[Hot Tabasco]

You try carrying a sled up a mountain 4 miles in the sky.

Call it a "Rescue Sled"........Really light and really cheap.

With that being said, not even our military leaves our injured and deceased behind.

There is no reason why a climbing party can't abort their self obsessed mission to help a fellow walker in distress and take him/her back down the mountain.

The fact that they don't, they should be charged with accessory to murder or some other such charge for not helping the dying individual.......

Do you actually find it noble that a climbing party ignores the distress of a fellow climber and instead of helping him/her back down the mountain, leaves him/her behind just so you can achieve your own personal goal of climbing to the summit of Everest?

Is that what your accepted view of humanity is all about?

And please, don't even try to cite all the legal documents they would have to sign off on in order to contract with these idiot outfitters...........

[Patriotic1]

From what I've read (a couple of books), the climb down is perhaps more difficult than the climb up. People really are on their own up there. It's a very dangerous and difficult thing to bring someone ill or dying down. And of course, it falls mainly to the Sherpas.

Plus, I would think that people get their judgment clouded during that experience.

It's really every man for themselves.

There are several good books about these expeditions and nearly all address your concerns at least once during the writing.

[kiryandil]

From what I've read, it appears as though once you get above a certain level, there is NO excess energy to do anything else.

This is why the bodies and the trash remain up there.

There were threads last year on Everest, and I did some external reading.