![]() ![]() Yet DeWalt never made any attempt to contact Lopsang, even though the Sherpa spent much of the summer of 1996 in Seattle, and was easy to reach by phone. Lopsang was also the last person to see Rob Hall, Andy Harris or Doug Hansen before they died. He was with Fischer when the Mountain Madness leader collapsed during the descent Lopsang was the last person to talk to Fischer before he died. It was he who short-roped Sandy Hill Pittman. ![]() Lopsang had one of the most pivotal and controversial roles in the disaster. No less baffling was DeWalt's failure to interview Lopsang Jangbu, Scott Fischer's head climbing Sherpa. Inexplicably, DeWalt interviewed Boukreev but never interviewed either Groom or Beidleman. A scrupulous journalist intent on describing the tragedy accurately, in its full complexity, would presumably have interviewed each of the surviving guides (as I did for "Into Thin Air"). Of the six professional climbing guides who were caught high on Everest when the storm hit on May 10, 1996, only three survived: Anatoli Boukreev, Michael Groom and Neal Beidleman. ![]() Here are a few things Weston DeWalt neglected to point out in the comments he sent to Salon: ![]()
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