More than 40 climbers ascending Mt Everest passed a British mountaineer who lay dying and didn't stop to help.
Sir Edmund Hillary, the first man to reach the summit said
"I think the whole attitude toward climbing Mount Everest has become rather horrifying. The people just want to get to the top," he told the newspaper.
Hillary told New Zealand Press Association he would have abandoned his own pioneering climb to save another's life.
"It was wrong if there was a man suffering altitude problems and was huddled under a rock, just to lift your hat, say 'good morning' and pass on by," he said.
He said that his expedition, "would never for a moment have left one of the members or a group of members just lie there and die while they plugged on towards the summit."
Too focused, too goal-oriented, too selfish to be authentically human.
Posted by Jill Fallon at May 25, 2006 2:33 AM | Permalink