Hull's leading mountaineering superstar with his thoughts on deaths on Everest...
If you haven't read it yet and you have the remotest interest in the ongoing death on Everest story, head on over to Andy Kirkpatrick's blog for a brutal but realistic take on the whole commercial mountaineering circus: “If you have to step over a dead body half way up then it’s classed as walk. On real climbs the bodies fall to the bottom” he says darkly, and that's just the start of it...
The full blog post's at www.andy-kirkpatrick.com/blog/view/everest_sucking_on_the_barrel