Dying Brit climber 'too big' to rescue off Everest (the REAL story)

Star Times ^ | 6/13/06

[baltoga]

I certainly will! Given that each climber probably paid about $15k for the chance to climb Everest what did these climber encounter?

Hmm, a dying man...what shouuld we do? If each us help we lose our $15k, but wait...

The fact book says it can't be done so let just assume he's dead already.

So there you have it "greed,greed,greed"!

[Mr. Brightside]

The effort to climb Everest is nothing compared to the diffuculty of getting some people around here to think. (not talking about you)

: )

[baltoga]

Without a second thought, but you on the other-hand would just let him die!

[Mr. Brightside]

"greed,greed,greed"

Who was greedy? This guy didn't spend $35,000, hire Sherpa guides and buy high priced equipment.

Other accounts stated that he went on the cheap, by paying only $8,000, using outdated equipment and hiring no Sherpas.

Sounds like HIS GREED did him in.

[abner]

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[Kozak]

Really doubt anyone who is fat could haul himself up 25,000 feet of mountain....

[SaveUS]

If it was me, please just let me die. If my arms and legs are frozen solid, and you save me, what am I going to do after they amputate all 4 limbs? Be third base at the company picnic?

[abner]

If my arms and legs are frozen solid, and you save me, what am I going to do after they amputate all 4 limbs? Be third base at the company picnic?

Please refer to all of the bad (but funny) jokes at the beginning of the thread.. ;-)

[Mr. Brightside]

Very interesting. Thanks.

[Straight Vermonter]

It may be impossible to carry someone down from Everest but this guy's size was NOT the problem.

[baltoga]

Well I don't doubt the man is going to have a lot of body parts missing from frostbite, but heck throw you in the water we'll call you Bob. Toss on the floor we'll call you Matt and hang on the wall we'll call you Art.

[Richard Kimball]

The ghoulish thing to me is that all of those bodies are just sitting up there forever, preserved by the cold, and serve only as landmarks.

I've heard some great stories about Jacob's Well (cave diving). Never been in there, myself.

Never been a climber, but if I got killed during an ascent, I think it would be kind of fitting for my body to stay there. As to why people attempt this, I always remember the old poem,

The calm is on the water, and some of us would linger by the shore,
For ships are safe in harbor, but that's not what ships are for.

[baltoga]

There are plenty of adventurers who severely under estimate their challenge, but when you take on the roll of an adventurer a moral compass should at least guide you to help others in need.

[fireballxl5]

excuse me but a key question is whether the Brice party saw this chap on the way up and left him their to pursue the Everest peak. Sir Edmund is right on if they considered helping him only on the way down when resources were critical and they were exhausted.

[fireballxl5]

excuse me but a key question is whether the Brice party saw this chap on the way up and left him their to pursue the Everest peak. Sir Edmund is right on if they considered helping him only on the way down when resources were critical and they were exhausted.

[WKUHilltopper]

<> LOL! That's a good one! Don't know how I'd do it, but I'd do something besides just walk away.

[Mr. Brightside]

I followed the link and NOW they are saying that Sharp was ALSO down past the First Step and that the Green Boots cave is at the start of the gully down and 300 yards from Camp three (an hours walk uphill, 15 minutes down)

If THIS is true, I will join in the chorus condemning the actions of the climbers who walked past.

Here is the picture. If accurate, it DOES make me rethink my support of the climbers.

But something doesn't add up. Accounts said that he was 300 yards from the summit. This picture claims he was 450 VERTICAL meters from the summit. But that distance is much longer walking up the slope.

[SamAdams76]

I think what we ought to do to make Mt. Everest safer for climbers is to build a staircase leading up to the summit with balconies every 500 vertical feet or so for people to rest. On these balconies should be heated cabins complete with first aid stations, refrigerators, microwave ovens, shower stalls and bunks. We should also build an elevator so that the mountain can be handicapped accessible (and also be used to ferry down people who need to be rescued from the elements).

This would meant that Mt. Everest would have the world's longest staircase and tallest elevator which would be pretty cool.

[SaveUS]

"Toss on the floor we'll call you Matt and hang on the wall we'll call you Art."

Pat me on the head and say "Why so Blue?"

I thought they said that he was frozen solid from the knees down and from the elbows down.
Live through that and people start calling you Sir Edmund Stumpy behind your back.

[Mr. Brightside]

so that the mountain can be handicapped accessible

You are right. We need a Himalayans With Disabilities Act!