If you don't want to read the article about the climbers I'll shorten it up for you... Bascially 40 climbers saw a "fellow" climber dying from lack of oxygen, they all felt that the mountain was more important and left him to die. Here's the article if you want to read more. "dying climber" so my point is here is that it's not just in cycling that we leave a weak man down!
6 comments:
The guy was on a solo climb, he knew the risks. Its unfortunate, but if I were a climber, I would have looked out for my own life too.
Wow so you are saying that if you saw a fellow human being dieing (not dead yet) that you would leave him to die in that situation because he should have known better.
Come on, what if that were your brother or sister or husband wouldn't you do everything possible to try and save them? (what if it were you in that position)How is looking out for your own life contuning to keep climbing up the mountian?
That is horrible, and yes I would have stopped. I would stop for you Steve if you fell of your bike and had a major damage, I would wait till the ambulance came and would make sure that you were OK. I would not say that you knew the risks before you started and left you there.
- Form what I read I agree with hillary that people may be too obssesed with the status of reaching the top
Bikes are completely different than climbing Mt Everest. Of course I would stop for someone that wrecked. But the article sounds like it was too late for the guy, even if they did help him. Is it worth risking more lives for someone that CAN'T be saved? Its hard to say what one really would or wouldn't do in a life or death type situation. But its wrong to paint people out to be obsessed monsters when most of us can't even fathom the situation they were in.
He was still alive not dead, if he were dead then there is no hope if he is alive then there is hope. An where is the risk in stopping to help someone who is diying???
I don not climb and after reading this I am damn glad that I don't. Yes biking is differnt than climibing but if I were climibing and I saw Steve diying I would still stop and no I would not try to finish the climb.
Again think if it were someone you cared about it that position, you are going to leave them to die even though they are still alive?? at least try you can always say you tried, to leave a man to die because you percive it to be too late is not right to me.
aw thanks A-Ron this is good to know... as for you Allez!!!!!!!
I can relate to this somewhat. A few years ago I was climbing Cradle Mtn in Tasmania, and ended up abandoning the prospect of reaching the summit to assist another climber who had managed to get terribly lost.
From what I understood of that situation, she'd been waiting a while for assistance too, despite the number of walkers on the mountain that day (it was the middle of the tourist season). Consequently, the saddest part about this story is that I don't find it particularly surprising.
To be honest I can't understand abandoning someone just to reach the summit either. There will be another day to reach the summit, but there won't be another day for the person left for dead.
I would have thought the other group would have turned around and gone back if they felt their lives were at risk.
Post a Comment