Could Be Saved This Lone Guy on Mt EVEREST? 

I'll preface this with the fact I am not a climber. I love how the media second guess things they have no knowledge of or experience with. What exactly were they to do with him? He was alive...sort of...but "frozen". How do you physically move someone who is unresponsive down from that height? What medical treatment can you provide that would have any meaningful effect? If you take on dangerous endeavors, we have to assume you know the risks associated with them and accept them willingly. If you're going to climb Everest, you had to have done some form of preparation and studied the mountain and it's history and it's dangers so you should know that stopping in the death zone is a bad idea, as shown by all the bodies of the frozen climbers who died before you. You should know the logistical and physical difficulties of extraction from such an altitude. You should know and accept that, once you get past a certain point, it's very much an individual struggle with everyone just trying to survive themselves. I have a great deal of respect for those who choose to attempt that climb but for those who die in that attempt, they knew the risks and knew that after a certain point, you're on your own and if you sit down or stop moving, you stand a very high probability of becoming the next frozen mile marker. Blaming the NZ crew for not rendering assistance is asinine. Critics are those who watch the fight from afar and after it's over, come down and shoot the survivors.

Cheers for putting credits in the info. A lot of YTers post other people's content but never give them credit. It's nice to see something different.

David Sharp was constantly being cautioned and warned but he was very stubborn bc of his ego!!! Nobody is at fault but himself!!!! Especially about 8k feet!!!

This story is so sad.... the footage of him is heartbreaking...

It’s sad when anyone passes of course but just as Mrs. Sharp Davids mother stated, “your responsibility is to save yourself-not to try to save anybody else.”

David Sharp went to Everest to die. He had no intention of coming down the mountain. To deaminize climbers who would save themselves rather than try to convince a suicidal man at 8000 meters that life is precious, is ludicrous. Moreover, to point fingers at a man who doesn't have bloody legs and somehow say David's CHOICE to sit down and die were somehow his fault is ignorant. David Sharp had no bottled oxygen, no radio, and no team to call even if he had. David chose to die on Everest. Stop villainizing others for his selfishness.

There is up and there is down. If you're going up and someone's stuck and in danger, turn and help him go down. If you're coming down and someone quits, try your best to help him, but if he or she can't continue you might have to make the decision to leave him. It's quite simple really, but everyone knows the dangers, and everyone knows that everyone's judgement will be terribly clouded by the hardships of the situation. So why be an armchair blamer???

Great upload, 👍

That's why God made these mountains so high so people wouldn't be so stupid enough to climb them

I watch those these videos because they are interesting but I can't feel sorry for the people who climb the mountains I just don't I'm sorry if I'm ignorant I'm ignorant these people know better the mountain is gorgeous it's beautiful but you got to be out of your f****** mind to want to climb it

Now I'm a dude with know legs, one is to the hip and the other is above the knee. He's my Hero, and all the Bullshit things he's going through but no one else. 😢😢😢😢

The fact that people call him "Green Boots" and not by his name is disgusting.

The most poignant comment about Sharp’s death is at 45 seconds into the video where it is talking about Green boots. “His body is regarded as a warning; that you can expect no mercy in the death zone”. That more than anything sums up big mountain climbing at high altitude. You need to be mobile and able to self rescue. It’s a risk to other climbers to try to get you down and if you can’t help yourself then you’re a bigger danger to them. The 8ks are littered with people who cared more about making the summit than making it down safely.

Is some of this real footage

I don’t understand the question

Who wrote this title?

I'm torn by these stories, Davids, Green Boots, all the others, part of me says if you go up there its on you not to risk someone elses life to save you. (god bless all the sherpas, I don't know how they do it) then the other part is saying, you're going up there for a sport, why would you go past someone dying for a sport? Edited to say I do not blame the amputee one bit.

Anyone who goes there and is shocked by the graveyard of bodies, shouldn't be up there at all. Not knowing this fact just tells me you paid 50 thousand dollars to climb as a novice, and don't know any more about mountain climbing than I do about calculus. The first rule of fight club is that no one is going to help you, and it's unlikely and unexpected for you to help anyone else. If you go in not knowing that you are guilty of failing not just the experience level but the research level as well. How about do what Indigenous people have done for millennia? Leave it the fck alone.

