Martial arts group leave wheelchair-bound friend up Snowdon
A group of martial arts experts on a charity climb up Snowdon abandoned a wheelchair-bound friend on the mountain because they were tired of pushing him.

The 31-year-old disabled man was taken up 3,560ft Snowdon, the highest peak in England and Wales, by the group of six from Coventry. But when they began to climb to the top via the Llanberis Path, they found it too difficult to carry him so left him alone on the path while they continued to the summit.

Walkers from a kick-boxing club in Bangor found the man and stayed with him until the original party returned. The original group were reportedly too tired to push him back down the peak and instead contacted mountain rescue.

The man, suffering from mild exposure, was then carried to the mountain railway before a train brought him down the peak.
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Climber Dave Morrell, 44, who saw the rescue, said: "The poor bloke was sitting there in his wheelchair for quite a while.

"It was a bit mean of them to leave him there while they carried on to the top.

"But other climbers went over to talk to him – he was just getting very cold."

The martial arts group had been taking part in a world record bid at the weekend to see how many black belts could climb a mountain in a day. They were also raising money for a girl with cerebral palsy.

Ian Henderson of Llanberis mountain rescue said: "This party were poorly prepared and felt it was OK to carry on to the summit rather than turn around and get him down the mountain.

"At what point did they think 'it's OK we'll get the rescue team to push him down?'"

There are a number of charity wheelchair pushes every year up the mountain, although rescuers said they normally involve larger parties because of the large effort involved.

Link (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/wales/6365238/Martial-arts-group-leave-wheelchair-bound-friend-up-Snowdon.html)
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This shows that kickboxing clubs beat out krotty clubs

The irony is that they were trying also to raise money for a girl with CP

those guys should be ashamed. Fucking assholes

The kickboxing club should have kicked their asses then left THEM there to freeze.

They think hiking a 3500ft hill = mountain climbing. Ha!

yeah, thats barely a thousand meters. Unless is up a fucking cliff, then all the guys in this story are excused.

That's some great conditioning routine those blackbelts have. How is that even a world record, seriously? How exactly would Guinness or whoever rate black belts by various organizations? I mean, couldn't whoever holds the record for 'most people to climb a mountain' just order from a belt factory (like seems to be the case here) and win the record?

The whole cerebral palsy thing is a bit of an excuse I guess, like if they were completing it for her, but hell, if you don't intend to push him all the way up then why bring him at all? Was the guy in the wheelchair a black belt too? Weren't there any non black-belts in the group who could have gone out of their way to either stay with him or take him down the mountain?

Or like, could they postpone the event? Was the previous record 5 black belts up a mountain so they really needed the 6? They couldn't take him back down, then climb up again?

I don't even understand how you can get too tired to push someone down a mountain. It's all downhill, you just lean into it mostly right?

Those Bangor kickboxers who found him should have kicked those Coventry black belts' asses.

What the hell? That's so lazy.
Snowdon is not a hill btw it takes awhile to climb due to the terrain.