Controversy
Mauduit needed to be rescued by other climbers on descent from K2 in 1992, and again after collapsing during a failed summit attempt on Mount Everest in 1995. Some climbers perceived her as ungrateful for never acknowledging the lifesaving assistance that she had been given. She was also accused of not pulling her weight on climbing expeditions, leaving it to others to fix ropes on difficult sections of mountain or stock higher camps with food and other provisions, and then taking advantage of their work.
Mountaineer Ed Viesturs also raised questions about the cause of Mauduit's death, suggesting either suffocation or carbon monoxide poisoning as other possible causes, implying that Mauduit and her sherpa were incompetent. Viesturs was on Dhaulagiri at the time of Mauduit's death, but had no first hand knowledge of the situation where Mauduit died. The French autopsy concluded that the cause of death was a broken neck as a result of an ice or rock strike, and Viesturs does not formally question the autopsy's findings. Frederique Delrieu, a climbing companion of both Viesturs and Mauduit, saw Mauduit's body first-hand and confirmed that she had a broken neck.
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