Sandy Hill Pittman Case Study

Could Sandy Hill Pittman’s affair be the cause of the massive storm that trip? It is known by all climbers that if someone is in need of help, but it would endanger other climbers to help them, it is not their responsibility to rescue the endangered climber. Sandy Hill Pittman’s persistence to be the first one to make a satellite call from the top of Mount Everest endangered herself as well as many others. Because Sandy Hill Pittman was going to make the first satellite call from the Mount Everest Summit, Scott Fischer saw her as a ticket to fame and an advertisement for Mountain Madness. He did whatever he could to get her to the Mount Everest Summit to make that call. “The previous afternoon, Lopsang had exhausted himself carrying a satellite phone for Pittman, in addition to the rest of his load, from Camp Three to Camp Four….’I don’t want to carry the telephone,’ Lopsang later admitted, in part because it had worked only marginally at Camp Three and it seemed even less likely to work in the colder, harsher environment of Camp Four.* ‘But Scott told to me, “If you don’t carry, I will carry.” So I take telephone, tie on outside my rucksack, carry to Camp Four. . . . This makes me very tired.’”(Krakauer 176-177). Sandy had an excessive amount of luggage because of her satellite phone equipment that was lugged around by the Lopsang Jangbu Sherpa because Scott forced him too. “… A tall figure in a bright yellow down jacket and pants was hitched to the back of a much …show more content…
Sandy was sure lucky that she had been with such selfless climbers on Mount Everest, she disrespected everybody on that trip, as well as put each and every single one of those climbers on that mountain in extreme danger. The evidence sure points to Sandy Hill Pittman’s disrespect towards all including Mount Everest as the main