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JHoney1 t1_j1qi3ms wrote

Feared missing? They were missing. They were feared dead lol

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3riversfantasy t1_j1qpbw8 wrote

It said 10 people were on video shortly before the avalanche, the worry was all 10 had been in the avalanche, 6 of the 10 were identified and located but were not in the avalanche, so feared missing makes sense...

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iCryKarma t1_j1qt37m wrote

What you're saying makes complete sense to me and i still don't like the usage lol

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JHoney1 t1_j1qx1fs wrote

They were still missing until they were found lol.

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foggy-sunrise t1_j1riqzu wrote

They were missing according to everyone but them and the people who know and care about them.

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djsedna t1_j1r0pze wrote

Reminds me of that mountain hiking party who all just randomly went missing and were never found. There's just one last incredibly surreal video of them silently trekking a sheer mountainside. That's all anyone really knows.

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ColinKennethMills t1_j1rwjhi wrote

Maybe this type of last image is common. The first time I started being aware of avalanches was when the climbers Jonny Copp, Micah Dash, and Wade Johnson were all killed in an avalanche in the Himalayas. I remember seeing the last photo on their camera and it was eerily lit, predawn, with a faint figure walking through the snow into the dark.

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bronxbombers5 t1_j1r7p3j wrote

More info?

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djsedna t1_j1r8gqt wrote

It was the Martin Moran party in 2019. They did end up recovering some of the bodies and a GoPro, which shows that last bit of footage. It's assumed that the narrow path they were crossing in the video gave out shortly after the filming ended and caused an avalanche.

Googling Martin Moran video will probably find it. It's totally SFW, just some climbers trekking. But the implication is surreal.

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JHoney1 t1_j1qwzd0 wrote

They were missing, until they were found. At which point they were not missing. There was never a fear of missing. You can be missing, without being in an avalanche.

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furiouscowbell t1_j1ri1si wrote

They didn't know if they were missing or they were still out

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sleepykittypur t1_j1rbsza wrote

They weren't really missing, they just didn't know who the people in the video actually were so that they could be accounted for.

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Ehwaz196 t1_j1u74dl wrote

Just admit you were wrong

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JHoney1 t1_j1u7xvo wrote

I’ll die on that hill. Being in the actual avalanche is not a requirement to be missing.

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1ce9ine t1_j1rdm1x wrote

If they were found, wouldn't they be missing? I think feared lost might have made more sense. Like when you are missing your glasses, looking all around, and they were on your head the whole time... they were missing, but not lost?

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furiouscowbell t1_j1ridxf wrote

Feared missing would be you were out and you get a phone call saying that your house has been broken into. You fear that your dog is missing so you race hope but the dog is still lying on his back on the couch.

The dog was never missing. You were afraid he just duffed off.

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TwoFigsAndATwig t1_j1tshm4 wrote

If they had the new GoPro 18++, 18 people would have been on video. In stunning 8k HDR video.

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PristineBiscuit t1_j1v05sa wrote

...If I had to guess, this was likely a translation issue. "Missing" translated from what was meant to mean "lost", "lost" as in "deceased".

So, in German: "Vermisst" instead of "Verloren"

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1nsider1nfo t1_j1seoso wrote

Like when people say "near miss"....that's a hit...you mean a near hit

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SokoJojo t1_j1qwsv8 wrote

No they were feared missing because they hadn't been identified

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