Do you need to look up the definition of "rumor?"

I'm not calling him a liar or anything stupid like that. I'm just saying I know how rumors spread, and that climbers are certainly not immune to it. People are sparing no time piling onto a 19-year old kid with, for the vast majority of them -- maybe all of them -- zero first-hand information. Perhaps it's all true. Perhaps none of it is. Perhaps, as is most often the case, the truth is someplace in the middle. Regardless, this looks an awful lot like a lynch mob to me, with a boy's reputation in the noose. All the old cliches are marching about with torches -- the decadence of younger climbers, glory whoring to sponsors, the multi-national conglomerate rape of nature, blah, blah, blah.

I'd love to see a little actual evidence of this alleged travesty. Until then, that's all it is to me -- alleged. I have nothing more to say on the topic.