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This is how you navigate Mt. Everest

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http://www.buzzfeed.com/toddvanluling/dead-bodies-on-mount-everest

Sometimes climbers stumble upon men and women who are dying on the mountain but have no way of helping them and so they must leave them to die

Two climbers found a woman alone and dying yelling, "please don't leave me" but were forced to continue on and let her die as they had no means to help her and staying would risk their own lives
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I read several books on Everest this Spring and was frankly a bit astounding by leaving people up there until I read more about the logistics of even getting the healthy people back down.

To read about it it seems like a simple march up and down the mountain, see film of it and people take one step at a time and rest for 30 seconds before attempting another.

Amazing stuff, makes you wonder if you could make the trip.
 
LOL WTF?? That article lists forum.bodybuilding.com as the source. That set of facts was "written" based on information found on Misc. Cripes. Was citing Wikipedia too much work??
 
I admit to a certain fascination at viewing pictures of the dead on Everest. It's very surreal. Supposedly, I think either last year or this year, there was a serious effort to at least clean up some of the garbage left behind by climbers. Perhaps, some of the bodies may get cleared off sooner or later.
 
So after enough time, it's just going to be frozen bodies all the way up. It'll be like the treeline up a mountainside.
First the treeline stops, then the snow starts, then you run into the corpsezone.


It'll also be interesting for future archaeologists - so many skeletal remains, adorned with all kinds of decorative clothing and mysterious artifacts.



NUSNA_Moebius said:
I admit to a certain fascination at viewing pictures of the dead on Everest. It's very surreal. Supposedly, I think either last year or this year, there was a serious effort to at least clean up some of the garbage left behind by climbers. Perhaps, some of the bodies may get cleared off sooner or later.
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But then there'll just be even more bodies, because everyone's going to get lost without their landmarks.
 
Jeff7 said:
So after enough time, it's just going to be frozen bodies all the way up. It'll be like the treeline up a mountainside.
First the treeline stops, then the snow starts, then you run into the corpsezone.


It'll also be interesting for future archaeologists - so many skeletal remains, adorned with all kinds of decorative clothing and mysterious artifacts.



But then there'll just be even more bodies, because everyone's going to get lost without their landmarks.
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Wait, was I supposed to turn left at green boots or green pants?
 
brblx said:
none of those pictures are new. i think 'green boots' dates to the 1996 disaster. and i've seen the one right beside the camp a lot. i think that's like camp 4 on the south side. somewhere right before the summit push.

edit: for shitty stories, see this guy-

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Sharp_(mountaineer)

also
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln_Hall_(climber)
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"Sitting to our left, about two feet from a 10,000 foot drop, was a man. Not dead, not sleeping, but sitting cross legged, in the process of changing his shirt. He had his down suit unzipped to the waist, his arms out of the sleeves, was wearing no hat, no gloves, no sunglasses, had no oxygen mask, regulator, ice axe, oxygen, no sleeping bag, no mattress, no food nor water bottle. 'I imagine you're surprised to see me here', he said. Now, this was a moment of total disbelief to us all. Here was a gentleman, apparently lucid, who had spent the night without oxygen at 8600m, without proper equipment and barely clothed. And ALIVE."
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:awe:
 
Jeff7 said:
It'll also be interesting for future archaeologists - so many skeletal remains, adorned with all kinds of decorative clothing and mysterious artifacts.
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Not to mention all the left over O2 bottles, food packaging, and the other crap that gets dropped. Or global warming will kick in and let all the bodies, and their items, rot away. 🙁

From one of the Wikipedia articles, the camera that Mallory took up in 1924 when he died, is still up there somewhere. I guess the film could still be developed, with care, if it was found?

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"Sitting to our left, about two feet from a 10,000 foot drop, was a man. Not dead, not sleeping, but sitting cross legged, in the process of changing his shirt. He had his down suit unzipped to the waist, his arms out of the sleeves, was wearing no hat, no gloves, no sunglasses, had no oxygen mask, regulator, ice axe, oxygen, no sleeping bag, no mattress, no food nor water bottle. 'I imagine you're surprised to see me here', he said. Now, this was a moment of total disbelief to us all. Here was a gentleman, apparently lucid, who had spent the night without oxygen at 8600m, without proper equipment and barely clothed. And ALIVE."
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The fvcK!?

And I fixed my title. Don't mock my dyslexia. 😛
 
Can a 4 years old survive necro mongers? We will know soon enough, more details coming up at 10:00 PM, stay tuned
 
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How come the company that made Green Boots boots doesn't advertise it?

"Look at how well our boots have held up to nearly 20 years of constant exposure. They'll outlive the person wearing them..."
 
Evidently green boots and a lot of other bodies from the north slope were removed last year.
 
I doubt that any microorganisms that would reduce the bodies to skeletal can live up there. Once somebody is dead and frozen the stuff inside them that would cause decomposition is probably too frozen to do anything.
 
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How come the company that made Green Boots boots doesn't advertise it?

"Look at how well our boots have held up to nearly 20 years of constant exposure. They'll outlive the person wearing them..."
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Anything made of polymer, not having any wear and kept in a freezer will last for thousands of year
 
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