[hattend]

Good one, but you're not thinking about reality. They don't call it the "Death Zone" for nothing.

If we're at combat at 28,000 feet and you get shot in the leg...you're dead. Otherwise, I'll do what I can to save you.

Next time you run across a documentary or see a book on an Everest expedition...watch it or read it.

[Gaffer]

I've seen many of the treks on TV...tough ones, for sure. I still don't care where, when, how...leaving someone like that shows no compassion nor humanity, much like the same radicals we are dealing with on the WOT....

[schu]

Read the book or watch the movie "Touching the Void", it captures the challenges and moral dilemma extremely well.

Not sure I would want to make that decision about cutting the rope.

That said, these guys should have made an attempt, not sure I would want that on my conscious.

schu

[Robert A Cook PE]

If we're at combat at 28,000 feet and you get shot in the leg...you're dead. Otherwise, I'll do what I can to save you.

Funny. Lots of WWII fliers were shot at 28,000 feet. And were cared for.

A hero would have tried to get him down, when every foot down helps him survive, and the burden is downhill - with gravity helping, rather than step over his legs to keep climbing UP. The man was not dead yet, all they knew was he WOULD die if they did nothing. And they did nothing. (Other than keep climbing UP. They had the manpower, the material, and the method to try a rescue. If he were dead, yes, its prudent to leave the body.)

A selfish, self-satisfying jerk continues on his vacation to the top of the world.