Death on Everest

[SPman]

I wonder though why mountain climbers who proudly proclaim their code of leaving other climbers to die, should expect non mountain climbing tax payers to foot the bill for rescue expeditions and SAR? Might we not also say to those in trouble in the mountains "Follow your code, and die, unaided. " ?

Now wouldnt that cause an outcry!
The Lincoln Hall example sort of puts things into another light - obviously he wasnt quite dead enough!

[Winston001]

Lincoln Hall was given up for dead a few days ago, he was found the next day and brought down. He is suffereing hypoxia and cerebral oedema, but is alive.
I think it was from 8,200 metres.
This is quite a co-incidence really. Happening as it has just after Sharp was abandoned.

Yeah I confess that's given me pause for thought. Hard to sort out the facts from media exaggeration. Hall was on the North Ridge which is a bit easier to navigate in a rescue, but he must have been functioning to at least a limited degree.

The South-West ridge, below the South Summit, is bloody tough to take a man down if he can't help himself. More likely to kill the rescuers.

Still - Hall's survival leaves me distinctly uneasy.

[Lou Girardin]

The rescuers gave up their attempt at the summit. They said it will still be there another day, Hall would not.
A triumph of morals over self.