The 1996 Everest disaster and our eternal contempt for the wealthy

In mid-May 1996, eight climbing guides, Sherpas, and their paying clients lost their lives connected Mount Everest. A brutal tempest contributed to the tragedy, arsenic did the guides’ determination to proceed to the acme excessively precocious successful the day. But in his book “Into Thin Air,” mountain climber and writer Jon Krakauer, who was climbing with 1 of the guided Everest expeditions connected duty for “Outside,” besides appeared to cast partial blame on a wealthy…