"Let's go take a look."
"Mm."
"..."
Without hesitation, they quickly turned around and made their way across the snow, now frozen solid, toward the couple they had run into. The wife was still barely holding on, but her husband had already collapsed on the ground, his life hanging in the balance.
The couple had also chosen to climb without supplemental oxygen, carrying only two oxygen bottles as backups. When the blizzard had suddenly struck, the woman had lost one of them in the chaos, while her husband had given her his own.
As a result, although they had barely made it through the blizzard, he had already lost consciousness.
"Natsuki."
After hearing what had happened, Yukinoshita Yukino quickly turned to look at him.
Amamiya Natsuki nodded. He knew what Yukino meant, and handed her an oxygen bottle.
"Thank you, thank you!"
The woman thanked them through her tears as she shakily tried to open the oxygen bottle, hoping to keep her husband alive.
"Let me."
Seeing how badly the woman's hands were shaking, Amamiya Natsuki crouched down, took off his gloves, and placed the oxygen mask over the man's face. Unfortunately, even with oxygen, the man remained unconscious.
"An unconscious person will develop hypothermia quickly," Yukinoshita Yukino said, frowning slightly. "We can't delay. We need to get your husband back to camp so the medical staff can treat him."
"I-I know, but... but I can't manage it on my own..." The woman wiped her eyes, her face full of desperation. "Could I please ask you to..."
Everyone who climbed Mount Everest knew the saying: above eight thousand meters, there was no such thing as morality.
Even if someone collapsed at your feet, you had no obligation to help them. Once you were above eight thousand meters, every movement pushed