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Disgraceful behaviour 21-Feb-2009 At 1:26:05 PM gremlin

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While i personally don't use discouraging or insulting language when i climb or like my climbing partners doing it (i'm superstitious and believe it damages the karma/flow/mood whatever you call it), however in high stress, dangerous situations when people become desperate and at their wits end, the nicest of all men can become an evil monster that would sell his mothers soul to the devil...

Cameras only tell part of a story, many are judging the rescue/recovery team only by what they see/hear and not by events which happened off camera.

I'll give these guys the benefit of the doubt as i certainly don't know what really happened up there, rather than become part of a lynch mob...

However i have the greatest of sympathy for this poor chap who perished on the mountain while hearing fellow climbers insult him while he struggled for his life and slowly died...