Cool:
Q: Does this flight improve the prospects for future rescue operations?
A: The thought of rescuing climbers was one of the things that motivated me to do this project. But the forces I encountered were so powerful that to guarantee a safe flight you'd have to design a more powerful copter.
This rock brings in lotsa money for the Nepalese. I wish they would make it off limits. The first men who climbed to the top were adventurers in the grand tradition when men were men... - the New Zelander got knighted. That breed of man has left us for good - now we see yuppies and Sierra Club types who smoke pot and eat vegan.
Now women go up and also die there. That is a shame. It kind of makes it very ghoulishly democratic. Yes call me a male chauvanist pig - I am a conservative - women have no place there - as they don't in front line military roles. Lots of selfisness happens on Everest. There are bodies there still exposed from the 1920s!