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Over 200 Dead Bodies on Mount Everest
http://sometimes-interesting.com/2011/06/29/over-200-dead-bodies-on-mount-everest/ ^ | June 29, 2011 | staff reporter

Posted on 11/29/2012 5:45:33 PM PST by Daffynition

Mount Everest has claimed the lives of over 216 known mountain climbers in recorded history. The area above 26,000 feet is called “the Death Zone”, where breathing fresh oxygen from canisters is necessary for all but the most experienced climbers. The atmospheric pressure is about a third of that at sea level, so there is about one third the amount of oxygen to breathe. The air is so thin, recovery of bodies is impossible. As such, many victims lay where they took their last breath.

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TOPICS: Outdoors; Sports; Travel
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To: Cvengr

Sherpa Lining is people!!...


21 posted on 11/29/2012 6:30:50 PM PST by GeronL (http://asspos.blogspot.com)
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To: Cvengr

Whenever I had gloves like that, they would always get wet and suck.


22 posted on 11/29/2012 6:31:12 PM PST by BRK
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To: blueunicorn6

At least Susan Rice can grow hair.


23 posted on 11/29/2012 6:31:23 PM PST by bigheadfred
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To: Cvengr

Poor old Mishmush....they made him into gloves. Well, you have to hand it to him.


24 posted on 11/29/2012 6:35:03 PM PST by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: righttackle44
Not on my bucket list....I hate waiting in long lines..................anywhere.


25 posted on 11/29/2012 6:36:58 PM PST by Daffynition (Self-respect: the secure feeling that no one, as yet, is suspicious. ~ HLM)
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To: blueunicorn6

26 posted on 11/29/2012 6:41:46 PM PST by Daffynition (Self-respect: the secure feeling that no one, as yet, is suspicious. ~ HLM)
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To: Daffynition
Don't Move!

Everything that glitters

27 posted on 11/29/2012 6:43:51 PM PST by bigheadfred
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To: Daffynition
Speaking of climbing take a moment to ponder this 90 minute ascent .
28 posted on 11/29/2012 6:46:02 PM PST by Baynative
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To: Daffynition

Bill and Hillary have more victims than that.


29 posted on 11/29/2012 6:46:13 PM PST by HereInTheHeartland (Witty saying goes here...)
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To: Wyrd bið ful aræd; al baby
Now I know where they find this....


30 posted on 11/29/2012 6:49:13 PM PST by GeronL (http://asspos.blogspot.com)
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To: Fightin Whitey; bigheadfred
WWHLD or

What Would Hannibal Lector Do

31 posted on 11/29/2012 6:49:59 PM PST by BipolarBob (Never lick a gift horse in the mouth.)
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To: Daffynition

Neat ant farm. Is that bleached flour instead of dirt?

Seriously,....surviving ‘mount obawmuh’ may be an equally dangerous experience.


32 posted on 11/29/2012 6:52:08 PM PST by Zuriel (Acts 2:38,39....nearly 2,000 years and still working today!)
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To: bigheadfred

And she walks like Dick Butkus but I could still take her in five rounds after she wore out her hands on my face.


33 posted on 11/29/2012 6:55:47 PM PST by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: Cvengr

“Explains how they make these:”

Well, first they collect the dead females that were parachuted off of Everest. You see, they are made by Sherpas and not of Sherpas.

Which leads me to believe there is some conspiracy going on.


34 posted on 11/29/2012 6:57:43 PM PST by EQAndyBuzz (George W. Bush is the Emmanuel Goldstein of the modern era.)
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To: GeronL

Now there’s a job for Harry Reid....deboning pork rectums while he’s inverted. I see they also get inspected....that’s Nancy Pelosi’s job.


35 posted on 11/29/2012 6:59:41 PM PST by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: blueunicorn6

She DOES walk like Dick Butkus! Thanks for pinning that down. But if she got past your knees after five, hey, what?


36 posted on 11/29/2012 7:00:29 PM PST by bigheadfred
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To: blueunicorn6

lol


37 posted on 11/29/2012 7:00:53 PM PST by GeronL (http://asspos.blogspot.com)
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To: BipolarBob; Fightin Whitey
What Would Hannibal Lector Do

Sometimes you have to go down to go up.

38 posted on 11/29/2012 7:03:00 PM PST by bigheadfred
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To: Daffynition

But when the Messiah comes (and i don’t mean Obamessiah) they’ll be closer to Heaven than the rest of us!


39 posted on 11/29/2012 7:03:46 PM PST by Revolting cat! (Bad things are wrong! Ice cream is delicious!)
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To: Daffynition
I know I'm gonna be slammed for this but my opinion is...NO SYMPATHY.There's a reason why I've never jumped out of an airplane,driven 100MPH on I-95 or attempted to climb Everest..it's DANGEROUS!
40 posted on 11/29/2012 7:13:49 PM PST by Gay State Conservative (Benghazi: What Did Baraq Know And When Did He Know It?)
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