[schu]

Txs spunkets, some of these were rhetorical questions! ;-)

Climbing any mountain alone without a backup plan, the right gear or knowledge by others is a bit of a mistake. Sorry he had to pay a high price.

Sounds like he spent the night up there at 28K with no Os. If so, there was really little that could be done for him. Wickwire did that on K2, bivied at 28K, he made it down, but lost part of a lung and some extremities, he was lucky.

schu

[abner]

2 more deaths on Everest reported today. That makes 11 on Everest and one on Lhotse this year.

Apparently, also record summits.