a follow up to WTF kind of people does this. Mt. Everest

[Peter666]

I think 25% of the people who attempt to climb Everest die. You can see the corpses while climbing up. I can't believe the indignity of leaving the bodies up there and not trying to at least bury them or bring them down.

[Peter666]

These are the facts:

"Between 1921 and 1999, Everest has been climbed by more than 900 people from twenty countries. More than 150 have lost their lives, the odds being one-in-six of not making it down alive. The dead are left where they perish because the effects of the altitude make it nearly impossible to drag bodies off the mountain. Those ascending Everest pass through an icy graveyard littered with remnants of old tents and equipment, empty oxygen canisters, and frozen corpses."

I'll stick to online poker thanks.

[edfurlong]

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These are the facts:

"Between 1921 and 1999, Everest has been climbed by more than 900 people from twenty countries. More than 150 have lost their lives, the odds being one-in-six of not making it down alive. The dead are left where they perish because the effects of the altitude make it nearly impossible to drag bodies off the mountain. Those ascending Everest pass through an icy graveyard littered with remnants of old tents and equipment, empty oxygen canisters, and frozen corpses."

I'll stick to online poker thanks.

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Is that 900 people that attempted the climb or 900 that made it to the top?

[El Diablo]

ed,

The latest article I read had something like 1500 people making it to the top and 190 dying attempting a summit.