retrieving bodies on Mt. Everest

[Bassman Ia.]

http://abcnews.go.com/International/...table-47718146


Read this article this morning, 100's of bodies on the mountain???????

[572 Fitter]

Thats pretty crazy to think that many bodys are up there frozen it time.

[Roosterman]

Or that many people are that stupid and naive!

[Chautauquanuy]

Do a Google search for Mt Everest "Green Boots". This dead climber is a well know landmark by climbers.

[juice780]

It's a risk you take when you decide to go. At some parts of the mountain it is too dangerous to try and retrive the bodies. Why risk other people lives.

[local16]

That's pretty wild.

[BigBass94]

I've also read that sometimes climbers use the deceased bodies as mile markers/landmarks. Pretty disturbing but there's not much you can do to retrieve the bodies except go get them. And that's the biggest challenge.

[Iowa Bass Hunter]

So why can't helicopters go all the way to the summit? Is the air too thin to create lift?

[Bsktball55]

So why can't helicopters go all the way to the summit? Is the air too thin to create lift?

I just finished reading Into Thin Air which is about the many people that died in 1996 on the mountain. They talked about evacuating a couple people from the mountain and it said something that that absolute highest the helicopters could go was the Khumbu Icefall which is between base camp and the first camp further up the mountain. It's right around 18,000 feet. Before 1996 they said the last time a helicopter went that high up was back in the 70's and it dangerous going that high.

[ColdSVT]

I just finished reading Into Thin Air which is about the many people that died in 1996 on the mountain. They talked about evacuating a couple people from the mountain and it said something that that absolute highest the helicopters could go was the Khumbu Icefall which is between base camp and the first camp further up the mountain. It's right around 18,000 feet. Before 1996 they said the last time a helicopter went that high up was back in the 70's and it dangerous going that high.

Only a handful of choppers in the world can come close to 20k...that and most don't have pressurized cabins.

Rotorary wing acft and high altitudes don't like eachother at all

[MasterCASTER!]

Correct - air is too thin. Plus the winds are too great.

If you guys remember the show "Everest" that was on tv several years ago - they talked in detail about this exact thing. It's too dangerous to everyone else to try and retrieve the bodies, so they leave them. Perfectly preserved. I got intrigued by this whole topic and did alot of research.......you'd be amazed at how many people are left up there. Creepy.

[dean c]

Heres another good read....http://www.bbc.com/future/story/2015...00-dead-bodies

[Fish Boy]

Very creepy but interesting stuff on this topic.

[572 Fitter]

Ya I'll pass on this climb !

[Babe Winkleworm]

I wonder if my mother in law would like to climb Everest...I'd pay.

[Roosterman]

I wonder if my mother in law would like to climb Everest...I'd pay.

Get a guided trip together and I'll send mine and pay for the whole thing!

[Ryan]

Get a guided trip together and I'll send mine and pay for the whole thing!

If mine goes I will spit the cost with you.

[lakefolk]

If mine goes I will spit the cost with you.

they'd all surely be up for it since it doesn't any skill at all to do it

[Ryan]

they'd all surely be up for it since it doesn't any skill at all to do it

If I told her there is no way she could do it she would try.

[Bassman Ia.]

I wonder if my mother in law would like to climb Everest...I'd pay.

That's cold. My mother in law died 6 years after we married, same year my dad died. My son remembers both of them, my daughter doesn't. Only grandparents my kids really knew was my FIL and his second wife.