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

[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?

[Banks2334]

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First of all I know jack sh!t


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Yes, you know jack sh*t. At that elevation, trying to save others becomes dangerous to your own health. Everyone who climbs at that level knows they are responsible for themsleves only. Until you have been there, shut up and don't pass judgement.

[El Diablo]

ed,

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

[krishan]

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Great book definitely.

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Agreed.

Krishan

[Tron]

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First of all I know jack sh!t


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Yes, you know jack sh*t. At that elevation, trying to save others becomes dangerous to your own health. Everyone who climbs at that level knows they are responsible for themsleves only. Until you have been there, shut up and don't pass judgement.

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Don't mind me, I'll just let the first climber to summit Everest pass judgement for me.

[Mrs. Utah]

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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

[Arnfinn Madsen]

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First of all I know jack sh!t


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Yes, you know jack sh*t. At that elevation, trying to save others becomes dangerous to your own health. Everyone who climbs at that level knows they are responsible for themsleves only. Until you have been there, shut up and don't pass judgement.

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I saw a documentary about one instance where this was counterproved. A woman got in trouble relatively close to the camp. An expedition on their way up just passed by her without helping her, the experts claimed that carrying her to the camp would require less effort than climbing to the top (as they chose to do). But if they would have helped her they would of course had to abandon their climb due to limited time frame of daylight, time you can spend at high altitudes etc.. I rather not claim Everest than to give up my basic moral values.

[LeatherFace]

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only boring, goalless, napalm smellers do not attempt this type of [censored].

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[Hobbs.]

jesus, did any of you guys actually read the linked article?

FROM THE ARTICLE IN THE OP:

"More than 1,500 climbers have reached the summit of Mount Everest in the last 53 years and some 190 have died trying."