I heard very bad news this morning. Bad for all us, climbers.
He admitted he reached "just" 7500m. He is very good man and very talented alpinist. He doesn't need this kind of garbage. Stangl has a great capacity and all his previous work will be in question now (by press or others). He doesn't deserve that. It's bad that sometimes climbers put themselves under the high pressure. He said sponsors never pressured him. He was afraid of failure. We all are ...
I also have responsibilities to my sponsors but never tried to photoshop my summit pic. I just report that summit is not reached and all my good friends and supporters are happy I came back alive. But, I am not good climber so maybe they don't expect from me a lot.
We all expect from climbers like Christian only success. Failure is not an option ... That is too bad. Main goal is to have great experience from mountains not to bring controversy.