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You should read 'Into Thin Air' by Jon Krakauer, which details a trip fraught with tragedy the year the IMAX film of an ascent was shot.
It will give you some insight into the mindset of the climbers who are able to step across corpses and ignore the dying.
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http://classic.mountainzone.com/clim...ics/beckw.html
This is a photo of Beck Weathers, one of the climbers that barely survived.
Here is another link-
http://outside.away.com/outside/dest...hin_air_1.html