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Pleasant way to depart: death on the Brecon Beacons
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by YankeeJim | September 26, 2011 at 05:31 am
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A young gentleman went hiking with some teens in Brecon Beacons, mid Wales this weekend and died of apparent heart attack. That is sad for all concerned, I am certain. Yet, I have to share this feeling that I have about the place.
Someday, I am going to approach the end of life, and if I could, I would like it to be on a walk in Brecon Beacons, or on a stroll down the main street in Talgarth, Wales, home of my ancestors.
Henry George and his wife, Mary Bevans departed in the late 1700s for America. The townsfolk took up a collection and sent the pair to the new country to settle a Welsh Community. They first landed in Chester Pennsylvania (port town of Philadelphia). They met a trail guide who would assist them assemble a wagon train to the Northwest Territory, destination, Ohio country.
They had with them pigs and cows and a small family. One can only imagine the difficulty leaving their lovely homeland and small village for a destination in the crude and wild territory.
Henry was minister and when they arrived, he built a cabin for their living, pens for the animals, and a church building that began with an outdoor fireplace that would be eventually encapsulated by a building.
Wolves ate their pigs. Bears killed the cows. They had to survive with help from Native Americans who weren’t that pleased with their arrival.
They made their home in a location that had much of the appearance of Wales, with rolling hills and forest. They worked to establish a Welsh community there, even though William Penn advised against making it an ethnic enclave.
The community bears cultural remnants of the Welsh farming country, though for some reason inside, I long to journey back to Talgarth to see in the distance the Black Mountains.
“Walker, 50, dies on top of Corn Du in Brecon Beacons
A 50-year-old man has collapsed and died on a mountain top in the Brecon Beacons.
He was accompanying a group of teenagers from Dorset on a walking expedition on Corn Du when the alarm was raised at 13:30 BST on Saturday.
Two mountain rescue teams, police and an air ambulance were alerted.
Penny Brockman of Central Beacons Mountain Rescue Team said rescuers reached the man within minutes but it was too late.
"Our team were providing support for a two-day mountain event and were on the scene within minutes," she explained.
"I'd like to pay tribute to the members of the public who were first on the scene and did everything they could to save the gentleman."
Ms Brockman said everyone involved had been left shocked and saddened by the incident, which she described as very rare.
"We would like to pass on our condolences to the gentleman's family," she said.
Corn Du, next to Pen y Fan, is the second highest peak in South Wales at 873m (2,864 ft).”
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at 06:19 on September 26th, 2011
Hey, look at the bright side.