The training is one thing blackrock. An ascent or two in the rockies would have not made much of a difference in what happened. It is the opening of Everest to climbers of all abilities that is the problem. A cash grab for certain. Real climbers know that if you don't summit by a certain time, then it's time to bail. The ascent is were alot perish. In a weakened state, exhausted, from the climb and the early morning start, the high altitude and cold sucking the life out of your body. Everest should be closed and open only to climbers with years of experience, even seasoned climbers succumb in their quest to summit Everest. The multitudes of inexperienced holiday climbers is wrong. It should be like the Boston Marathon where you have to have not only many years of mountaneering experience, but you need to qualify in order to climb Everest.