I read a story about how many bodies are on the mountain, even used as landmarks by climbers. It makes sense, but I had never really thought about it.
http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20151008-the-graveyard-in-the-clouds-everests-200-dead-bodies On Sunday, May 22, 2016, Bill Prince <[email protected] <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','[email protected]');>> wrote: > You should read Jon Krakauer's "*Into Thin Air*". It's a first hand > account of a climb up Everest back in 1996. It goes into some of those > details about oxygen starvation, and the cold. There are parts that he > doesn't remember and/or has a partial memory of. Quite a good read. > > <http://www.amazon.com/Into-Thin-Air-Personal-Disaster/dp/0385494785> > http://www.amazon.com/Into-Thin-Air-Personal-Disaster/dp/0385494785 > > bp > <part15sbs{at}gmail{dot}com> > > > On 5/22/2016 6:36 PM, Chuck McCown wrote: > > One of the Everest climbers that died from altitude sickness this week was > a vegan on a mission to prove the vegans are as strong and robust as > everyone else. Was attempting to prove the point by climbing mountains. > > I wonder if they are on oxygen all the way up and back down (above 15,000 > feet or so)? That is a lot of oxygen. > > I know that if you neglect to put on your oxygen in a small plane, you go > to sleep about 18,000. Happened to my wife once. I was too busy flying > and complying to tell her I had left 13,000 for 23,000. She didn’t respond > to gentle prodding or voice, so I put a cannula on her and she was fine a > minute later. > > Everest is >29,000 feet. Hard to believe it can be done, even with > oxygen. > > >
