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I heard a Chinese team actually threw some bodies into crevasses and over the side of the mountain, which although sounds harsh it does take the bodies away from public gaze through pictures like this and sort of commits them to the mountain. People in these pictures have living relatives
I read a story somewhere about the dead climber nicknamed "sleeping beauty" because her face looked so peaceful like she was sleeping. It led me into this rabbit hole of corpses on Everest. Even more depressing was the fact that her fiancé also died when he went back up to rescue her!
The name does not point to its natural beauty or vibrant flora, but for the colorful down jackets of fallen climbers strown across its landscape. To date, it’s estimated that some 340 people have died climbing Mount Everest and that there are approximately 200 dead bodies still on the mountain.
In 2019, 11 people died on Everest during a record season with a huge number of climbers. Videos shared on social media showed climbers waiting in long queues to advance up the mountain. [18] Due to the difficulties and dangers in bringing bodies down, most who die on the mountain remain where they fall.
8 paź 2015 · Photographs by Rachel Nuwer. I admit to feeling a certain morbid curiosity at the thought of Paljor and all the other fallen climbers on the mountain, stranded far from loved ones and frozen in...
2 lip 2017 · In September 1975, British mountaineers Dougal Haston and Doug Scott were forced to spend a night in the Death Zone after reaching Everest’s summit late in the day. They dug a snow hole and huddled in for the night, unsure if they would survive until morning. They soon ran out of oxygen.
23 maj 2016 · Now BBC News reports that three more climbers have died on the mountain in the space of four days: Subhash Paul from India, Eric Ary Arnold from Holland and Maria Strydom from Australia. And...
