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She reached the summit in 2012 and became the landmark corpse in your link. The Canadian flag. It turned out she'd had very limited climbing experience and had previously been hospitalised after going on hunger strike for lower motor insurance premiums. A disgraceful documentary/hagiography about her tried to blame the sherpas for what happened.
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I remember reading quite a lot about her at the time. I was left with the impression that the tour operator was largely to blame as they had instilled false confidence in her. Apparently she had been fairly honest about having an average level of fitness and they had told her she would be fine as long as she walked stairs a lot.
On the same topic I also found a weird article in the Daily Mail where a BRITISH HERO! had walked past her dying on the way down, realised that the lady was dying but basically just walked on because that's what you do when you're a high achieving go getter.
On the same topic, I just found this quote from the same Brit in an Australian paper:
" ... "There was another man who was almost dead," said Ms Shuttleworth. "He was sitting attached to an anchor and he was rocking and I just thought it was a dead body rocking in the wind, but as we passed he raised his arm and looked at us. He didn't know anyone was there. He was almost dead. He was dead when we came back down. ..."
starfish&coffee
Another internet opportunity to pitch my Mt. Everest zombie movie.
Since it is almost impossible to carry a dead person down the mountain there is currently a considerable number of frozen alpha males up there*. My movie starts with a group of these muppets aspiring to climb the mountain, but soon shifts to a group of Western hippie types elsewhere in the Himalayas, white kids with dreadlocks basically. The hippies start doing some supposedly healing shamanistic rituals, but these rituals backfire and instead the frozen climbers on the mountain come to life as zombies. Unlike other zombie movies, these creatures can still speak a little, stuttering inane phrases of motivational jargon as they stagger down the mountain and engulf the various basecamps.
*' Link to some very grotty pictures. Don't click on it with kids around etc.