Here is the picture. If accurate, it DOES make me rethink my support of the climbers.
But something doesn't add up. Accounts said that he was 300 yards from the summit. This picture claims he was 450 VERTICAL meters from the summit. But that distance is much longer walking up the slope.
That would make it above the Third Step in your picture and quite impossible for an immobile person to be saved.
But 300 ft. from the Green Boots cave is off the ridge and someone can be pushed/belayed on his ass all the way down to Camp Three.
Not fun....and the bumpy descent may kill him if he can not assist, but definitely doable.
I want everyone to look at Mr. Brightside's photo.
Someone above the Second Step and immobile....is dead....no question about it.
Someone at Mushroom Rock (between First and Second Step)....with just a little mobility and a minor miracle...a slim chance.
Below the First Step, and odds change to about 20% (of getting him down...not necessarily surviving) if healthy people are near.