Abandoned on Everest
 

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

Fascinating blog post on what goes on in Everest's "dead zone" along with some unbelievable pictures.

NSFW warning...not because they're all graphic, but there are pictures of dead, frozen bodies.

You have to be crazy...

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...g_everest2.jpg

Yep. Everest is a mean, mean place. You have to be insane to even think of trying to summit it.

Jesus.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...weathers01.jpg

You'd think that someone would put some funny signs on the corpses, or something.

"Sorry, we already cast Two-Face."

We should get a CP team going to scale it.

Let's meet in Springfield.

Maybe he was just a charger fan who is expecting a super bowl win.

What I had never thought of, is that most of the dead people are still there....so you are walking through a graveyard, literally, on your way up. Some of those bodies just give me the heebiees...

That's going to leave a mark /cymbal crash

I'm in. I'll carry the beer.

I'll wait till there's a tram.

I'm in....

I love to read about this stuff.


Rep.



Everest is bad, but K2 and a few others are much worse when it comes to death and injury.

"For years, any climber attempting the southern route could see her body, sitting, leaning against her backpack with her eyes open and brown hair blowing in the wind. Despite being so exposed and so visible along the well-trodden climbing route, rescue operations are virtually suicidal in the Death Zone. A Nepalese police inspector and a Sherpa who tried to recover Hannelore's body in 1984 both fell to their deaths."

This blog is quite a find.

What happened to the skin on some of the bodies? There really isn't anything to eat or dispose of the material. Did it just dry up and blow away?

Did I tell you I might be getting PIC type in the 400?

I know a lady whos Husband died on the way down after he summitted...amazing stories

Wow. This is one is apparently George Leigh Mallory. He's the one who answered "Because it's there" in response to the "Why do you climb mountains?" question. He died on Everest in 1924...

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...-everest-2.jpg

That is just pure craziness!

Boy, this is cold...

In 2007, Ian Woodall, a British climber, returned to Everest to bury the bodies of three climbers he passed on his way to the summit. One of the climbers, a woman named Francys Arsentiev, was still alive when Woodall reached her during his initial ascent. Her first words to him were "don't leave me behind." The grim reality, though, is that Woodall could not have done anything for her without jeopardizing his own life or the lives of his team members. He was forced to leave her to perish alone.

So this guy was trying to jerk off huh? http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...t-corpse-1.jpg

LMAO

"I can finish! I can finish! I can fin...."

Do you think he should have hit her over the head with a pick or something like that?

If you enjoyed this story, watch:

Touching the Void

and Everest: Beyond the Limit (Seasons 1 and 2)

Great mountaineering/Everest documentaries.

I don't know. I've never been in that situation, but I'm pretty sure that I would have to try to get her down.

freezing to death is my worst way to imagine dying....i can barely even read descriptions of it....

Yep, that is Mallory. There's a great hour-long documentary on the guys that specifically went looking for Mallory and Irvine. They knew the point that they were last seen and scoured the mountain and found Mallory by chance. They weren't sure it was him until they found a clothing tag with "Mallory" written on it.

They couldn't determine by any of the evidence if Mallory had actually made the summit. Some think he did, others think not.

That was a very interesting read. Thanks for posting. :thumb:

I've read that it's actually quite a decent way to go.

When you gotta FAP, you gotta FAP........

read the comments to the post....a long argument on that very point...

Everest Beyond the Limit is pretty good.


I don't like the guy from Cali. He is an egotistical douchewad.

dude is wearing socks


did someone steal his boots?

I bet that's why he died. He probably forgot to bring boots.

There is some good gear on those mannequins.

Ebay....

this note is from the comments:

Well he did try to help her:

True story: I went to the Boundary Waters for a week, and I left my second pair of shoes in the car, so I went an entire week without getting my feet wet. That's never been done before in the Boundary Waters.

Those people aren't freezing to death so much as they are dying from a lack of oxygen.

Come on . . . Dane's a nice guy! ;)

Why cause more death trying to delay the inevitable. It sucks but what can you do.

Id LOVE to attempt Everest.

that's true


it's the idea of losing sensation in your limbs that creeps me out

Imagine getting light headed and euphoric, then passing out.


Dead




There are much worse ways to go.

Like I said, try to get her down.

