Mark Inglis: an adventurer who's realised his dreams

Find out about the feats of Mark Inglis, a mountaineer and double amputee who has realised his dreams

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[deltingfc]

Hope the decision to leave David Sharp haunts Inglis's every waking moment. He justified it with "at 8,500 metres it's extremely difficult to keep yourself alive, let alone anyone else alive." Well my good sir You yourself would be dead without have-being rescued from an impossible situation, or had you just forget that :).

[HerrKorbes]

No, I think you are wrong in this instance. As I said earlier, he was able to communicate after they gave him oxygen. But that of course was after he had to endure nine more hours of bitter coldness and the lack of oxygen. We will never know what Sharps state was, when they passed him the first time.It's likely that he was doomed to die, but there is always that small chance, that you read about in newspaper articles when the odds of survival seem almost comically low, but somehow people survive

[loner1878]

@HerrKorbes

Sharp made his own fatal mistakes. He climbed alone, without enough oxygen or a radio, at the wrong time of day and without proper gloves.

Sharp's own mother and brother have come out saying the other climbers are not to blame for his death.

[loner1878]

@HerrKorbes

Wrong, some did approach him and found him unable to move or communicate with them (others thought he was another dead body). At that intense altitude, its all you can do to keep yourself alive and moving. A bottle of oxygen would have done little. In the death zone, that is pretty much a death sentence if you can't walk or consciously communicate. No one can just strap you on their backs and carry you down the steep trails.

[HerrKorbes]

@loner1878 Are you kidding me? None of the 30 people in Inglis' party has approached Sharp to find out what condition he was in. They just didn't know how immovable he was or whether a bottle of oxygen could get him lucid again. They just did not know! It is that simple, they were not able to assess the situation. I do not criticize Inglis and his party for not being able to save Sharp but for not contacting him.

[loner1878]

@HerrKorbes

"one has to try"

Spoken like someone with zero clue of climbing at high elevation, let alone Mt Everest. Come back when you get some basic knowledge of the realities of the DEATH ZONE.

There was nothing that could be done for Sharp by the time the expedition arrived. There were too few Sherpas or experienced climbers to attempt a rescue, it was dark as night and any rescue attempt would have had to wait hours until daylight came.

[HerrKorbes]

Yes you climb the Everest on your own risk and yes Sharp was stupid for trying to climb the summit on his own. But that doesn't excuse Inglis or his team from helping a man that is going to die if left alone. Even if chances for Sharps survival were not good, one has to try.

[loner1878]

@barnetthejosh

So nyou're staying ignorant of the realities of climbing the mountain. Good for you.

[barnetthejosh]

@loner1878 I don't need to climb everest to see what happened

[barnetthejosh]

@magicmutley Totally agree with you