Mt. Everest has around 200 dead bodies (pics)

[iKermit]

just read Into Thin Air. terrific book to check out if you haven't already.

[Daly_City]

brb staying safe and sound in a city with the supermarket 2 miles away

[Who?]

Who submitted this to reddit?

http://www.reddit.com/r/WTF/comments...of_mt_everest/

lulz

[chadillac1212]

what is the point of life?

is this real life?

[miketheblade]

lol thats nuts


strong 90's flourescents on guy whos been there since 1996

lol..... this... weird

[MrAWatts]

I think the real concern here is Yeti. Are the Sherpas experienced in dealing with them/it?

[guitarwar241]

Some more pictures of the preserved bodies. It's kind of fascinating how they're frozen in time like that.

[Hardcore_D00d]

Annapurna 40% death rate brah. 40.



everest is like 10%

[daveerwin]

Base Camp probably. At 17,000 feet it's higher than anything in the rockies.

Alpine Ascents has a Everest hike you can do I think.



Also, I remembered a story I read in Ed Viesturs book. He's guiding a group up Mt. Rainier, and some guy walks by them going up by himself. Ed warns him about something, and the guy replies "Oh, it's only Mt. Rainier," and up he went. He died.

Lulzz

[guitarwar241]

Here's a video of some guy at the summit. Pretty sick view.

http://www.news.com.au/japanese-clim...rom=public_rss

[ign_fan_4life]

my dad is climbing mount everest next summer... pay $60k to a group of sherpas and they go with you.

u mad?

[themiscson]

What is the point of climbing a mountain?

"its some left over monkey ****" brah.. its just so you can say you reached the highest point..

[liftyeah]

I think the real concern here is Yeti. Are the Sherpas experienced in dealing with them/it?

This i bet over 75% of those deaths are at the hands of the Yeti

[semislav]

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lulz

lul no wonder this thread got so many fuking views so quick

[iLoLd]

how come sherpas are so strong and tough but look weak?

[hawkrock60]

how come we can't just fly helicopters there and rescue people? Pussy ass airforce afraid of high altitude?

Pretty sure there isn't a helicopter in existence that can even produce lift at that altitude, much less hover out of ground effect, much less take on more weight in the form of bodies once it's up there.

Hovering out of ground effect is a challenge for a Blackhawk at 10k. And that's a really powerful helicopter. Just look at the video of the USAF Pave Hawk crashing on Mt. Hood. It did what's called "settling with power," meaning that the pilots were pulling the guts out of it, but it just stopped producing enough lift to remain aloft, and crashed.

[PeanutBuddha]

Most alpha mountain. Ever.

[INGENIOSO]

oh lowd i wanna put my penis in a dead body's cavity .... ass hole or vagina ... oh lowd .... im so hot right now

[SiNiStEr94]

I thought I was going to die when I went snowboarding for the first time. It was only like 10,000 feet too. Couldn't imagine 29,000 feet....

[Vayne]

So is it impossible to recover the bodies to be given a proper burial?

A shame we haven't come up with the technology to bring them to life after being frozen.

[_Marcus_]

very interesting thread

do not know if i want to take that off my bucket list...

i might have to settle for mt ranier

[magog704]

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lulz

lol at people insulting krakauer. he sent CERRO TORRE.



krakauer is an extremely accomplished climber. he is not a high altitude mountaineer. the former carries more weight.

[neosanders]

This thread is seriously sick brah !!

And to wanna do it again is some serious resolve,...!!

[dark-m]

What is the most dangerous mountain in the world?

Answer

Annapurna is now a days considered by statistician as the most dangerous 8000-meter peak with an expedition fatality rate of 40.8%. Of the 142 people who have attempted to summit Annapurna 58 have died.
Yet K2 is still the most dangerous for others as its fatality rate remains constant, whereas Annapurna's and Nanga Parbat's (Nanga Parbat claimed 31 lives before it was conquered by Austrian Herman Buhl in 1953 and more than 100 deaths already) are skewed due to the high number of deaths early on.
Everest has a 7.3% fatality rate with 192 climbers dead out of 2,561, K2 with 24.5% fatality rate with 66 dead out of 269 climbers.

Annapurna



K2



Nanga Parbat

[daveerwin]

Great thread misc brahs.

[Suhoi]

Pretty sure there isn't a helicopter in existence that can even produce lift at that altitude, much less hover out of ground effect, much less take on more weight in the form of bodies once it's up there.

Hovering out of ground effect is a challenge for a Blackhawk at 10k. And that's a really powerful helicopter. Just look at the video of the USAF Pave Hawk crashing on Mt. Hood. It did what's called "settling with power," meaning that the pilots were pulling the guts out of it, but it just stopped producing enough lift to remain aloft, and crashed.

the documentary on youtube said the head wind changed didnt mention anything about producing lift

[MIKE91]

anyone who trys to climb mt. everest is crazy, id never do it

[celticbrah]

dont know if been posted yet here you go epic pics on top of the summit. since watching that everest series where they followed a group of climbers up its something that i would love to do

[SirChubalots]

^^^^

Du have those in high res bro??


Also this is a good movie for anyone thats interested in this kindof stuff

[celticbrah]

^^^^

Du have those in high res bro??


Also this is a good movie for anyone thats interested in this kindof stuff

think i got them off 4walled or wallbase.net just type in everest you should find them there in high res