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To: BenLurkin

I wonder how many people are frozen alive climbing Mt Everest? It should be called Death Mountain. I bet there are more frozen corps than anyone imagined, a grave yard of dead mountaineers who froze or fell and then froze. Just be sure you’re not stepping on any on your way up.


3 posted on 10/13/2018 11:52:15 AM PDT by BEJ
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To: BEJ

Here’s one description:

“There is no firm count of the exact number of climbers that have died on Mount Everest, but as of 2016, about 280 climbers have died, about 6.5 percent of the more than 4,000 climbers who have reached the summit since the first ascent by Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay in 1953.”


4 posted on 10/13/2018 11:57:53 AM PDT by jjotto (Next week, BOOM!, for sure!)
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To: BEJ

You can go online, like You Tube for instance and see video of frozen corpses on Everest. It’s takes too much effort to bring them down so they just stay there, for decades.


5 posted on 10/13/2018 12:08:18 PM PDT by jmacusa (Made it Ma, top of the world!'')
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