Lessons from Everest: Back your expertise

Last week I was in California for a conference. As I live in Melbourne, this entailed a 14 hour flight each way to reach LA. My flight time was taken up with watching movies.

One of the movies I watched was Everest; the dramatised account of the disaster that occurred on Mt Everest on 10 May 1996 that led to 8 climbers losing their lives as they descende…