Climbing is a very personal an non-altruistic exercise. Climbers simply don't care what people think about them, its between them and them. When pushing yourself to your limits people sometimes break, sometimes go over the limit, or hang over the EDGE and its not real pretty, nor is it meant to be. Like there was a frozen body on the peak of Aconcagua for two years before someone pushed it over the edge, simply because it took extra energy and someone had to care enough. You don't climb for laurels, there are no bouquets waiting for you at the top, you don't get to stand on the podium. All you get is another opportunity to die on the way down. Its all you can do make your own body move, you can't hep anyone else.

BUT if even one of the people who died on Everest on that awful night within 500 feet of camp and safety had a GPS they might all have survived, but then who wants to carry the extra weight?
Jim