Abandoned on Everest

[the Talking Can]

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...

This morning, however, Green Boots had company. Sitting no more than two feet to the left of the corpse was a man who at first glance appeared to be dead. His gloved hands were on his knees, his hood and hat cast his face in shadow. The only feature visible was the man's severely frostbitten nose, already a greenish black hue. On closer inspection, the vapor from the man's breath could be seen rising.

What happened next entered the folklore of the highest mountain on earth. Every man interviewed gives a different story. What is certain is that every single one of the 40-odd climbers attempting the summit that day left the man in the cave, whose name was David Sharp, to freeze, either by choice, by ignorance, or by misjudging him as a corpse they already expected to see in that infamous cave....

[Otter]

Originally Posted by kcfanXIII

I've been to the top of Pike's Peak, that is half the elevation as Everest, and I couldn't breath. No way would I even try.

Been to the top of Engineer Peak (13,000 ft) a couple times. It killed me when I first moved here but I can barely notice the difference between the top and the bottom now.

That video is ****ing nuts. Pretty much all he could do is stand there and say "oh ****" them climb into the sturdy shelter of his tent. If that guy had a load in his pants when that was over I couldn't even find it in myself to make fun of him.