[Mr. Brightside]

some of the 40 man group could {should?] have tried to get him down to the highest established camp which I think would be at about 22,000 feet.

Which is still in the death zone.

It also depends on the obstacles between the dying climber and the route home.

There is one perilous cliff called The Hillary Step- named after the former first lady... ; )

If I recall, it is a 100 foot drop straight down an ice cliff.

It is near the summit, in the vicinity of where the climber was found. Was he above the Hillary Step? Or below it?

What other obstacles were there?

There's a lot about the mountain and this story we don't know.

[citizen]

There is one perilous cliff called The Hillary Step- named after the former first lady ...

Thanks, I was trying to remember that area of the mountain, it would require the guy to be strapped into a hard-shell sling of some sort to traverse the near vertical section.

And I'm sure the Step was named after Her Vileness, since she herself was named after Sir Edmund Hillary -- except she was named a year or two before Sir Edmund first bested Everest.