Everest Ethics: Update

Today, I found this article about Mark Inglis' (the double-amputee) decision to leave David Sharp to die.

Also, apparently yet another climber, an Australian named Lincoln Hall, who had summitted on Thursday, and who had lost a German team-mate, started to hallucinate and weaken on his descent. The Sherpas who were with him radioed the team leader at base camp (or a lower camp at any rate, I assume) who told them to leave him since they were out of oxygen. He was basically given up for dead. But surprise, surprise, he was found to have survived the night and was discovered alive the next day by an American climber, Dan Mazur. Rescue operations are under way.

Wow, it really looks like they're having good weather up there, with people summitting left, right and center!