Today I learned about dead bodies on Mt. Everest

**cloneswereall** · 06-24-2011, 12:18 PM

Originally Posted by kilgore_trout

A great book about Everest, mountain climbing (and it's perils) is Jon Krakauer's "Touching the Void".

Into Thin Air by him is really good as well.

**heitclone** · 06-24-2011, 01:07 PM

They recently showed the Everest movie at the IMAX at the Henry Doorly Zoo in Omaha, there was a part with a guy basically dying up there while they had radio contact with him. He was able to talk to his family (wife who just had a baby) and some other climbers. When the guy that was the main focus of the movie made his way to the top he had to pass this guy who had been a friend and he had just spoken to. Pretty intense stuff.

**GoCubsGo** · 06-24-2011, 01:10 PM

Originally Posted by Cloner97

wonder how many people are on the mountain at one time on average. Are there any American sherpas?

Who has the facepalm poster handy?

**GoCubsGo** · 06-24-2011, 01:11 PM

Originally Posted by edr247

Obviously, you have to make tough choices in these situations, where on the climb down, you yourself are exhausted, hypothermic and oxygen deprived. However, what about on the climb up? Should the drive to the summit supercede everything else? (Honest question)

This would be an interesting issue to discuss in a philosophy class.

**Cyclonepride** · 06-24-2011, 01:14 PM

I saw this in a documentary that I saw. It must be absolutely brutal up there.

**83Clone** · 06-24-2011, 01:14 PM

Originally Posted by kilgore_trout

A great book about Everest, mountain climbing (and it's perils) is Jon Krakauer's "Touching the Void".

Another is "Into Thin Air"

sorry to repeat, hadn't read all the posts-anyway it's a good read about an expedition gone bad

**isukendall** · 06-24-2011, 01:16 PM

Originally Posted by kilgore_trout

A great book about Everest, mountain climbing (and it's perils) is Jon Krakauer's "Touching the Void".

Sorry, but the book you are referring to is "Into Thin Air". Touching the Void is a film about a different mountain expedition in Peru, not on Everest.
Touching the Void (2003) - IMDb

**CyLoboClone** · 06-24-2011, 01:19 PM

krakauer didn't write touching the void- however that is a story by the climber that is also an amazing documentary as well.

read the climb. It is also about into thin air.

**TykeClone** · 06-24-2011, 01:36 PM

Originally Posted by rworkman83

I honestly had never heard of this. Pretty interesting.

This was from a few years ago...

BBC News | South Asia | Everest pioneer's body found

An expedition to Nepal may be on the brink of discovering whether Mount Everest was conquered 30 years earlier than previously thought.

New Zealander Sir Edmund Hillary and his Nepalese guide Sherpa Tenzing are universally accredited with reaching the summit first, in 1953. But the discovery of the body of an English climber, George Mallory, who disappeared in 1924 while trying to conquer the summit with fellow Briton Andrew Irvine, is set to reopen the question.

**mustangcy** · 06-24-2011, 02:25 PM

Man, is nobody going to comment on that website?!

Everybody has their profile pic of themself with their shirt off..and they all say 'Brah' and 'yo'...man, I'm going to have to start checking this site out because it is freaking hilarious!

**Cyclonestate78** · 06-24-2011, 02:35 PM

Originally Posted by mustangcy

Man, is nobody going to comment on that website?!

Everybody has their profile pic of themself with their shirt off..and they all say 'Brah' and 'yo'...man, I'm going to have to start checking this site out because it is freaking hilarious!

We all know what you are really checking out.

**isukendall** · 06-24-2011, 02:37 PM

Originally Posted by mustangcy

Man, is nobody going to comment on that website?!

Everybody has their profile pic of themself with their shirt off..and they all say 'Brah' and 'yo'...man, I'm going to have to start checking this site out because it is freaking hilarious!

Good point brah! It is hilarious, yo!

**vmbplayer** · 06-24-2011, 02:53 PM

Originally Posted by GoCubsGo

Who has the facepalm poster handy?

Thank you for posting this. I actually did do a facepalm when I read that post and was surprised to see only one response to it.

**edr247** · 06-24-2011, 03:22 PM

Originally Posted by vmbplayer

Thank you for posting this. I actually did do a facepalm when I read that post and was surprised to see only one response to it.

I was going to respond, but didn't know what to say. Perhaps I should have just posted the facepalm pic...

Although, I should add that technically there are American Sherpas. There are about 5000 Sherpa people living in New York, according to Wiki. So, I suppose, they would be American Sherpas.