Mt. Everest has around 200 dead bodies (pics)

[bottle_cap]

Holy hell imagine being the first guy to climb that bitch

if people were dying with 1990's tech, how the **** did they climb that bitch before

[gswarrior510]

what height is the last safe camp? the one that isn't hard to get to and you don't need training for? I just want to see it, the climbing part I'll pass

[DCutch]

I was just talking today with my sister about how I don't want to be buried or cremated or anything, and honestly, I think this would be an awesome way for my body to rest- Atop a perilous, freezing mountain. My existence would be forever immortalized upon that mountain. I'm not even joking, I'd love my dead body to lay atop this mountain.

[ygbodybuilder10]

i just read the first page, so its really dead body's on mount everest


is there no way possible to get them body's from up there

[DangerDan]

I was just talking today with my sister about how I don't want to be buried or cremated or anything, and honestly, I think this would be an awesome way for my body to rest- Atop a perilous, freezing mountain. My existence would be forever immortalized upon that mountain. I'm not even joking, I'd love my dead body to lay atop this mountain.

Hell yeah. Maybe wear a funny shirt or something. Lol.

[lwild]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pete_Schoening

Schoening is perhaps best remembered for his heroics during "The Belay" while part of the American K2 expedition in 1953. He single-handedly averted the loss of the entire expedition when he used an ice axe to set and hold a line saving five of the team who had slid off the mountain and dangled thousands of feet in the air.

Alpha male is alpha

[fleabass11]

i just read the first page, so its really dead body's on mount everest


is there no way possible to get them body's from up there

would you risk your life to carry a dead body down a mountain?....

[brianhorne3]

[pumplikecuming]

Tits and mensturation at 0:27

[magog704]

Fuu and here I was planning on doing a mountian this year in the Canadian rockies...Its quarter the altitude of everist.

Puts the mountians Ive hiked to shame!!lols


On a srs note Ive contemplated doing some big mountains over in switzerland and on the long run Ive thought about everist.hmm decisions..

lots of mountains in the CR are more difficult technically than everest. take hummingbird ridge of mt logan. not in the cr but you get it.

[magog704]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pete_Schoening



Alpha male is alpha

this is like babe ruth calling the shot of mtning. except he saved lives.

another story

[jrbump]

I'M NOT EVEN MAD!








omfg you win the internets, laaaaaaaaawlz ****ing dying here in my cube.

[Al.Capone]

brb climbing Everest without supplemental oxygen then doing squats to failure on the summit.

[SCAR-H]

Anyone know the name of this movie where a commercial airplane crashes in the mountains somewhere. A group of people survive, but there's this fat lady who has her leg stuck under the chair. She keeps crying and people are just telling her to shut up because they can't help her. Eventually she dies... and the people resort to eating her. It looked like a pretty old movie... never got to finish watching it.

[JohnnyChristian]

just heat them up


and they will still be alive?

[turelpld]

Anyone know the name of this movie where a commercial airplane crashes in the mountains somewhere. A group of people survive, but there's this fat lady who has her leg stuck under the chair. She keeps crying and people are just telling her to shut up because they can't help her. Eventually she dies... and the people resort to eating her. It looked like a pretty old movie... never got to finish watching it.

Alive?

[IrateBrah]

there is a lot of controversy about this. helicopters have crashed on everest and everyone inside always dies obvi.

fair criticism imo. mountaineering is inherently dangerous, but at some point the risk doesn't make sense.

this is relevant to wat u said (lots of ppl think this guy is a ****)
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/ad...maz_humar.html

Holy ****. That guy is a fuking idiot!!!! He tethered the helicopter to the fuking mountain with no regard for the pilots safety. I dont for a second believe he hadnt considered the consequences, or that it came as a surprise. Complete fluke that they didnt all die because of this tool.

