“Because he was too busy being a dead rich s.o.b to worry about his family.”
Have you given any thought that his wife encouraged him to go although a baby was coming since so much planning for maybe at least a year and the excitement that had gone into it, and that she was as excited about the climb as he was?
I would have encouraged my husband to continue with his plans and assured him I loved him.
A thread like this deserves the Teddy Roosevelt quote:
“It is not the critic who counts, not the one who points out how the strong man stumbled or how the doer of deeds might have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred with sweat and dust and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause; who, if he wins, knows the triumph of high achievement; and who, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory or defeat.”