EVeryday Hero: Do you give up your dream to save a life?

Those who read "Into Thin Air" know that a few of the climbers caught in the Mt. Everest storm were left for dead...and one left for dead revived and managed to get himself down, while the other died...and that the National Geographic camera crew gave up filming to save the lives of others.

Well, a couple weeks ago, a man was left for dead, not only by those exhausted and only having enough energy to save themselves, but by several climbers who passed him going UP Mt. Everest...The climb was more important than saving a life.
Even Sir Edmund Hillary was horrified.

The good news:
KATMANDU, Nepal - Just days after a British climber was left to die near Mount Everest's summit, an American guide abandoned his second bid to stand on top of the world so he could rescue a mountaineer mistakenly given up for dead....
I was shocked to see a guy without gloves, hat, oxygen bottles or sleeping bag at sunrise at 28,200 feet height, just sitting up there," said Mazur, who scaled Everest once before, from the southern side, in 1991.

Mazur said Hall's first words to him were: "I imagine you are surprised to see me here."
Mazur said he knew Hall was OK because he was not crying for help and still had a sense of humor.

Mazur's team spent the next four hours pulling Hall away from the slopes, giving him bottled oxygen, food and liquids.Hall's rescue came just days after David Sharp, 34, died May 15, about 1,000 feet into his descent from the summit. Dozens of people walked right past him, unwilling to risk their own ascents.

But Mazur had no regrets.

"Oh yeah, it was worth it," he said. "You can always go back to the summit but you only have one life to live. If we had left the man to die, that would have always been on my mind ... How could you live with yourself?"