More than 200 people have died in their attempt to scale Mount Everest. The mountain offers seemingly endless options for kicking the bucket, from falling into the abyss to suffocating from lack of oxygen to being smashed by raining boulders. Yet climbers continue to try their skills – and luck – in tackling Everest, despite the obvious dangers. Indeed, the living pass the frozen, preserved dead along Everest’s routes so often that many bodies have earned nicknames and serve as trail markers. To read the rest of the story, you can see the post at: Curious History
What is the general consensus on this? My question is why are these bodies being left there in the first place? I would think helicopters would be able to fly up the mountain, retrieve the bodies and give them a proper burial. Why are there still over 200 dead bodies on Mt. Everest?
More than 200 people have died in their attempt to scale Mount Everest. The mountain offers seemingly endless options for kicking the bucket, from falling into the abyss to suffocating from lack of oxygen to being smashed by raining boulders. Yet climbers continue to try their skills – and luck – in tackling Everest, despite the obvious dangers. Indeed, the living pass the frozen, preserved dead along Everest’s routes so often that many bodies have earned nicknames and serve as trail markers. To read the rest of the story, you can see the post at:
Curious History
What is the general consensus on this? My question is why are these bodies being left there in the first place? I would think helicopters would be able to fly up the mountain, retrieve the bodies and give them a proper burial. Why are there still over 200 dead bodies on Mt. Everest?