[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.

[mutley]

This is a very sad, egotistically driven revelation of man's capability for lack of compassion. People like these, who pursue extreme mountain climbing, and who easily put success ahead of any normal act of compassion, disgust me.

[laconic]

You make good points; have you read Jon Krakauer's book, Into Thin Air, about the 1998 Everest disaster? The Russki climber was up there on his own and safely at base camp several thousand feet below the summit; despite this, he left his secure position to rescue several of the climbers who were trapped on the summit in a howling storm (I imagine there aren't many types of storms on Everest that don't qualify as "howling"). Compare him to this bunch: now, I don't know what I would have done in this situation but I do know I have too much common sense to have been there in the first place.