This story shows what I hate about the world today. Most people only care about themselves. You see it everyday in traffic; getting cut of by a lady on a cell phone, or just getting cut off on the highway is the norm here in Hawaii. People are generally selfish!
Well, at least 40 people past a dying man on the way to the top of Mount Everest.
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Mount Everest pioneer Sir Edmund Hillary said Wednesday he was shocked that dozens of climbers left a British mountaineer to die during their own attempts on the world's tallest peak. David Sharp, 34, died while descending from the summit during a solo climb last week, apparently of oxygen deficiency.
More than 40 climbers are thought to have seen him as he lay dying, and almost all continued to the summit without offering assistance.
"Human life is far more important than just getting to the top of a mountain," Hillary was quoted as saying in an interview with New Zealand Press Association.
New Zealander Mark Inglis, who became the first double amputee to reach the mountain's summit on prosthetic legs, told Television New Zealand that his party stopped during its May 15 summit push and found Sharp close to death.
A member of the party tried to give Sharp oxygen and sent out a radio distress call before continuing to the summit, he said.
Several parties reported seeing Sharp in varying states of health and working on his oxygen equipment on the day of his death.
Inglis said Sharp had no oxygen when he was found. He said there was virtually no hope that Sharp could have been carried to safety from his position about 1,000 feet short of the 29,035-foot summit, inside the low-oxygen "death zone" of the mountain straddling the Nepal-China border.
"There have been a number of occasions when people have been neglected and left to die, and I don't regard this as a correct philosophy," he told the Otago Daily Times.
"The whole attitude toward climbing Mount Everest has become rather horrifying. The people just want to get to the top," he told the newspaper.
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Here are the facts about Mount Everest.
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More than 1,500 climbers have reached the summit of Mount Everest in the last 53 years and some 190 have died trying.
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05-27-2006, 05:49 AM
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