A river, a mountain to be crossed
The sunshine in mountains sometimes lost
Around the south side, so cold that we cried
Were we ever colder on that day, a million miles away
It seemed from all eternity

"Move forward" was my friend's only cry
In deeper to somewhere we could lie
And rest for the the day with cold in the way
Were we ever colder on that day a million miles away
It seemed from all eternity

The moments seemed lost in all the noise
A snow storm a stimulating voice
Of warmth of the sky of warmth when you die
Were we ever warmer on that day a million miles away
We seemed from all eternity

The sunshine in mountains sometimes lost
The river can disregard the cost
And melt in the sky the warmth when you die
Were we ever warmer on that day a million miles away
We seemed from all of eternity

That's FAR easier said than done. In several technical sections, there are ladders that must be scaled. How do you do that with someone that's unconscious, while everyone there is struggling with a lack of oxygen (and therefore, strength)? Not to mention it's not like there's a lot of room to maneuver, as most of the sections above 22,000 feet are single-file.

Those pictures are creepy. i couldnt imagine having places on mountains named after the dead people that are still sitting there, in plain view.

They should make an emergency kit that has something like what the Mars Pathfinder had. Insert freezing person, inflate bag and push down mountain.

I bet you could sell tickets on that ride...:thumb:

LMAO..... brilliant... a self-inflating emergency Zorb. If you don't make it, you get an exciting ride 10,000 feet down the side of the mountain...

Better odds than sitting there freezing...

I don't understand the music, but check out 2:30 in to see what I'm referring to:

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I'm sure that would be totally feasible to carry at 27K feet....

Interesting article. The comments were almost as interesting. Great post, thanks!

Someone should take a saw and leave it there. Everyone that passes a corpse should hack off a piece and bring it down with them.

LOL

That would be a hell of a ride. It would be like a 20 mile ride, because you wouldn't stop until you got ALL the way down.

In all seriousness, though, I hate how all these "reports" on Everest make it seem like people are just walking by on a leisurely hike, watching other people die. IT's not like that. It's hard, serious shit. If rescuing someone were that easy, people would do it all the time. Most rescue attempts are abandoned, and it's not because people don't care about the dying. It's because it's just too hard. There are too many inexperienced climbers and expedition leaders up there on Everest.

I'd love to scale Everest one day. I won't, though, because in addition to having zero climbing experience, even if you do everything perfectly right, you can STILL DIE.

I have zero interest in doing something like that. Zero. It doesn't sound fun at all, there's a chance you could die just because of bad luck, and it's become enough of a cliche that telling people you climbed Mt. Everest would probably garner no more than a shrug and a "that's cool" comment.

On a slightly different note, Mt. Everest is now a cliche, but imagine being at a party and telling people that you climbed a 50,000 foot mountain. ON MARS! That would buy serious credibility.

That and jumping out of a perfectly good working airplane hoping a piece of silk is gonna save my ass from going THUMP!!

:bong: need a test run volunteer :bong:

"I summited Olympus Mons, and all I got was this lousy T-shirt.


and some really cool alien fossils."

I've watched some documentaries on climbing everest, and that wouldn't be a good idea. Like Silock said, there are parts where you have to climb ladders and shit like that. Try doing that with someone near death attached to you. It would be impossible.

A person near death will likely take you with them in just about any situation.

Now that was fun!

Climbing a mountain where there is not enough oxygen to sustain life, not so much.

Krakauer 'Into Thin Air' 1997 harrowing shit. So visceral that the actual images pale in comparison.

Something I have learned from reading this thread and some stuff from the link provided:

Bring a ****ing gun.

I'm not freezing to death, and if no one is going to help me, **** it, I'm out *bang*.

Also, I suppose, you could be merciful and shoot other people in the head that are near death and have no hope as well.

I'll take the helicopoter ride up for my $10,000 :D

Freezing to death is one of the better ways to go. Eff shooting myself in the face, I'd rather die in a delirious euphoria.

Come on now! I'm going do some more jumps down in San Pedro next week. I'm trying to talk my wife into it as well, but she's having none of it.

Yeah but I stutter when i'm excited,,,my luck i'd nail the ground going ....f f f f fourrr

Heh, it's not the long fall that will kill you. It's the sudden stop. :evil:

"Touching the Void" is one of my favorite movies. If you think you have had a bad day, just watch that movie and realize it could be worse. Rep.

Oh gee...I feel all better :spock:

Now climbing it is much easier than before. With mini camps set at several heights. Oxygen tanks in abundance. The ones who did it in the past are the ones with real balls.

Highly recommend that one as well.

Not sure if you'rer being serious, but the air is too thin for helicopters to fly up there. Otherwise, you'd have helicopter rescues of climbers.

Didn't know that. Makes sense though.

I heard something about one landing/hovering there a while back and checked it out on google and it looks legit enough from 5 years ago. The highest rescue apparently is around 23k on another Himalayan mountain which is hardly close to the summit.

Yeah, that's still quite a gap to the summit of Everest.

I suppose once more copters have the same power, we'll see less people dying up there.

Or maybe when morons stop going up there, we'll see less people dying up there.