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Photo gallery of dead climbers on Mount Everest

http://imgur.com/a/rkRAk

Crazy that there are so many of them up there.

AKPirate wrote:Photo gallery of dead climbers on Mount Everest

http://imgur.com/a/rkRAk

Do you just sit in Alaska on the internet looking up cold shit?

Now that's fucked up. I can't imagine leaving someone behind, even if dead. I guess it is something that is just ground into a soldiers head, "leave no one behind".

weird that you posted this, i just read a thing on Mallory the other day.

the ice man "Utzi" is an interesting story as well.

QH's Paw wrote:Now that's fucked up. I can't imagine leaving someone behind, even if dead. I guess it is something that is just ground into a soldiers head, "leave no one behind".

Yeah, I was never in military, but I got to agree with you. If you can hear him you gotta at least try and get him off the mountain. I know its gotta be one of the most inhospitable places on the planet. But if they past by him just to make it to the summit. That's horseshit.

Maybe it mountaineer code to "fuck everybody else and fend for yourself"

3legged_lab wrote:Maybe it mountaineer code to "fuck everybody else and fend for yourself"

3legged_lab wrote:Maybe it mountaineer code to "fuck everybody else and fend for yourself"

Just like public hunting and the NCH???

AKPirate wrote:

3legged_lab wrote:Maybe it mountaineer code to "fuck everybody else and fend for yourself"

Just like public hunting and the WCH???

FIXED IT.

GadwallGetter530 wrote:

AKPirate wrote:

3legged_lab wrote:Maybe it mountaineer code to "**** everybody else and fend for yourself"

Just like public hunting and the WCH???

FIXED IT.

:lol:

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they're actually trying to get the bodies off the mountain these days, too much debris from backpacks and coats and stuff. i don't get the leave someone to die thing either.

GadwallGetter530 wrote:

AKPirate wrote:Photo gallery of dead climbers on Mount Everest

http://imgur.com/a/rkRAk

Do you just sit in Alaska on the internet looking up cold shit?

Why yes, as a matter of fact I do

(MT)Montanafowler wrote:they're actually trying to get the bodies off the mountain these days, too much debris from backpacks and coats and stuff. i don't get the leave someone to die thing either.

Read the book "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer. It's about climbing Everest, I think in the 90's, when a bunch of climbers died on the mountain. The author was one of the people climbing that year and had to walk away from people who were not going to survive. It's a really amazing book and explains a lot of the issues experienced in high altitude climbing.

I have absolutely no interest in climbing Everest. F that! For what, to say you did it, lost two toes to frostbite, have troubles breathing, and losing a friend in the process? No thanks, id rather take my chances on Lake Ontario!

Tiler_J wrote:

(MT)Montanafowler wrote:they're actually trying to get the bodies off the mountain these days, too much debris from backpacks and coats and stuff. i don't get the leave someone to die thing either.

Read the book "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer. It's about climbing Everest, I think in the 90's, when a bunch of climbers died on the mountain. The author was one of the people climbing that year and had to walk away from people who were not going to survive. It's a really amazing book and explains a lot of the issues experienced in high altitude climbing.

While having never read that book I've read several firsthand accounts of people's ascent and descent on Everest. It's pretty insane. They referenced using dead people as markers for where you are.

Not to hijack but read something about some climbers getting to the top and paragliding down the other day.

http://i.gadling.com/2011/05/24/two-cli ... f-everest/

Also, doesn't k2 have a higher percentage of deaths over Everest? With something like 1 in 4 who attempt dying.

Each of the emotional responders who said No man left behind and insist someone must do something...would be dead on that mountain because of that choice.

I'm with Betty. I'd step over any one of you to get off that mountain. Don't want to freeze sitting down in a cave? Don't sit down in a fucking cave on mt everest.

flight control wrote:I'm with Betty. I'd step over any one of you to get off that mountain. Don't want to freeze sitting down in a cave? Don't sit down in a fucking cave on mt everest.

Or just stay the fuck off the mountain

I think a snowmobile would be much faster, fuck walking!

aunt betty wrote:Each of the emotional responders who said No man left behind and insist someone must do something...would be dead on that mountain because of that choice.

Maybe, maybe not. Maybe I'm just a big softy at heart. I couldn't walk away from some one that's goin to die that horrible of a death........ Then again Im never climbing that mother fucker. So I guess I'm full of shit.

We kill ducks. Sometimes with our bare hands. Its a cruel world and if you fuck up, you die. No obamacare on mount Everest.

Tiler_J wrote:

(MT)Montanafowler wrote:they're actually trying to get the bodies off the mountain these days, too much debris from backpacks and coats and stuff. i don't get the leave someone to die thing either.

Read the book "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer. It's about climbing Everest, I think in the 90's, when a bunch of climbers died on the mountain. The author was one of the people climbing that year and had to walk away from people who were not going to survive. It's a really amazing book and explains a lot of the issues experienced in high altitude climbing.

x2. It's an awesome story. But I still maintain that those who do that shit are basically juvenile, insecure little people. I don't have to prove shit to anybody, least of all myself. You want to prove you "got what it takes"? Go work a couple jobs, support and raise a family, give people a reason to respect you. "I climbed a big mountain" would get you ridiculed right out of my house.

Those dumb fucks all deserved to die. They could have spent that same amount of money on a vacation to Hawaii.

BrewGUN wrote:I have absolutely no interest in climbing Everest. F that! For what, to say you did it, lost two toes to frostbite, have troubles breathing, and losing a friend in the process? No thanks, id rather take my chances on Lake Ontario!

More people have perished on lake ontario than mt everest for sure.

assateague wrote:

Tiler_J wrote:

(MT)Montanafowler wrote:they're actually trying to get the bodies off the mountain these days, too much debris from backpacks and coats and stuff. i don't get the leave someone to die thing either.

Read the book "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer. It's about climbing Everest, I think in the 90's, when a bunch of climbers died on the mountain. The author was one of the people climbing that year and had to walk away from people who were not going to survive. It's a really amazing book and explains a lot of the issues experienced in high altitude climbing.

x2. It's an awesome story. But I still maintain that those who do that shit are basically juvenile, insecure little people. I don't have to prove shit to anybody, least of all myself. You want to prove you "got what it takes"? Go work a couple jobs, support and raise a family, give people a reason to respect you. "I climbed a big mountain" would get you ridiculed right out of my house.

Yep, what Assa said.

waterfowlman wrote:Those dumb fucks all deserved to die. They could have spent that same amount of money on a vacation to Hawaii.

More like 10 Hawaii vacations. At over $100k you'd definitely have cash left for tipping and hookers.

QH's Paw wrote:

waterfowlman wrote:Those dumb fucks all deserved to die. They could have spent that same amount of money on a vacation to Hawaii.

More like 10 Hawaii vacations. At over $100k you'd definitely have cash left for tipping and hookers.

Are you fucking serious? What a waste.

The Duck Hammer wrote:

QH's Paw wrote:Are you fucking serious? What a waste.

I know someone who was looking to climb to Everest base camp and that was going to be over 20k. I can easily see a bid for the summit being six figures.

Yeah, c'Mon...Tibet, sherpas AND we get to eat space food while sleeping in bad ass mountain tents. So cool I'll just sit here and freeeze.

Mount Everest

FUCK THAT SHIT!!!!!