Tim's Mutiny

No I don't. He seemed to be in pretty bad shape on the way down.

I just watched that. No, he wouldn't have made it and he was completely, 100% in the wrong to defy Russell. Why go against expertise?

It was selfish, stupid and thoroughly unfair to the sherpas who were busting their butts to get him that far. Lack of oxygen or not, they narrowly avoided a horrific tragedy that would've been his and Gerard's faults.

Stupid. Stupidest thing I've ever seen. It made me angry, too. I felt nothing but anger for the foolish danger he put all those others in.

He would have summitted, but that's only half the battle. Something like 80% of the fatalities actually occur on descent. He would have enjoyed a few minutes of glory at the top, but would have succumbed to the combined effects of exhaustion and lack of oxygen on the way down. He would have died on the mountain if he didn't turn around when he did.

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I firmly believe that he should have been left on the mountain. I believe the only reason he was not was because he was part of this documentary. Tim is a rich *beep* period. This is a guy who is as arrogant as they come. Any sane person would never attempt Everest with the injuries he had suffered. He sould have been happy to have survived his motorcycle accident. That should have been enough of a sign to him to take life a bit easier and value his existence. Instead, he puts his desire to summit above the lives of the Sherpas and his fellow climbers. He's a liability, and I'll not be surprised to hear a news story of his dying on Everest within the next year or two. Mogens said it. "Bold climbers die. Smart climbers live."

Man... did u see the show? - Without the sherpas Tim would probably still be on Everest. Frozen.

The question is why Russell allowed him to go at all after all those climbers got ahead of him. I have a sneaking feeling Russell didn't think Tim would make it, and let him go confident he would head back down. I can't prove that, but after that small army marched past, the experienced folks must have suspected Tim wouldn't make it.

Highly doubtful Tim would have made it, and it's almost impossible that he would have made it down (alive). He seems like an assh*le to me. You've got to obey the leader, especially one as experienced and rational as this one. Nothing wrong with strong-willed people, but Tim put other people at risk. Pretty selfish, though I know the extreme altitude had some effect on him, made him even more of an assh*le.