Wednesday, February 14, 2007

Do you think that Boukreev made a wise decision by leaving his clients and speeding down the mountain to camp? Should he have stayed with them and made sure they take the right passages to get down alive?

Yes, he definitely should have stayed with them. Without a guide the clients were in danger of making many wrong decisions that ultimately came true.

1 comment:

M. Kim said...

Yes, I think Boukreev made the right choice of speeding down the mountain to try and bring oxygen to the clients and him. If Boukreev stayed on the mountain with his clients, he probably wouldn’t have been much better off than the others, and wouldn’t have been able to help them or get help. Since he did go down the mountain and replenish his oxygen, he gave the others a better chance at survival rather than him staying up there and all the clients and himself dying on Everest.