Left on Mt. Everest. WTF! Warning graphic content.

[Freiwillige]

I stumbled across this today. I had no idea that the famous mountain is littered with the dead. Sad story and no mountain is worth it.

http://godheadv.blogspot.com/2010/04/abandoned-on-everest.html

[Morts]

Repost
http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=177773

[Solace]

It's been 14 years why not bring the body down and give him a proper burial?

[Madox58]

It's a repost yes.
But to state a simple fact many don't understand.
IF I was to attempt that climb and died doing so?
I would not want to be brought down.
To reach even close to the top of the earth and die there?
Where better to lie.

[Ducimus]

It's been 14 years why not bring the body down and give him a proper burial?

Because you may end up joining the dead if you try. It's that dangerous up there.

[Madox58]

And there are cases of people that did die trying to bring down the dead.

[Gargamel]

Theres actually a lot of bodies up there.

I know of, and I forget the names right now, a pair of very famous explorers still up there. I think they found one of their legs in a recent expedition to retrieve their bodies.

It's same reason we don't recover most ships from 10,000ft of water. Too bloody hard.

[Ducimus]

Cursory searching says, the mountains killed 210 people (source may be wrong, i just saw another that says 175). How many of those are still up there as popsicles i haven't found yet.

[NeonSamurai]

Almost all of them, cause most of them are in the death zone, and/or in virtually inaccessible areas like rainbow valley.

In most cases it is nigh impossible to recover bodies, and the attempts risk creating even more bodies.

Also most of the deaths actually happen after summiting.

[ajrimmer42]

wow, certainly a sobering read...

[sharkbit]

After seeing this:
http://godheadv.blogspot.com/2010/04/abandoned-on-everest.html

-no.

[Dowly]

^ Wrong thread mate. :salute:

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It's tragic, but I think Privateer is right in that most of them probably wouldn't have wanted to be brought back from the mountain. :hmmm:

[Growler]

We humans remain so fragile in many, many ways still unclear to us.

The article is amazing; I understand the call to climb what may be unclimbable, to attempt to conquer the unconquerable. It's what we humans have always done, since setting out in the first boats, on the first aircraft, the first spacecraft.

And some will always die in the attempt. It is also what happens when we push the envelope; some will always fall. It is through them that we others who survive learn, and continue to learn. We succeed where they fail, wiser for their experience. They died for many reasons, not all of them noble, but in their deaths, human knowledge, human experience grew some perhaps infinitesimal bit, and ahead we forged.

Is it a tragedy, that their remains lie where they fell? No, no more than it is a tragedy that the remains of explorers and sailors lie forever entombed within their ships. I can think of no more fitting tribute for some, to be forever preserved as a reminder of our fragility, and as a testament to our courage, than to be right where they are. For those who continue past those fallen cannot help but be reminded of those things, and more.

I'm failing at expressing what I'm trying to say. I hope astute observers will understand the point I'm trying to make.

[sharkbit]

^ Wrong thread mate. :salute:



DOH!!!! :doh:

:)

[Jimbuna]

The link won't work for me so I don't know what it contains but I do know that the odd body has been found encased in ice as the glaciers travel downwards....often after many years.