall we be wiser?  -- Joan Walsh Anglund