RE: Mt. Everest has around 200 dead bodies (pics)
August 19, 2011 at 12:57 am
(This post was last modified: August 19, 2011 at 1:06 am by The Grand Nudger.)
Nothing to do with burial. I don't know, maybe I wouldn't want to be left there for gawkers, hell, the green boots guy is what, 2 feet from a rope? A few years back they made a documentary out of attempts to climb everest, so they can haul all that video equipment up and down but they can't bring back bodies? Bullshit. 25k a head but no money to buy a hacksaw and a plastic bag, bullshit. Hell, in '02 a group of 50 people made it to the summit. Was 3 lbs a person going to endanger their lives. No. This is a strange sort of apathy in tourism. Apparently 150 people make the summit every year, and I can't help but think that the bodies add to value of the experience, or they wouldn't be there. Obviously this is my own hangup, but it's hard to imagine that in the thousands of people who've made the summit, there aren't some folks who would like to bring these people back down. I know it's not simple, but neither is climbing everest right? We don't balk away from things because they're really really hard. Just seems terrible to me, is all.
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