criminal? like the god-samaritin law? didn't they do a "seinfeld" about that?
agreed that you're generally a low-life fuck-nut if you render no assistance to a dying man who could be saved by your ministrations, but the rub as carl points out lies when the victim is hopeless and the result of pausing potentially suicidal- i've never been to everest but from what i gather, near the summit it's a total madman's world where even very fit people are close to dying and the margin for error and the consequence of fuck-ups plain to all from the git-go - i believe, were i there, in a small party and ragged as ruins, i'd be leaving passed out strangers behind too, and feeling no worse about it than some soldier on a normandy beach running like hell for himself just to get out of the line of fire - i'm sure my family and friends would berate me for playing it any other way.