Pixelated Semantics

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Effectively inhumane

You've got to wonder about the humanity of the 40 people who left a man to die on the side of Mt. Everest so that they could claim the fleeting 'glory' of making it to the summit (according to the SMH today.) The excuse:

'...at 8,500 metres it's extremely difficult to keep yourself alive--let alone keep anyone else alive [...] He was effectively dead ... so we carried on'.

Though equal or worse lapses are recorded every day in war zones, the competitiveness of these adventurers forms absolutely no excuse for choosing to let someone die rather than forgo 15 minutes of fame. The result of a lifetime of infamy apparently did not occur to them as being a consequence. According to the Telegraph, the path to the top is the 'dead zone':

'About 200 people have died on Everest since the first expeditions in the 1920s. The corpses are stepped over by climbers travelling the most popular routes.'

Item posted by AutoEditor at 2:11 pm ::