We are an interesting sort. We make all sorts of assumptions or guesses about what motivates other people to engage such extreme challenges - even when the challenge may be meaningless to us - and we make assumptions about what they will do and how they will act if having succeeded. I know some highly driven people who also are very humble.
Never having even begun to think about climbing Everest, it is impossible to put myself in the place of a person confronted with a dying climber and knowing what I would - or would not - do. It is one life - wrapped in very selective circumstances. Here we speculate and proclaim about what should be done in that special circumstance while hundreds of innocents are purposely killed every day - and how do we think, and act, on that choice and opportunity?
