ILUVSWTAS wrote:You seem to hold a personal grudge against this guy jdek?
As someone else said he just replaced some stuff he had originally set out with but lost along the way. No issue there for me.
That's a pretty gross assumption to jump to. No grudges here, just calling it how it is, by Lou-Phi's own log in fact. He was resupplied.
He set out with food but lost that along the way too - hypothetically, would you still call it 'unresupplied' if he picked up some impromptu snacks along the way to replace any food deemed 'lost'?
Attrition of equipment on a long trip is as normal as consumption of food. Getting a new torch halfway because of unforeseen circumstances (of his own making) is no different to getting a new tent, raft, sleeping bag...or food. They're all supplies - inconsistent to say that replenishing one doesn't count because you didn't supplement another.
Doesn't matter how you spin the reasons as to why he chose to - he's finishing with gear he didn't have when he started. That doesn't diminish his efforts made, but by definition, we can't call the trip unresupplied.
beardless wrote:Whatever view you take it is without resupply of consumables food and fuel.
And even to date it is a phenomenal acchievement and story.
That's a more accurate descriptor, I'd agree.