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To: Mr. Brightside
You could have done better?

Maybe this guy thinks so:

The world is angry. Sir Edmund Hillary, who was on the team that first surmounted Mt Qomolangma in 1953, called it "horrifying" that climbers would leave a dying man.

I'll go with him.

9 posted on 05/28/2006 6:29:43 AM PDT by Racehorse (Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.)
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To: Racehorse
So you think that EVERY man in EVERY situation is rescuable? I will go with the opinions of the people who tried, but failed to save his life.

"Dawa from Arun Treks also gave oxygen to David and tried to help him move, repeatedly, for perhaps an hour. But he could not get David to stand alone or even stand resting on his shoulders, and crying, Dawa had to leave him too. Even with two Sherpas it was not going to be possible to get David down the tricky sections below."

"Dawa, who did not summit because of giving his oxygen to David, told this to me less than 24 hours later when I met him on the fixed ropes. He was close to tears even then."

14 posted on 05/28/2006 6:42:27 AM PDT by Mr. Brightside
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