Mount Everest Deaths

Longbow6360 · Dec 7, 2010

LAST EDITED ON Dec-07-10 AT 08:00AM (MST)[p]Here's something interesting about the climbers that die on Mount Everest. I had no idea that more than 150 people have been left on the mountain. Pretty creepy pictures.
http://godheadv.blogspot.com/2010/04/abandoned-on-everest.html

For long distance dial 1-800-338-EDGE

NVBighorn · Dec 7, 2010

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

Longbow6360 · Dec 7, 2010

Thanks for the fix NV

For long distance dial 1-800-338-EDGE

Bullelk1 · Dec 7, 2010

Wow. I never had any desire to do something that extreme. Bowhunting in grizzly country is dangerous enough for me.

eelgrass · Dec 7, 2010

I've had a long time interest and fasination with Everest. I don't have any desire to climb it but I've read a bunch of books and follow the attempts every year. There are several "live" updates on the internet. May is prime time to check it out.

Eel

D13er · Dec 7, 2010

you could eat mallory jerky up there if you were starving....

JB

Hazmat · Dec 7, 2010

They should have to post a bond to have sherpas haul their carcass off the mountain if they die...

HAZMAT

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wvbowhunterinalaska · Dec 7, 2010

Usually the bodies are left up there. Very rarely do they retrieve the body. It usually takes most of the day to climb up and down, under your own power using bottled oxygen, much less dragging something back. I have heard of a few bodies that have been retrieved, but usually they have to wait until the weather gets better to go and get them, which usually is the off season climbing. Also the sherpas go up the mountain to put out new ropes, ladders, and climbing hooks every year. I have respect for people that go up there, but I don't think there is enough money in the world for me to go up that high.
WVBOWAK

sageadvice · Dec 7, 2010

Though i have fished where i knew there were none to be had, i have had no desire to ever clime a mountain that has no Muleys.

Joey

B_BOP_A_LU_LU · Dec 7, 2010

Hey sage!

There's a PISSCUTTER at the top!

God is Great!
Life is Good!
And People are Crazy!

I love not acting my age,
Damn I love my NASCAR race,
And Hell yes I love my Truck!

sageadvice · Dec 7, 2010

Good Morning Bessy! Well, that puts climbing the mountain in a whole different light!!

Just climbing to be climbing just never made no sense to me at'll!

Joey

AWHOLELOTTABULL · Dec 7, 2010

If you want to read a good book, read "In To Thin Air" by John Krakauer (SP?). That thing sucked me right in and gives you a whole new perspective on those crazy SOB's. I don't know how true it is but I've heard rumor that 90% of all climbers lose some part of their body on those climbes. Be it toes, fingers, nose, ears etc. Frostbite is a gaurantee!!!

It's always an adventure!!!

runamuk · Dec 8, 2010

If you read into thin air, Then The climb is a must.
Anatoli Boukreev, tells his side of what happened on that expidition, much different account than Krakauer's.
I gotta believe Boukreev's story is closer to the truth of what happened that day..