[schu]

Agree with the good Doctor about the bag that high. There are two other issues,

1) altitude like this is EXTEREMLY debilitating, getting someone in a bag and stabilizing him would be exhausting.

2) the wind and ground at that altitude is also a huge barrier, likely 20-30 mph winds (or maybe more), ice everywhere, people wandering around seemingly lost, limited space, one wrong step and you die. Not sure how practical it is to deploy one of these bags.

All that said, I believe it to be unconscionable to walk by this guy. Who was in his party and left him there?

FWIIW, schu

[spunkets]

"Who was in his party and left him there?"

He went up alone. He went up with the cheapest outfitter. It looks to me like he never came back down from near the summit, after summiting the day before the Inglis group found him. I think he was frozen. Does that sound about right to you?

[Heatseeker]

Thanks for the info re. Gamow Bags and such. If I'm not mistaken someone has to be next to the bag constantly pumping air in anyway, so that might be another reason it isn't practical.

The old line "you pays your money and you takes your chances" holds true.