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Corpses litter the `death zone' near Everest's summit, frozen for eternity »

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EVEREST BASE CAMP, Tibet - To reach the summit of Mount Everest, climbers must ascend through a field of corpses - the bodies of climbers who didn't get off the mountain safely. Frozen solid, the dead climbers are too heavy to remove easily from the treacherous high slopes. Some perch eerily on rocks; others lie stiff in caves.

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TomBiro
May 30, 2007, 12:15 p.m.
That's a staggering, humbling story. Wow. Great post.
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RoyHobbs
May 30, 2007, 12:59 p.m.
That'd make me turn back
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crespi
May 30, 2007, 1:07 p.m.
Ummm...saves the cost of erecting commemorative statues?
(Sorry, people around here told me to try to be more positive but I can't seem to get the hang of it.)
The movie Vertical Limit uses some interesting ideas on this subject. And accurately (Ed Viesturs consulted) portrayed a lot of high climbing dangers.
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ABANOCLA
May 30, 2007, 2:21 p.m.
Mental note: scratch climbing MT Everest off of things to do list before I die:)
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GregD
May 30, 2007, 2:57 p.m.
An interesting tidbit: George Mallory's answer to "Why climb Everest?"..."Because it's there.."
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7734
May 30, 2007, 3:21 p.m.
Hmmm, something to put on my "to do before I die" list. Think I'll make it the last entry.
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OldRusty
May 30, 2007, 5:05 p.m.
Pay enough money and those folks bodies will come down off the mountain.
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Truzseeker
May 30, 2007, 5:31 p.m.
May they rest eternally at the top of the world.
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aceofspades1
May 30, 2007, 8:41 p.m.
Wow what a way to go - climb MT Everest & end up in the frozen food aisle in Borneo
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poloplayer
May 30, 2007, 9:03 p.m.
The "dead zone" where all of these dead climbers are is the same place where George Mallory(possibly the first climber to reach the summit) died in 1924.
Everest is a great sacrifice and the rewards are only the satisfaction that you have stood on the roof of the world.
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tehranchik
May 30, 2007, 10:17 p.m.
No thanks.
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kctrixter
May 30, 2007, 11:46 p.m.
I have climbed Mt. Washington a few times and hiking by the crosses where others have died is well disconcerting to say the least, I don't think I could handle hiking by dead guys sitting on rocks.
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Ruggaboo
May 31, 2007, 1:06 a.m.
It is best explained by people who would risk dying to do something they truly love.
In the blinding light of obsession, many grave risks apparently fall into shadow. I suspect this corpse field could be cleaned up by helicopter quite easily if the cash was made available. At some point it will impact the incomes of the sherpas(guides)and professional climb groups that make their living guiding climbers to the summit.
Maybe then corpse removal/decent burials will be an issue.