canyoneering ethical question
While romping through Zero Gravity on Sunday, we ran into a little ethical dilemma
and i was curious what others would do in this same situation.
as the canyon narrowed (just before the big pothole for those who have done Zero G) we scrambled over a small chock stone and Shane starts squealing like a little girl (ok, like a manly little girl... :haha: )
i was pulling up the rear, so i howler to him WTF, you ok? and he says " there's a huge eagle down here".
Seems an eagle had gotten down into the narrow section of the canyon and could not get out. what was unknown to us was whether or not the eagle was injured or simply stuck in a canyon so narrow it was unable to open it's wings out enough to fly.
so here's the dilemma: What do we do now?
do you stem over the eagle and hope it doesnt come after you?
do you abort the canyon?
do you rescue the eagle?
do you try and put the thing out of it's misery? (still undetermined if injured or not, but it can walk)
for the record, this was one huge bird, and it scared me just being as close as we were to it.
unfortunately, the 1 photo i got of it really, really sucks :frustrated:
i know what we did, how would you handle this?