Between the years 1922-2012, 233 people have died attempting to climb to or return from the summit of Mt. Everest. As time passes and equipment becomes more advanced, the ratio of deaths to success has dropped. The deadliest situations that occur on the mountain happen when there is one good weather window and 200 or more people decide to make their summit attempt all at the same time. On Mt. Everest there are many dangers, and to climb up to the summit the mountaineers must follow one single rope line, not to mention that there are even dead and barely alive bodies attached to the rope. Mt. Everest, the tallest mountain in the world since 1852 has been faced with an ethical dilemma that was brought up in a 2012 article. The question many…show more content… Even though Jon Henley does not clearly tell us what side he is on, but he does give clues in the text and by the questions, he places in the text. For example, on page 2, paragraph 2, it reads, ‘He was almost dead. He was dead when we came back down." Their sherpa did manage to help one of the people they found who was still alive.’ When the author wrote, “Their sherpa did manage to help one of the people they found who was still alive.” after the man had died, it was not because he needed to write that, Henley included it because he chose to. It causes the reader to infer that Jon Henley believed including that the sherpa had saved someone was very important. Lastly, Henley writes, ‘So should the Shuttleworths have stopped and tried to help? There are no formal guidelines issued to climbers, and we do not know the risk it might have meant for their own lives. But can it ever be right, in the words of mountain leaders Chris and Simon Holloway, for climbers to "carry on to the summit, while there are living people dying behind them”?’ When he asks, “So should the Shuttleworths have stopped and tried to help?”, He then includes, “ But can it ever be right,”. This question followed up with another question is an example of how Jon Henley believes human beings are more important than reaching a high