I don't beleive he wanted to kill himself .I beleive he underestimated how difficult it would be without the necessary supplies . On a side note ,my neighbour died on Everest .He died of altitude sickness at base camp .I don't know what happened to his body

No blame games on this mountain. Just litter and pure hell and perserverence! Oh and a gold star.

If l had been stricken due to my own foolishness in getting into that predicament, l would have not let those who passed me by have to live for the rest of their lives with a knot in their conscience, feeling guilt. l hope l would have had the grace to go quietly into that dark night on my own terms and not selfishly have expected anyone to help at risk to their own lives. I think the man was extremely selfish, and subsequent criticism of the men who didn't "help" horribly unfair.

For one thing, SirE shouldn't say anything he probably threw Mallorys camera off the sum, it and I believe the only people that should be climbing that mountain are the sherpa and only if they want to.

I’m sorry…they blame the double amputee for someone else’s death

Mount Everest is not a lone mountaineers ideal destination, you need a team to work with you, also you need to be assessed to see if you are a suitable candidate, David Sharp had non of this, he was a one man team and not suitably equipped to summit alone , other climbers were not to blame, if anyone had stopped to help there would have been more fatalities on the way down.

Esp. Mark…..”Sir” Ed!

No one should lose their lives to bring down another climber on those high peaks. It encourages the stupids to try the climb making more deaths inevitable. You go up, you come down, all your responsibility., If you die you hurt your family, if someone dies bringing you down, two families. NOT FAIR TO ASK IT, NOT FAIR TO DO IT

BESIDES GREED AND SELFISHNESS AND MONEY 💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰🤑🤑🤑🤑🤑 IT'S ALSO EGOTISM

Isnt green boots removed ?

they tried

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Good for these people pay out your ass you want to climb it pay pay pay the price you might pay with your life also

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Seems like Russian roulette to climb that beast,even if your the best climber woth millions, deff the ultimate equalizer

nothing new here..

It wasn't on anyone else to help David Sharpe.. Im sorry. It's not selfish to not die helping a stranger.. who by the way refused Sherpa help and "I can do it on my own!" types. He died for that, sad story. No one should feel guilty at all.. he took a risk and he lost. sucks.

He doesn’t look like he can climb a jungle gym.

THEY SHOULD STOP PEOPLE FROM CLIMBING THESE MOUNTAINS ALL TOGETHER ALL THE MOUNTAINS THERE SHOULD BE NO MORE CLIMBING THE MOUNTAINS BUT BUT BUT BUT BUT BUT BUT BUT BUT BUT BUT BUT BUT BUT BUT BUT BUT BUT BUT BUT IT'S ALL ABOUT THE MONEY THE MONEY THE MONEY THE MONEY THE MONEY THE MONEY THE MONEY EVERYBODY WANTS THAT MONEY !!!!! GREED AND SELFISHNESS

Are we supposed to be feeling sorry for these men or women cuz I don't feel sorry for him at all this guy is going blind oh well he knew the risks I don't feel sorry for these people you want to spend that kind of money and climb a mountain that shouldn't be climbed in the first place well then you pay the price

its not an achievement if you have wife kids' and poss leave them grow up 1 parent, as you put life in danger .why not use that money and give them a surprise or trip of there lives,as that is a big achievement that they will cherish and remember for ever.even if you need more stimulus children will give it to you

It's the holiest of holy places to some...clamber around somewhere else please.

If you guys take the chance men and women take the chance to climb these mountains they know the risk if they die they die I guess they lay there on the mountain forever I don't have no pity for anybody you want to climb a mountain that shouldn't be climbed well then that's up to you you die you die

Did the prk with stumps pay for his medical care? Did he leave a wife & young kids who could easily have lost their husband & father? Being now even more crippled after this climb, is he unable to work this a burden on the taxpayer?