To: Mr. Brightside
I just have to wonder, in this day and age, if the REAL reason they didn't attempt a rescue was because of the condition of his arms and legs. Perhaps they played God and decided that his "quality of life" wouldn't be "worth it" considering he would probably be a quadruple amputee if he survived.
6 posted on
06/14/2006 6:10:55 AM PDT by
Reddy
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To: Reddy
Not likely. They saved themselves. In such an environment it is impossible to assist anyone down. This is not rock-hopping in the Tetons. Everyone on such a climb is in grave danger. Considering the degree of frost-bite and the likely incoherent state, it would be impossible for several people to get him down without dying themselves. Hillary is a great climber, but in this case I think he spoke ill of a fellow Kiwi before all the facts were in.
14 posted on
06/14/2006 6:23:03 AM PDT by
usafsk
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To: Reddy
I imagine it's even harder to carry a "big" man who's partially frozen solid.
35 posted on
06/14/2006 7:31:54 AM PDT by
wouldntbprudent
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To: Reddy
I just have to wonder, in this day and age, if the REAL reason they didn't attempt a rescue was because of the condition of his arms and legs. Perhaps they played God and decided that his "quality of life" wouldn't be "worth it" considering he would probably be a quadruple amputee if he survived. That's unlikely, considering that the expedition leader was a double amputee (and risked losing more by making this climb).
To: Reddy
More likely the fact that the man's arms and legs were frozen meant he would have been unable to provide any assiatance at all in the rescue and would have been a 'dead weight'. Remembering that he was a 'big' man means he would have been impossible to carry out.
80 posted on
06/14/2006 6:36:33 PM PDT by
DugwayDuke
(Stupidity can be a self-correcting problem.)
To: Reddy
No, apparently this party (the second group) SAW him on the way up, but he was frozen (literally) stiff sitting in the position (on top of) a previous dead climber - thought the new guy was the previously dead guy, and went by.
It sounds like the attempt to rescue was tried by the Sherpa - but it's not real clear whether that effort was seen by others, was done behind their backs after the group passed.
Certainly, by the time they came back down, he had been dead a while.
114 posted on
06/15/2006 5:18:26 AM PDT by
Robert A Cook PE
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