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Originally Posted by SeattleUte
Waters notes that Krakauer admits at least two people may have died because of his inaction or action. He is also introspective of the role that peresence of media may have played in causing the hyper-competitiveness between guides (guiding clims on Everest was big business by then) that led to their stupid and tragic risk-taking and decisions. Contrast this with Boukreev who was only defensive and took no responsiblity even though he was a guide and some people in his stewardship died as did his guiding partner fischer. I think Krakauer gets ethics and credibilty points for confessing having been a potential contributing fator to deaths.
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4 of the folks in Krakauer's group died. The two survivors included Krakauer.
Boukreev was not a guide for Krakauer's group. Does Krakauer have any criticism for his OWN guides that did not save anyone?
More gobbledygook from Krakauer:
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Jon Krakauer criticised the use of bottled oxygen. Krakauer wrote that the use of bottled oxygen allowed otherwise unqualified climbers to attempt to summit, leading to dangerous situations and more deaths. He proposed banning bottled oxygen except for emergency cases, arguing that this would both decrease the growing pollution on Everest—many bottles have accumulated on its slopes—and keep marginally qualified climbers off the mountain.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1996_Everest_Disaster
Krakauer seems to be an expert when it comes to use of oxygen.