[palmer]

Of course this Brit might have cost the life of those trying to move him because they needed all their strength to get themselves down. I can understand why they left him but it would be a difficult choice.

Has the question been answered yet, did they walk around him and leave him on the way up or on the way down? The "difficult choice" you are talking about doesn't matter if they did the former.

[Ditter]

What I read said they did not notice him on the way up. It was snowing and foggy and they had their hoods and goggles on. He was in some kind of a cave and laying on top of the body of a climber who froze in 1996. I think when they did see him at first they thought he was the person who died in 96. Tragic but when you decide to do something as dangerous as mountain climbing you should realize you might not come back. I wish I was in the kind of physical shape where I could even entertain the idea of mountain climbing. Alas, I am not.