Maybe one of the Everest expeditions? Miss Plainwell as the Everest summit bait. Frazz as a leader, maybe Rob Hall who got stuck in the storm (ice bucket) and died on Everest, as written up in the book Into Thin Air.
Caulfield does say it is a classic rather than some of the real-life guesses. I’ll go with “The Call of the Wild” only because I’m not familiar with any novels set in the Arctic. I do have one complaint about the setup and that is Frazz being stupid enough to run directly under the basket where a kid, who should be in class, is standing there holding a rope. He should see Caulfield, the rope and the bucket and would go around it.
Now it occurs to me that we also need to figure out what Frazz is!
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Please don’t let it be the Donner party. Please!
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Maybe one of the Everest expeditions? Miss Plainwell as the Everest summit bait. Frazz as a leader, maybe Rob Hall who got stuck in the storm (ice bucket) and died on Everest, as written up in the book Into Thin Air.
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Caulfield does say it is a classic rather than some of the real-life guesses. I’ll go with “The Call of the Wild” only because I’m not familiar with any novels set in the Arctic. I do have one complaint about the setup and that is Frazz being stupid enough to run directly under the basket where a kid, who should be in class, is standing there holding a rope. He should see Caulfield, the rope and the bucket and would go around it.
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I have to agree with Unca $crooge on all counts.
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I’m guessing it’s an incident from the short story “To Build a Fire,” by Jack London.
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Lost in A**2 has my answer.
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“And it ain’t a fit night out, for man nor beast.”
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If it’s “To Build a Fire,” it will be the first time Caulfield has repeated himself. He used that in 2014.
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@beconingchasm: I think I’ll go out and milk the elk.
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