[Neville72]

This is going to sound harsh but it's not intended that way.

It's my understanding at that altitude it is physically impossible to carry someone down the mountain whose not able to walk themselves. Climbers know that once that last push to the summit starts either they get themselves back down to the highest camp and their tents(usually around 26,500 ft)or they die on the mountain.

That altitude is called the zone of death and for a good reason. It takes a superhuman effort to get yourself up and down. Having the strength to bring someone else down is not in the cards.

If they had tried there'd have been one or two more dead on the mountain.

[Enchante]

"That altitude is called the zone of death and for a good reason. It takes a superhuman effort to get yourself up and down. Having the strength to bring someone else down is not in the cards."

Exactly - anyone climbing above 26,000 feet knows (or should know) that there is virtually no possibility of rescue there. We can argue about whether the activity itself is stupid or irrational, etc. but once you put yourself in those circumstances you have put yourself beyond all hope of rescue. Though the article does not provide all the info needed to judge, I very much doubt that any of the other climbers, alone or together, could have moved the weight of a human body down from the upper reaches of that mountain, in that kind of terrain. They were in "survival mode" themselves......

[Darkwolf377]

That altitude is called the zone of death and for a good reason. It takes a superhuman effort to get yourself up and down. Having the strength to bring someone else down is not in the cards. If they had tried there'd have been one or two more dead on the mountain.

Sure, I'm not blind to that. But 40 people pass him and they couldn't figure out a way to help him? FORTY people?

I'm not buying that. It's not like we're talking one man trying to help another dying man. We're talking 40 people who passed a man.