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Everest hero slams modern climbers 28-May-2006 At 4:10:08 PM Onsight

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There was this report about it in the UK’s Telegraph, http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/05/17/wever17.xml
it quotes one of Inglis’ companions, Wayne Alexander, as saying:
>"We came across a chap sheltering under a rock, who was perhaps hours from death. That was >probably only two and a half hours into the climb.
>"He had made a mistake the day before. He started too late and couldn't get off the mountain. >That was a very sobering reality, that every pace you took further from that point was further from >safety, and we had to all make it back. It didn't deter Mark."

I find the attitude of some of these guided climbers and their guides to be really screwed-up and undeserving of respect. Good on Hillary for speaking out on this. He wasn’t there but the principle he’s referring to hasn’t (or shouldn’t have) changed over time.