
LONDON (AFP) – A British snowboarder has died in the Swiss Alps, the Foreign Office has confirmed, despite a rescue operation that was played out on social networking site Twitter.
The man is said to be Rob Williams, a 29-year-old entrepreneur who was on a trip to the resort of Verbier when he went missing on Monday.
He reportedly became lost in a forest with Irish friend Jason Tavaria, also 29, who survived.
“We can confirm the death of a British national in Verbier last night,” a spokesman for the Foreign Office said on Tuesday.
A member of the team, Michelle Dewberry, launched an online rescue for her two friends on Twitter, which lets users share what they are doing at any given moment in brief text messages on computers or mobile telephones.
She wrote: “2 of our ski party been missing since 4pm. Conditions terrible. 1 guy found but trapped. 20 man team searching for other.”
Did you know that every time you send a tweet, a bird is shot and killed? It’s true. Google that shit.
When I read this article, all I could think of is how pissed I would be if I was freezing my ass off, lost on a mountain, and I found out that my friends were Twittering. Are people this fucking lazy? Go get the Saint Bernard with the hot cocoa, and get your ass up on that mountain!
What did this chick think? The Twitterazzi was going to link up satellites to find her friend, then everyone was going to pitch in via Paypal to charter a helicopter that would fly in and rescue him?