Bear in mind the conditions around said body. It's not a nice place. It's hazardous enough that this particular mountaineer, with presumably a lot of skill an

Bear in mind the conditions around said body. It's not a nice place. It's hazardous enough that this particular mountaineer, with presumably a lot of skill and a long history of successful mountaineering, actually died just by trying to walk beyond that point. Now imagine that your rescuer, having successfully bettered Mr. Body's achievement by getting to his high point alive, now has to perform the strenuous physical labor of digging Mr. B. out of the solid packed ice, picking up his 200 pound corpse, and carrying it the entire way back down to base camp. What odds would you give our rescuer of surviving that task? 100%? Perhaps somewhat less than 100%? Less than 50%, much of which depends on factors outside anybody's control? Would you volunteer for that job?