[MasterBlaster52]

Anyone know the name of this movie where a commercial airplane crashes in the mountains somewhere. A group of people survive, but there's this fat lady who has her leg stuck under the chair. She keeps crying and people are just telling her to shut up because they can't help her. Eventually she dies... and the people resort to eating her. It looked like a pretty old movie... never got to finish watching it.

i want the name

[Big_Pete1000]

i want the name

Is that the movie about the rugby team?

[xcav8r]

whaaat no way?

Yeah. Boukreev died on Annapurna.

The name of the plane crash movie is "Alive" old movie from the early eighties

[cXx]

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

u mad?

Yup, i'm mad your dad is spending $60,000 on an adventure for himself that he can only come back and tell you about. Sounds like you got a good deal there brah, im furious.

[Nims182]

If you haven't seen 'Touching the Void' you should see it, it's not about everest but it's a documentary about 2 guys that climbed Suila Grande in Peru, one of the guys breaks his leg on the way down and manages to get off the mountain by himself.

[EDIT] The whole documentary is on youtube in 12 parts, heres the first part...

[VasDeferens]

I think this guy has them beat. 20 times to the top of the Mountain.

Strong frostbite.

[SwayWay]

Epic thread. Thank OP.

[engj]

[Chook Legs]

Another one,

Sherpa Babu Chiri was recognized for reaching the summit 10 times, staying 21 hours at the top without oxygen, as well as doing the speed ascent of the mountain.

Those sherpas must have blood thick as toothpaste.

their entire population has lived at 7-9K' for thousands of years, so they are just built for it. pretty crazy.

A recent study found a genetic adaptation for their ability to live at high altitude.

Mountain-dwelling Tibetans have genetically adapted to life at altitude in the past 3000 years – the fastest genetic change known to have occurred in humans.

Rasmus Nielsen at the University of California, Berkeley, and his colleagues looked at the DNA of people living in two villages at 4300 and 4600 metres above sea level in Tibet. At these heights, oxygen levels are about 40 per cent lower than at sea level and lowlanders experience hypoxia, which is associated with headaches, fatigue, smaller fetuses and more deaths in infancy.

Tibetans don't suffer from hypoxia, but it has been unclear why. Nielsen's team compared the DNA of 50 Tibetans with that of 40 Han Chinese people from Beijing and 200 people of European ancestry from Denmark, all of whom live at altitudes below 2000 metres.

By comparing the DNA of the three groups, the team identified the specific genetic differences between the Tibetan and Han populations, thought to have diverged around 2750 years ago.

Haemoglobin puzzle
The biggest difference was near a gene called EPAS1, which is known to respond to low levels of oxygen by increasing haemoglobin production. A modified version of the EPAS1 region was found in 87 per cent of the Tibetans, but only 9 per cent of Han Chinese.

Nielsen's team also measured the haemoglobin levels and counted red blood cells in both groups, and came up with surprising results. "Individuals with the 'adaptive' version of the gene have lower haemoglobin levels than individuals without," says Nielsen, though he doesn't know how this might benefit those living at high altitudes.

In theory higher levels of haemoglobin would be beneficial, because this would improve oxygen transport. But high levels could make the blood thicker and less efficient at carrying oxygen, says Jay Storz of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. However, he thinks that the adaptation must lie in other genetic differences.

Recent split
Nielsen's team found that more than half of the top 30 genomic differences between the Tibetan and Han populations were in genes linked to oxygen transport in the blood. Some were associated with haemoglobin production and others with red blood cell production, for example.

The two populations diverged less than 3000 years ago, so the Tibetans' adaptation to high altitudes represents "the fastest genetic change ever observed in humans", says Nielsen.

Simon Ho, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Sydney, Australia, says the speed of the adaptation is "remarkable".


http://www.newscientist.com/article/...king-rate.html

[gizzmoJ]

lmfao

[TheStender]

what height is the last safe camp? the one that isn't hard to get to and you don't need training for? I just want to see it, the climbing part I'll pass

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.

[Big_Pete1000]

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.

Yea anytime climbing a mountain I would never take it lightly. Never know what can happen...

[Scuba19]

This may sound weird, but I really want to climb Everest now just to see this.