[schu]

Having climbed a few mountains in the NW, your assessment is pretty close. This is especially true for the peak baggers, people who just want to make it to the top. It is double especially true for those peak baggers at the extreme level in the Himalayas.

Something happens when you get high on a mountain, people make irrational and stupid decisions. Maybe it is the altitude and oxygen deprivation, not sure. But there is little rational for what happened here for sure.

My philosophy has always been that the mountain is not going anywhere, I can always come back next year.

FWIIW, schu

[winner3000]

If they decided to let him die, I wonder why they gave him oxygen. That would just prolong his agony.