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CNET Editor James Kim, a well known technologist, was located today after a tragic turn of events in Oregon. Not to rehash the details of the circumstance, but we’d like to note the following details as they have become available.

MSNBC reports that Kim was located alive, but rescue workers couldn’t reach him. When they finally could, he was, sadly, deceased.

Searchers told NBC News that they located Kim on Tuesday and at one point they were able to make direct contact with him. They explored ways to lower a medic to the area, they said, but it was not immediately clear whether that attempt ultimately failed or was too late to save Kim.

Rescuers frantically tried to work out ways to reach Kim in the impassable snow-jammed area over the next hours, Anderson said, but they couldn’t make it in time.

“Yeah, you do take it personally, and it’s been tough,” Anderson said Wednesday.

The news of Kims death was widely reported online, and we’ve all become a little tougher in regard to how crass the web can be, but these images below, taken from news site kgw.com, are just another example of how low the web can go.

http://www.kgw.com/home_img/Emergencies/KimBody411.jpg
http://www.kgw.com/home_img/Emergencies/KimAlive411.jpg

(Mirrored here, in case they are later removed)

Ugh.

Regardless, our deepest sympathies for the Kim family and friends. Very tragic, very unfortunate incident.

[edit]Just discovered, based on the Wikipedia page, that we shared a birthday, August 9th.