Outside Magazine: Osama bin Laden is the ultimate outdoor guy!

[Virginia Dare]

Six years after 9/11, Outside magazine has come up with a unique view of the mastermind of the attacks: "Whatever else you can say about him," writes Ian Frazier, "by now Osama bin Laden, if he's still alive, is the ultimate outdoor guy in the world."

Frazier, a veteran reporter, author and humorist, makes a pretty good case for this not-entirely-serious thesis. After all, living in caves in the Hindu Kush mountains for six years is a pretty impressive feat of outdoorsmanship.

"What, for example, is he doing for drinking water?" Frazier asks. "In the winter he must melt snow, but in summer, does he strain out the glacial scourings with a water filter?"

Then there's this: "The wind in these mountains howls in summer as well as winter; what does he do about chapping?"


http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/01/AR2007100101574.html


(Read the whole link, the entire article is hysterical, especially about Hitchens going to the spa)..:rofl: