Thread: Life Abandoned on Everest
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Old 02-11-2011, 12:23 AM   #9
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Originally Posted by Silock View Post
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.

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.
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