May 27 2006
The Relative Value of Life
Read a NYT article about the customary code of conduct in high altitude climbing: leaving the dying behind.
a British solo climber, David Sharp, 34, who was left to die on May 15 as some 40 other climbers passed him on their own attempts to reach the 29,035-foot peak.
The episode provoked a sharp dispute with Sir Edmund Hillary, the … Sir Edmund said that “people have completely lost sight of what is important.”