What's Happened to Mountaineering?
Last week a British climber, David Sharp died on the way down Everest after summitting. He died not as you might think, from a fall, over exposure or alitude problems, he died because nobody helped him even though 40 people passed him on their way to the summit.
So my question is what's happened to Mountaineering that we leave a fellow climber to die rather than help someone that is in distress. Even Sir Edmund Hillary finds it horrifying that no one helped this guy.
Those supposed Mountaineers who past David Sharp by I know if were in trouble would look to there fellow climbers for help, lets hope they don't need it.
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posted by OutdoorDiva at 10:33 AM
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Jon Krakauer seems to think that Everest brings out the worst in climbers (at least that is the impression that I got from Into Thin Air) Everyone is so focussed on fulfilling the little ego trip of hitting the summit that they lose track of their own humanity.
As I understand this is not the first time people let others die on Everest.
Personally, I hope that this is just Everest. However, people seem a bit ruder on those trips where they invest too much of their ego into making it to the top.
1:38 PM
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