15 People Reportedly Walk Passed Distressed Korean Climber Before His Death
The Joong Ang Ilbo has a report about what happened to the Korean climber who went missing in the Karakoram Range:
![Vitaly Lazo, left, a Russian mountaineer and rescuer, in this photo taken with Kim Hong-bin, in what Lazo recalls was 10 minutes before Kim's possibly fatal fall. The photo was posted on Risk.ru in an account cited to have been written by Lazo. [VITALY LAZO]](https://i0.wp.com/koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/data/photo/2021/07/26/665fc851-0508-4362-aea2-74c9c7102f00.jpg?w=640&ssl=1)
A Russian who tried to rescue stranded Korean mountaineer Kim Hong-bin said at least 15 climbers passed by Kim without offering any help.
Joong Ang Ilbo
Kim, the first Korean mountaineer with a physical impairment to climb all 14 peaks of the Himalayan and Karakoram mountains more than 8,000 meters (26,250 feet) above sea level, fell down a crevasse while trying to descend the 14th, Broad Peak on the border of Pakistan and China, on July 18.
Russian mountaineer Vitaly Lazo reported on Risk.ru, a website with posts from mountaineers, that he and fellow rescuers received a report that same night that a Russian climber named Anastasia Runova had fallen through a crevasse on Broad Peak and needed help.
You can read more at the link, but according to the report if someone would have stopped to help the exhausted porter trying to rescue Kim Hong-bin, he may have been saved. Instead his body will probably forever be lost on that mountain.
1st, leaving someone to die should be as psychologically painful as literally stabbibg them to death.
2nd, this type of inhumanity is commonplace on the highest peaks, because:
a.The environment is so extreme that other climbers would die trying to save someone, and
b. The amoral illegitimi are too interested in getting their view of the summit.
3rd, mountain climbers are really as abhorrent as this story and my commentary make them aeem to be. If you doubt this, read their books.
May the living repent and seek redemption from their cold-blooded past.