Over 40 would-be summiters passed up a dying man on Mt Everest. They're focusing on the one guy, the double-amputee, just 'cuz he's gotten the most press coverage previously. But at least his team called someone. That's more than the people who passed before them did.
If you ever, ever, ever have a hobby/passion that allows you to pass up a dying person in the name of said hobby/passion... you're officially in too deep.
One could argue passing up a dying man if your own life were in danger... but passing up a dying man just so you can say you've summited Mt Everest? That, my friends, is f---ed up. Even if he WAS a lost cause, letting a man die alone, struggling for air, with no one at least going through the motions?
Seriously, people... it's a hobby. I know, it's a lifelong ambition, an $80,000 investment, blah blah blah. Grow a heart and cut the excuses. Either you choose to help out a fellow human in his most extreme hour of need, or you choose to put your own recreational ambition first. It's your choice, really... but if you choose the latter, don't be expecting an invite to dinner at my house, because I pick my friends more wisely than that, I'd like to think.
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Not to trivialize, but do you know what I found to be the most amazing thing about this story? That the guy got called out by Sir Edmund Hillary for not helping.
Flash: Sir Edmund Hillary is still alive! And feisty!
Who knew?
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