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  • 'Raise hell' over Everest deaths secrecy (Climber Left to Die On Slope)

    05/24/2006 1:58:55 PM PDT · by Mr. Brightside · 133 replies · 4,601+ views
    'Raise hell' over Everest deaths secrecy 25 May 2006 By KENT ATKINSON An explorers' group which runs a news website monitoring attempts to climb Mt Everest says it has been battling to provide more transparency on the way some climbers die on its slopes. The group said on its website said that New Zealand double amputee Mark Inglis' disclosure that as many as 40 mountaineers continued climbing past a Briton who was in trouble two hours above Camp Four on the north (Chinese) side of Mt Everest had broken some of the secrecy. Inglis who climbed with professional expedition leader...