Who passed David Sharp on Everest? *New news*

[Wonk]

This is new news, and changes things. This really suggests he could have been rescued. They saw him struggling in the Death Zone on May 14th, so they knew he was up there, and they saw him again on the 15th, still struggling. They talked to him, and got some of it on video, but nothing in here suggests they shared gas with him or tried to help him down, which Mark Inglis' team did when they found him late on May 15th. Inglis took a lot of heat in the international media for talking about Sharp, but his team seems to have tried harder to help Sharp than anyone else up there did, and earlier help would have had a much better chance of success. This Discovery Channel team had the knowledge Sharp was there early on and had the manpower at high camp to do something about it if they so chose, and the way I read this all they did was film him.

"My name is David Sharp and I am with Asian Trekking"

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Among those climbers attempting the Summit on the 14th and on 15th of May was a film team which was part of the Russell Brice expedition under contract for Discovery.

A press release from the production company before the expedition stated,

"An 18-member crew will follow 11 climbers and their Sherpa guides for the 6x1-hour series, tentatively titled Everest: No Experience Required. It will air on Discovery channels in the U.S. and the U.K. this year"

The reports from the climbers on Everest vary to the state of condition of David on May 15th; with some climbers claiming David was on his feet talking, one claiming he was on "his hands and knees shivering” when they saw him on the way up, to others stating he was frozen. As we said before, "We will never know the whole story of who helped David and who did not. We will never know the whole story of his summit attempt and descent... But we do know where he froze to death on Everest."

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Various climbers have encouraged us to publish this story and call for the unedited release of the film so the family and the world can judge...

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We asked Dick Colthurst, producer for Tigress Productions, if David Sharp would be in the TV Series, Dick said, "It is going to be hard to ignore".