This reminds me of Brian Blessed's film Galahad of Everest (1991): https://youtu.be/REU-8Aig-tc?si=pzNyvJkGGFicSj7N
He meets the last survivor of Mallory's expedition!

 

Big mountain climbing has an almost mystical attraction that, at least to me, has crossed a line of innovation that has diminished that attraction greatly. The use of a team of Sherpa porters, the wearing of extremely advanced technical gear, sleeping in very well engineered tents and hyper insulated bags, eating freeze dried meals, breathing bottled oxygen (lugged up the mountains by others), and littering freely as you go certainly does not make these climbs easy by any stretch of the imagination, but heading to well established base camps and climbing past the detritus of others has degraded the mystic pull. And then there is the weather, always a threat, but we have greatly improved forecasting and have reasonable ideas how windows in the weather can be navigated. Would I love to stand atop Chomolungma or K-2? Yes. Could I possibly have ever been in good enough shape to do it? Yes. Could I have ever had six digit expendable cash to live that dream? Probably, if I stopped buying ties. Would I have ever pursued such a venture with the modern support? Nope. Ironically, big wall climbing has become more and more pure. How exhilarating would it be to free climb El Capitan or to scale Cerro Torre without using a compressor to slam bolts into the rock?

 

Have you read "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer? It's about the 1996 Mt. Everest disaster.

 

Now that is a cool idea.

 

Well now this kind of proves my point:

At Least 200 Climbers Still Stranded on Mount Everest Following Blizzard: ‘Weather This Year Is Not Normal’

 

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