Daniel Mazur and the redemption of Mt. Everest

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Outhouse on Khumbu glacier

Sir Edmund Hillary's scathing judgment came in response to the appalling circumstances around the last hours of British climber David Sharp in May 2006, unassisted by dozens of other determined climbers who stepped over him as he lay dying just below the summit of Mt. Everest.

But Hillary might just as easily have been referring to the traffic jams of marginally competent climber...