Fellate-O-Fish said:

And the whole premise of why bodies cannot be removed is that to do so would put the mover at risk, right?

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Is his body just a skeleton under there too? Isn't it below freezing year round up there.

WTF eats the bodies??

Birds. Sometimes they cover up the bodies with rocks so birds don't eat them, if they can reach them.

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In some societies the most honorable form of burial is for the corpse to be left to be eaten by birds.

I don't think there are any birds at >25,000 feet on mounains though.

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there are over 200 bodies scattered about the mountain

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Supposed to be another Everest one, but I don't know who.

http://out-door-life.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/everest-corpse1.jpg

Used2beBuggy said:

Looks like he died while fixin' to rub one out.

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Here's another. This guy. They just call him "Green Boots." He's assumed to be an Indian guy who died in 1996.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Boots

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Used2beBuggy said:

Looks like he died while fixin' to rub one out.

story goes, he was wanking during a storm, his tent blew away and he froze instantly in that position.

balloonboy said:

what's fucked up is people pay up to 60k to summit, and at times, there are climbers dying in the snow on the ascent but people will just pass them by without stopping to help.

it's pretty common.

Fellate-O-Fish said:

And the whole premise of why bodies cannot be removed is that to do so would put the mover at risk, right?

balloonboy said:

what's fucked up is people pay up to 60k to summit, and at times, there are climbers dying in the snow on the ascent but people will just pass them by without stopping to help.

it's pretty common.[/quote

THAT'S FUCKED UP!!!!

balloonboy said:

what's fucked up is people pay up to 60k to summit, and at times, there are climbers dying in the snow on the ascent but people will just pass them by without stopping to help.

it's pretty common.

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I try to do a fourteener or two a year, and it kicks my ass. You have to experience what the elevation does to your body to believe it (and I live at 6000').

Mt Everest is more than 29,000 feet.

Everybody knows that you might die there, that's part of the allure. If people were responsible for the welfare of every yuppie living their dream but having trouble, nobody would ever get to the top again.

Consider These assholes and their Personal Locator Beacons:

http://www.rabble.ca/babble/humanities-science/whiny-campers-abuse-personal-locator-beacons

If people had an inkling that there was some kind of rescue when they're tired or uncomfortable, they'd take the easy road 169% of the time.

balloonboy said:

Yes, people are stupid, but i'm not jaded enough to think it's ok to just do nothing while they lay there to die. I wouldn't have that on my conscious.

balloonboy said:

Yes, people are stupid, but i'm not jaded enough to think it's ok to just do nothing while they lay there to die. I wouldn't have that on my conscious.

Used2beBuggy said:

Looks like he died while fixin' to rub one out.

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balloonboy said:

what's fucked up is people pay up to 60k to summit, and at times, there are climbers dying in the snow on the ascent but people will just pass them by without stopping to help.

it's pretty common.

I try to do a fourteener or two a year, and it kicks my ass. You have to experience what the elevation does to your body to believe it (and I live at 6000').

Mt Everest is more than 29,000 feet.

Everybody knows that you might die there, that's part of the allure. If people were responsible for the welfare of every yuppie living their dream but having trouble, nobody would ever get to the top again.

Consider These assholes and their Personal Locator Beacons:

http://www.rabble.ca/babble/humanities-science/whiny-campers-abuse-personal-locator-beacons

If people had an inkling that there was some kind of rescue when they're tired or uncomfortable, they'd take the easy road 169% of the time.

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The reality is that there is no aide you could give them without endangering yourself. Unwillingness to stay focused on the ascent would knock you out of any guide's group.

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Just send a chopper up there to rescue them. Or a snowmobile.