Talk:David Sharp

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"Sharp was probably so close to death as to have been beyond help"

Yeah, help to keep him alive maybe, but the least they (any of the climbers) could have done was stay with him for the last few hours of his life, giving the poor guy some comfort. The Inglis party had over 40 members if my infomation is correct, surely a few of them could have stayed with him?

I agree with the second comment. If you have the energy to continue to the summit then you have the energy to help David Sharp.

Agreed.--Hontogaichiban 00:03, 3 June 2006 (UTC)

"David Sharp left to die by 40 climbers". This may not be the truth. At least, this is not the full story. Turkish climbers declared a statement about David Sharp's death. This can be found in the websites: http://www.2006everest.org/cms_en/content/view/163/64/ and http://www.mounteverest.net/news.php?id=10049

There was no mention in this article of Max Chaya (a member of the same expedition as Inglis who summited BEFORE Inglis). Max and his Sherpa Dorjee reported David's condition to leader Russell Brice and gave him O2 from their own tanks in an attempt to revive him and bring him back to conciousness, as David's O2 was depleted.

" Chaya and Dorjee stayed with Sharp for an hour, talking with Brice and weeping over the radio, until Brice was finally able to talk his climber down. When Chaya at last returned to High Camp he was inconsolable. He collapsed in his tent and cried for two hours." http://climb.mountainzone.com/2006/david_sharp/index.html

A side note to the previous discussion about a rescue...How can you even justify risking the lives of 10+ people (the min. necessary to rescue a man of David's size and weight at such an altitude) to rescue 1 man in a hypoxic state, near death? It was not 100% that rescue was even possible due to his location (the rock cave where he passed away was precariously located below the Second Step by the Exit Cracks...very narrow rocky ledges making a rescue at that location next to IMPOSSIBLE). On top of that, chances for his recovery before a complete descent were VERY close to, if not, nil. There was an extremely high chance that given the state he was in (unconscious, shivering, frostbitten nose/face, frozen limbs) that he would have passed away in High Camp. Even David's mother contends that "Your responsibility is to save yourself, not to try to save any body else."

But this is a debate that does not belong on the discussion page, especially if the disputed line was quoted from a legitimate source. Sources for this incident are all skecthy due to the lack of clear and concise information. Altitude completely affects the brain and memory of climbers, due oxygen deprivation and we may never know for sure the accurate circumstances behind this grave tragedy.

Agree, with you but we are not here to gave our point of view. The article state that there is a controversy. Gave the two point of view with some balance... That's it ! If you think there is a lack of balance or that some event need to be included... Feel free to edit it Cperroquin 08:36, 19 August 2007 (UTC)