He was gathering firewood, slipped on the mountain and broke his leg or something so he couldn’t get up. He ended up freezing to death because he was gathering firewood to warm himself in the snowy winter. If it was night time and he lived with someone else (or if it was dark) the other person didn’t realize he was gone until later and thus didn’t start searching for him until it was too late.
Is that basically it, Sledman?
HUGS!
Sqrl
Lordy, lordy. I confess I have resorted to brute force searching too.
Surely the event is from the middle ages.
Possibly it involves bell ringing (!)
The closest I can get so far is the death of Friedrich Barbarossa, who “died on the frontier of Palestine, drowning in a small mountain stream, and with him died the hopes of the Third Crusade. No one else could impose discipline on the other leaders–many of whom hurried home in anticipation of civil war”, but I’m pretty sure that’s not it given sledman’s comment that it doesn’t matter so much who it was, and that the “why” remains opaque.
picmr
iampunha:
Not if he does it in that order.
C’mon, Sledman, help us out here!
OK… You guys basically have it and I apologize for not getting this up sooner. I’m actually working my tail off at work.
For this accident to happen a number of determining elements were necessary. Such as, among others, the existence of gravity(Raven), a terrain resulting from protracted geological changes(Max…roughly), the laying out of a path for the purpose, and deforestation of the valley floor where the man lived. (Remember he just started up the mountain)
The easy answer to this question is “He tripped”. However it is not that this antecedent was most necessary to the occurrence of the event. Many others were just as necessary. But it was distinguished from the all of the rest by several characteristics, it occurred last, it was the least permanent, the most exceptional in the general order of things; finally by virtue of this great particularity, it seems the antecedent which most easily could have been avoided. For these reasons it appears to have exerted a more direct influence upon the result and it is difficult for us to avoid the feeling that it was the sole cause of it.
Put simply, in history, as elsewhere, the causes cannot be assumed, they must be looked for…