

If there was someone else in his place they might not have survived.
Yeah, all the personal trainer, equipment that costs more than an indigenous climber will make in a lifetime, years of training, macros, protein, and gyms, can give you a body that is 1% as fine as a human being that just hasn’t been turned into a predigested monkey genetically bred to live only in a machine.

The life blood of the mountain. The people who the mountain has chosen as most deserving. Discarded like the shit of a rich-boy college student who paid the equivalent of a lifetime for a Sherpa family, just to have a cool photo on insta for 3 days.
Why was he crawling back? Why weren’t they searching for him at some point before? Because he didn’t have a northface jacket and skin as white as snow.
Everest itself was more compassionate to him than the entire colony of mountain leeches that infest it.