It's 14,000 feet down one side and 9000 feet down the other.
Gotta love people who are so bent on getting to the summit that they'll go right past a dying person. Everest climbers are a real classy bunch. Let me guess, "The dying guy wanted us to make it."
The two most experience Sherpa guides determined that the frozen man could not be rescued.
You could have done better?
Well, it wasn't like they were in Grand Central Station. I respect the judgement of the hikers who realized he couldn't be saved. Their own lives were on the line.
It's 14,000 feet down one side and 9000 feet down the other.
Do you ever read the rhetoric surrounding a death in the boxing ring? There was one a few months back in Las Vegas, where a Mexican (had been deported for a violent crime, but was "redeemed" by a few Texas liberals who paid for his lawyers) beat the brains out of a black guy. All for the delectation of the crowd.
After getting "killer" status, the boxer expressed deep sympathy but said that the loser loved the sport just as much as he did...yadayadayada...
There's something that happens to people who'll die for a stupid bragging right--they're willing for others to die, too.
Yeah, but I generally don't lose sleep over people who deliberately put themselves in harm's way like this just for the hell of it. It's not as if Sharp were some guy who just broke down on the side of a road somewhere.