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Was Simon Yates Justified in Cutting the Rope?

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Many members of the climbing community felt that Yates should not have cut the rope and that he should have held on for longer to give Simpson every chance to work out a solution to his predicament. Introduction. Members of the climbing community felt that Yates should not have cut the rope and that he should have held on for longer to give Simpson every chance to work out a solution to his predicament. However there is evidence that Yates was justified in his actions. The evidence against the argument is that if he hadn’t cut the rope then they both would have died as there was nothing Simpson could have done, which he also points out in the movie. There was also no way of contact between the two. And the fact that Simpson actually says to Yates that he would of done the same thing and he was justified for his actions as a human-being for survival. P1 Whether or not Yates is justified in his actions is debatable but also arguable. When Simpson first broke his leg he expected Yates to leave him and continue on alone and Simpson accepted this. But instead Yates tried his absolute best to try and lower himself down, which was already dangerous enough because of the storm but another man with a broken leg is nearly impossible and they both knew this. Yates started to position himself in the snow and let Simpson slide down the mountain then Yates would climb down to him. Finally they got to a point on the cliff face where there was big drop into a glacier, where Simpson slid

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