Life Abandoned on Everest - Page 6

**the Talking Can** · 02-10-2011, 01:43 PM

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...

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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....

Silock · 02-10-2011, 11:17 PM

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Originally Posted by Over-Head

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

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.

**jAZ** · 02-11-2011, 12:00 AM

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Originally Posted by Silock

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.

Miles · 02-11-2011, 12:23 AM

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Originally Posted by Silock

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.

Silock · 02-11-2011, 12:30 AM

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Originally Posted by Miles

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.

**Bugeater** · 02-11-2011, 12:38 AM

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Originally Posted by Silock

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.

Silock · 02-11-2011, 12:54 AM

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Originally Posted by Bugeater

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

I think the chance of Xenu coming to take us all away tomorrow is higher.

googlegoogle · 02-11-2011, 01:05 AM

bury them.

Miles · 02-11-2011, 01:11 AM

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Originally Posted by googlegoogle

bury them.

How?

MagicHef · 02-11-2011, 01:29 AM

There's a project in the works called the Alpine Wasp, specifically for Everest rescues. It's an unmanned helicopter that can go over 30,000 feet. Although, all the news about that I can find is from 2007, so maybe it ended up not working.

no love · 02-11-2011, 01:46 AM

... and it's a pretty interesting blog. The one about the jelly fish... makes me think twice about...

Joe Seahawk · 02-11-2011, 01:47 AM

Krakaurs "Into thin air: really got me mesmerized by the stories, i have read several other books including "the climb" by Anatoli boukreev and a couple others by Brashears and viesturs. One amazing thing is Ed Viesturs (arguably the most accomplished high altitude mountaineer in history) sits 3 rows behind me at Seahawks games. First time I saw him i couldn''t help but tell him how amazed and impressed i was with his feats. He seemed suprised to be recognized.. pretty cool

This whole everest thing amazes me for some reason..

Silock · 02-11-2011, 01:58 AM

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Originally Posted by Joe Seahawk

One amazing thing is Ed Viesturs (arguably the most accomplished high altitude mountaineer in history)

Reinhold Messner might have an argument with that.

BTW, I'm not arguing with that. Just saying the argument is there to be made.

Miles · 02-11-2011, 02:02 AM

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Originally Posted by Joe Seahawk

Krakaurs "Into thin air: really got me mesmerized by the stories, i have read several other books including "the climb" by Anatoli boukreev and a couple others by Brashears and viesturs. One amazing thing is Ed Viesturs (arguably the most accomplished high altitude mountaineer in history) sits 3 rows behind me at Seahawks games. First time I saw him i couldn''t help but tell him how amazed and impressed i was with his feats. He seemed suprised to be recognized.. pretty cool

This whole everest thing amazes me for some reason..

Pretty much here sans the great Ed Viesturs anecdote. I have a Brashears book sitting on my bookshelf that I have been intending to read and read the Krackaur ones a while back. Any particular ones you can recommend I read first?

Joe Seahawk · 02-11-2011, 02:22 AM

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Originally Posted by Miles

Pretty much here sans the great Ed Viesturs anecdote. I have a Brashears book sitting on my bookshelf that I have been intending to read and read the Krackaur ones a while back. Any particular ones you can recommend I read first?

Have you read boukreev "the Climb"? It's the 96 debacle from anotoli's viewpoint. Pretty interesting. " No shortcuts to the top" by viesturs is also pretty fascinating, that dude came close to dying several times.

Joe Seahawk · 02-11-2011, 02:23 AM

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Originally Posted by Silock

Reinhold Messner might have an argument with that.

BTW, I'm not arguing with that. Just saying the argument is there to be made.

No doubt.. I'm kind of a homer...

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Joe Seahawk This place entertains.. Join Date: Aug 2000 Location: Seattle Casino cash: $5484435	Krakaurs "Into thin air: really got me mesmerized by the stories, i have read several other books including "the climb" by Anatoli boukreev and a couple others by Brashears and viesturs. One amazing thing is Ed Viesturs (arguably the most accomplished high altitude mountaineer in history) sits 3 rows behind me at Seahawks games. First time I saw him i couldn''t help but tell him how amazed and impressed i was with his feats. He seemed suprised to be recognized.. pretty cool This whole everest thing amazes me for some reason..
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