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interesting commentary from the mother.....

His mother Linda Sharp said Russell Brice, who led Inglis' expedition, and a sherpa had tried to help David but it was too late.

"One of Russell's sherpas checked on him and there was still life there. He tried to give him oxygen but it was too late.

"Your responsibility is to save yourself - not to try and save anybody else," she told the north east of England newspaper the Northern Echo.

"I can't say how grateful I am to the sherpa and to Russell," she said.

Inglis said at that height it was impossible to rescue a climber.

The mountain was littered with bodies.

"You have to step over so many. You have to physically step over so many."

Inglis said there were at least nine bodies on the route he took to the summit.

"Part of the route is called Rainbow Valley because when you look down it all you can see is the colouration of people's suits," he said.

Corpses, trash, and piles of accumulated human feces.

Might make the whole experience a tad less special.

Yep. Whats more important, getting the certificate or saving a dumbasses life? There's the quandry, saving a dumbass.

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?

If he spoke English I would tell him the first opportunity I had to communicate during my travel with a radio or whatever they use, I would have him helicoptered out.

You need to google "How high can a helicopter fly" and "how tall is Everest"....

Well said.

I spent the turn of the millennium in Kathmandu, we trekked through the foothills of Annapurna and Dhaulagiri which is away from Everest. 10th and 5th highest.
It is a very third world country.
Just the trek into Everest first base camp is a two week hike and above most people’s altitude tolerance. Basecamp is about the maximum elevation helicopters can fly, and helicopters in Nepal are mostly or were then, Russian surplus.

It is a great mental exercise but similar to asking someone if while traveling to Mars, in a one man spaceship, you encountered a broken spaceship of a fellow tourist, if you would stop and render aid knowing that it may cost you your life?

I would have a problem with leaving him.



Unless I knew him to be a cunt in which case I would stay and watch.

Four hours from the summit...I came across a stricken climber...................