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Giving responsibility to the 1939 expedition leader is a severe POV. The leader was the ex german Fritz Wiessner who was blamed after the expedition by an AAC committee which did its "job" under the circumstances of the arising world war II. The report was full of POV against an ex german climber who had become an honest member of the american society and a sucessfull businessman.
1978 Wiessner was fullily rehabilitated by the AAC and got Standing Ovations on the AAC Anniversary Meeting in December. The only climber who did not stand up applauding was Jack Durrance. You can read this in Clint Wills in High: Stories of Survival from Mount Everest and K2. If you read this book very exactly you may imagine who eventually put decisions to destroy the high camps. Destroy, which then urged the topgoing climbers who were NOT dead (against assumption) to a horrible trip down which may nearly may have had cost them their life. Reasons? Ambition? Intention? A possible interpretation: whatever may have happened on top of the mountain, the destroyers may partly have thought "dead", or may partly have wished "dead.." To avoid a potential success of "the wrong" person?
David Roberts made an interview with Jack Durrance, but Durrance shortly after draw back his permission to publish the interview. Why? Hm? Think. 77.11.229.66 22:05, 11 August 2007 (UTC)
