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Helicopters don't fly that high.
Now that's just trolling.
Helicopters don't fly that high.
As someone pointed out in this thread, helicopters don't function well at al ude. You'd be risking more lives for the already dead.
Maybe they could use Harriers.
For what? To BLOW the bodies off the mountain?
All you need are two climbers. The first guy lifts the second one off his feet, then the second guy lifts him, and eventually they're at the top of mount everest.
I'm sure people who die on Everest are probably okay with their remains staying there; as opposed to being shipped back to a crowded graveyard in Kentucky or some such awful place.
Yeah I'm pretty sure its a cash incentive for the bottles that climbers bring down...
And I forgot that there was a camp 4, thats where most of them (canisters) are, near the south col.
why not just ride the corpses down like a sled, like on the simpsons?
They leave the dead bodies there because it is practically impossible to carry a dead body down, specially considering that body is probably frozen solid.
There is no point, other than sentimentalism and that isn't worth risking more lives over.
If they didn't bring Mallory down when they found him back in 99, they sure as ain't bringing down the others.
by the way,
these are Scott Fischer's remains. Those that read into thin air might remember his name being mentioned. One of the guides of that expedition.
Plus you gotta remember the air is so thin up there, it's a struggle in of itself just to move around, let alone carry a huge icicle down. And it's fairly obvious no one will screw around with the remains - it's not Somalia.
They can drag down a frozen woolly mammoth but they can not drag down a hiker who has not eaten since 1924?
That's what happens when you try to take on Medusa.
I'm not sure that there isn't attempts to remove bodies from Everest. They've removed a few in May 2010 or so it says on some news releases. I guess, though, it all depends on where you end up 'situ'.
Were they removed from above the death zone? That would be shocking to me, though I have heard a lot of (most?) the bodies below either the 2nd or 3rd camp are usually recovered. Even then, I can't imagine carrying a body across the enormous crevasses of the ice falls.
This is true...can't find any info on where it was he died...
A lot of the time, the families of those who died want their bodies to stay were they fell.
I'm sure the extensive cost of funding an expedition to hire someone to go retrieve their loved one has something to do with that.
Yeah, a typical Everest trip is enormously expensive. Not only do you pay through the nose for the permit from Nepal (I think you need one for anything beyond Everest base camp), but you have to hire porters to carry 1.5+ months of supplies to base camp and then do the ~8-10 day hike to get there. Then you stay in base camp two weeks to acclimate and to setup your next camp and take supplies to it in dayhikes, returning to sleep at base camp. Then do the same from camp 2 to camp 3 (though maybe a day or two acclimation / waiting out storms) and then the same from camp 3 to 4. Then after you return to base camp, another 8-10 days to hike back to civilization.
Busy Weekend at Everest...3 dead 2 missing...
http://news.yahoo.com/3-dead-2-missi...125738337.html
How long before the Jackass crew go there and have Steve-o perform the "triple dog dare" from "A Christmas Story"?
Might as well be playing Russian roulette
wtfthey leave the dead bodies there because it is practically impossible to carry a dead body down, specially considering that body is probably frozen solid.
There is no point, other than sentimentalism and that isn't worth risking more lives over.
If they didn't bring mallory down when they found him back in 99, they sure as ain't bringing down the others.
By the way,
these are scott fischer's remains. Those that read into thin air might remember his name being mentioned. One of the guides of that expedition.
I think it's something like one death for every 20 successful summits now. And only 1 out of 3 who try are able to summit. I think most people who die do it on the descent, so the death rate is probably something like 1 out of every 60 climbers.
Can you imagine the feeling of climbing up there and then passing through those frozen skeleton? Yikes.
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