I found this article was quite fair in it's depiction of an inexperienced climber on Everest. This is the first I heard about it but it doesn't paint all Everest go ers as crazy like some news articles do. It shows how just paying for a guide service doesn't give you climbing experience. I did find it kind of funny that the article says the service taught her about mountaineering, even how to put crampons on boots. If that's the qualifier then I'm more qualified then I thought to be in the Himalayas....To bad the turn out, was definitely preventable, though not all together uncommon.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/story/201 ... state.html