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Dead Bodies of Mt. Everest

tsywake said:
I'm the same. I'd love to go to the base camp, look up at the mountain and then go back to my warm cozy bed. I have so much respect for those that climb it, but I'm not that crazy.
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I'm always interested in the reasons people have for climbing it. Supposedly the mentality and motivation is a huge factor in whether or not you make it - I know this seems like common sense, but it's still cool to have numbers showing selfish people (those who just want to be on top of the world/know they're the highest person on the planet) are less successful.
 
94Deac said:
Do it pimp style: take a whole shitload of Viagra first.
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oh there's "whack off buckets" who marks the very beginning of the hike, i'm actually not sure how you even die this early in the hike
 
Anytime I hike for like more than an hour where I live (where it is 70 in the winter) I think how much it sucks and wonder why people do Everest.
 
lbE08 said:
I'm always interested in the reasons people have for climbing it. Supposedly the mentality and motivation is a huge factor in whether or not you make it - I know this seems like common sense, but it's still cool to have numbers showing selfish people (those who just want to be on top of the world/know they're the highest person on the planet) are less successful.
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If I were ever crazy enough to try it, my sole motivation would be doing something that only a few thousand other people had accomplished in the history of the planet.
 
My second cousin has climbed it something like 7 or 8 times, it's crazy. I think he might guide tours that take people up there and charges like $100,000 a pop.
 
That's nuts. The pic of the guy who died clutching his legs to his chest in the cave is just ridiculous.
 
LadyDeac03 said:
I think I mentioned this in the book thread or somewhere else, but if you haven't read Into Thin Air, that's an obvious must for Everest lovers. But I also recently read High Crimes: The Fate of Everest in an Age of Greed and thought it was pretty interesting. I don't think it's as well written as Krakauer's book and it can be a little confusing following the names/stories with the way it is written, but it's definitely a side of Everest I don't think is shown as often.
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I met Beck Weathers 10+ years ago. His is one of the strorylines in "Into Thin Air" and he wrote is own book "Left For Dead". Both books are good reads (Into Thin Air much better) and Beck is one hell of a person to talk or listen to.
 
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Isn't it a total buzzkill for climbers to have to hike past all these dead bodies? I mean, that would set off a few warning bells for me, but I guess I'm weird.
 
I read somewhere today there are an estimated 200 bodies on the upper reaches of the mountains. Even those that die in the camps are often left there. Its too much energy to try and bring them back down.
 
It's so awful for the people around when someone is dying because there is so little they can do. Ugh.
 
tsywake said:
I read somewhere today there are an estimated 200 bodies on the upper reaches of the mountains. Even those that die in the camps are often left there. Its too much energy to try and bring them back down.
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Yeah, check out the link...there's one dude just laying dead in the Advanced base camp with other tents and signs of activity (footprints, disturbed snow) etc just a few feet away.
 
dot com said:
It'd be so awesome if I froze mid-spooge, O-face, throwing devil horns up with my free hand.
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Amaaaaazing. I'd definitely try to leave the most memorable frozen corpse possible. Maybe go bent-over, fully spread butt cheeks directly facing the hiking trail with a big smile on my face. If I'm really planning ahead, I could get a b-hole tattoo before the trip, making it even more memorable for future mountaineers.
 
Say Hey Deac said:
Amaaaaazing. I'd definitely try to leave the most memorable frozen corpse possible. Maybe go bent-over, fully spread butt cheeks directly facing the hiking trail with a big smile on my face. If I'm really planning ahead, I could get a b-hole tattoo before the trip, making it even more memorable for future mountaineers.
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You could tattoo the elevation that you felt confident you could make and be a legit marker. At least then you'd be helpful.
 
Do they make glow-in-the-dark tattoo ink? I'd like my ass to be a beacon of light to those at basecamp. Maybe just lodging a prism in there would reflect enough.
 
awakeandready said:
It's so awful for the people around when someone is dying because there is so little they can do. Ugh.
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yeah, i read that last one about the husband and wife, and i'm sitting there thinking "he had to know he was going to die. but could i honestly say i would do anything different?" i think knowing that i had left my spouse dying on the side of a mountain would be worse than just dying with them. i think i'd rather go after them, knowing it would kill me.
 
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