Death Pictures From Mount Everest

[junglistmillz]

Originally Posted by dooflotchie

I go to Wikipedia every day, especially when I'm bored. I usually start doing something I call "link hopping" there and it's led me to all sorts of interesting things. My husband just shakes his head and says, "You read some weird shit."

Finding out about the dead climbers left on Mt. Everest surprised me and seeing pictures of them makes me feel sad. There are plenty of stories out there that tell of people on their way to the summit finding others near death and just leaving them to die while they keep going on. One man, Beck Weathers, survived being left for dead during a 1996 climb which turned out to be the year with the most Everest deaths ever. In 2006 the first double amputee to reach the summit was also heavily criticised for leaving an English climber(David Sharp) to die.

A lot of people say it's just too dangerous to remove the bodies that are visible, but I have to wonder if it's more about the tens of thousands of dollars being spent by the climbers who would not want absolutely anything to ruin their chance at getting to the top of the highest mountain in the world. Just getting a permit to climb from the Nepalese or Chinese government costs between $25,000 and $50,000. Then there's the money for expensive climbing gear, transportation, food, oxygen and hiring Sherpas to mule all that stuff up to the base camps.

I guess all that is worth more than a person's life, huh?

Great bit of info there mate, Honestly Thank You!

[hg5714]

Originally Posted by Kehko

one in FOUR climbers? shit! i kno i'd be the one lol

lol u sound just like me! lol any time i come across something i don't kno, i go straight to wikipedia. there's a friend i chat with quite a bit and he ALWAYS knows whenever we get into random discussion and if neither of us knows the answer, he's like "u gonna wikerpedier it aint ya?" lol And it always comes in handy when you havin a disagreement with someone and you KNOW you are right. I do that atleast once aday lol, the ONLY time i was EVER wrong about some random fact that i had to look up on wiki was my hubby was arguing with me about outdated taxonomy... whether or not rhinocerouses were pachyderms as well as elephants. i said no but turns out they were,too (the term is now obsolete anyway :P )

back on topic, tho, lol, i'd always wondered what happend to the bodies of the poeple who died climbing, cause surely the climbers wouldn't have the energy to pull them down all the way.

if i EVER was dumb (or energetic lol) enuf to try reaching the top, the first body i'd saw would be enuf of a sign for me to go the hell back down the mtn lol

but the george mallory one is freakin sweet!

One in four isn't right. I found a number just under 300 for total deaths since Sir Edmund Hillary scaled it. Approximately 800 people attempt to climb annually.

Even if you compare deaths to successful climbs (around 4000) it's less than 1 in 10.

Wikipedia is wonderful but it is subject to human error. Did you ever play the game where you try to link from one article to another with the fewest clicks?
They would give you something like Homer Simpson and The Parthenon, you would click on the links within the entry to get from one to the other. Idk if it's still on there but it was really fun.

[Oonie]

A lot of the bodies there are landmarks for climbers who came after them.

[Padraig Flaherty]

Why risk losing your life, over a big rock?!