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Examples of Endurance - Doug Scott

I did not think anyone except Mr. Scott would have had the physical and mental strength to make it down the mountain with two broken legs - Chris Bonington -

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Doug Scott's background

What makes Doug Scott such a great example?

Doug Scott's background

Doug Scott was a well known mountaineer who when climbing The Ogre, with Chris Bonington, broke both legs and had to crawl down the mountain on his knees. It is notable that Doug's account of the eight-day descent, made without any way to call for help, became one of the defining survival stories of British mountaineering.

Information sourced from Wikipedia.

Doug Scott (29 May 1941 - 7 December 2020) was an English mountaineer and climbing author, part of the team that made the first ascent of the south-west face of Everest in 1975, and, with Chris Bonington, the first ascensionist of The Ogre in 1977. - Wikipedia

NB. I have included Chris Bonington in the Venus & Mars pairings, because although the are just over two degrees apart, his chart is set for midday - no time being known - so an earlier time would have seen a closer position. Also, they occupy the same middle tri-degree of Cancer, which is too significant to ignore.

What makes Doug Scott such a great example?

We don't have a birth time for Doug, but even so the striking feature of his natal chart is that he has natal Sun square natal Mars, and that at the time of his descent from The Ogre, he has just had Mercury conjunct natal Pluto, and had Venus conjunct Sun, Mars conjunct Uranus, and Uranus trine Mars. N.B. a trine is the next nearest thing to a conjunction, elementally.

We really need to take Doug Scott's example in contrast to those of Joe Simpson and Aron Lee Ralston who had experiences in some ways similar to that of Doug.

Doug Scott birthchart with transits on outer for when he crawled down The Ogre on his knees, with both legs broken at the ankle.