Everest

[misterdubya]

Having looked / researched into a possible climb up (getting back to fitness and having climbed to 17000ft before I became poorly), I was pretty shocked by what's in store.

The climb is difficult.... that's a given. The corpses that have failed isn't an issue... but the stories behind a few is. It would appear that one route (Northern Face approach) has a marker called Green boots

I have no idea if he or David Sharp are still up there in the death zone (over 8000 metres), but I suspect they are - I think you become part of the mountain if you succumb to the conditions up there.

What I cannot understand, is that they may of been saved. Without being there, I can agree that they may not have been saveable, but to pass dying men in pursuit of a mountain top is shocking.

I just couldn't leave someone and if it endangered my life, I'd do whatever I could to give them peace for a long as possible. Screw getting to the top then..... go back down and try again.

 

[Norcon]

About 150 bodies are littered on the slopes of Everest. Seems a bit ghoulish to even want to hike past that.
Never mind the stupidness of wanting to climb a rock in the first place.

And also the waste of money. You would be better off giving your £40k to a childrens charity instead of using it to fund an ego trip.

 

[misterdubya]

I walk past a cemetery once a week on my way to the pub. 4 times the amount of bodies in there....

What your point?

Oh, so you assume I'm not doing it for charity then? Even with £70k costs, I can donate £100k. I doubt Ill get that by running round the cemetery 100 times.

 

[misterdubya]

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[enyam]

What I cannot understand, is that they may of been saved. Without being there, I can agree that they may not have been saveable, but to pass dying men in pursuit of a mountain top is shocking.

I just couldn't leave someone and if it endangered my life, I'd do whatever I could to give them peace for a long as possible. Screw getting to the top then..... go back down and try again.

Isn't it a case of virtual suicide to attempt a rescue,I'm guessing here that most of the dead are up on the highest slopes and the actual time spent at the summit is minutes because they have to get down to a camp to survive the night's.

 

[misterdubya]

Never mind the stupidness of wanting to climb a rock in the first place.

I happen to like climbing 'rocks'. It's quite narrow minded to assume someone is stupid because they something you don't. Mind you, that does sum you up really. Laughing stock of the CC, and a general annoyance in GD forum.

 

[Norcon]

Glad to know I'm popular.

Before you gasmen got to the cc you were the laughing stock of the plumbing forum.

 

[misterdubya]

Yes enyam. My point was forsaking a summit attempt (eg 5 hours for the last 100m vertical climb) if a fellow person needs comfort in their last minutes / hours slightly lower down the upper slopes.

 

[Micilin]

MisterD,

I am meeting a man on Weds who has done Everest and apart from raising money for charity found it to be an 'experience of a lifetime' - and for once the phrase is apt.

Anything you would like me to ask him?

I heard something recently about climbersnow have to come down with Xkg of rubbish - did you see that anywhere?

 

[Norcon]

Why don't you go to a hospice and comfort someone there in their last moments who deserves it instead of some idiot on a mountain side?

 

[Micilin]

Why don't you go to a hospice and comfort someone there in their last moments who deserves it instead of some idiot on a mountain side?

Check out Luke 10:25-37 as you walk past the idiot , it's a good story.

 

[misterdubya]

No Micilin.... its been a while since I was up. If I can PM you, there are a couple of questions I'd like to ask. I think I need to add you as a friend to do that if that s OK?

 

[Norcon]

Little chance of me walking past any idiots on a mountain side.

 

[misterdubya]

Little chance of me walking past any idiots on a mountain side.

Ain't that the truth! I suspect the irony of your post is lost on you.

 

[LastMagicBean]

I heard a few months ago that a planned 'clean-up' of Everest was being implemented.

Local sherpas are taking a skip type thing with them, to clean up all the bodies and general sh*t left behind from thoughtless climbers.

I'd have thought it would have all been covered with snow.??? Apparently not.