Un-believable.
If you really cared about the potential of widows and orphans you would not expect the other climbers to risk their lives to save his.
The group did have a discussion to determine if it was possible.
At what odds do you recommend they try it anyway?
If they have a 50 percent chance of getting him down the mountain without anyone else getting killed and he has a 70 percent chance of dying from altitude sickness along the way?
Or if they have only a 30 percent chance of getting him down the mountain without anyone else dying and he has a 90 percent chance of dying along the way?
And if you are such a Good Samaritan, sign up now for next season. It only takes $35,000 and one year of the hardest physical conditioning you have ever done. You will be in Napal for three months. If you are strong and skilled enought to make it past into the death zone of 25,000 feet, find the first climber that needs help and bring him down. Don't worry. Someone will be there who needs help. Six died so far this year.
Then you can tell us how easy it was and how worthwhile that year of preparation and the $35,000 investment was.