Guy Cotter

There's many, many stories like this involving climbers from the west, the east, as well as Nepalese.

People go internet shopping for an Everest expedition.

It would be like going internet shopping for your heart transplant and going, right, well, I'm going to get the cheapest one.

He was left behind on the mountain and then the icefall closed and he was deemed missing.

But this is a very common term that's used by a lot of the Nepalese operators.

People tend to go missing quite regularly.

And it's really good to hear this case where Hilary Dawa was found again, where he survived and made his way down the mountain.

Amazing.

Well, there's a process for people joining expeditions.

And in this day and age, there are a huge number of Nepalese operatives

who offer expeditions to Everest.

And it's like a fight for the bottom of the market.

They're all just trying to get in to run expeditions because the successful ones are making a lot of money.

So everybody's having a go at it.

They'll sell really cheap trips.

And reading between the lines is exactly what happened on this expedition.

where there'll be a Sherpa working with a foreign climber.

And what happens very regularly is that they'll be making a summit attempt.

The foreign climber will collapse because they're exhausted or run out of oxygen or whatever.

And that single Sherpa isn't enough to bring them