Awesome story on Mt. Everest

[Gambino]

I've conquered Curwood and Arvon. Also hiked Bohemia on snowshoes before it was a ski hill. Although they did make a great hill out of it.

wtf is mt pleasent?
is their any mtns near by? i don't think so
are you on myspace? bokas is on my friend list if you wanna gay out with him

 

[hanselthecaretaker]

wtf is mt pleasent?
is their any mtns near by? i don't think so
are you on myspace? bokas is on my friend list if you wanna gay out with him

I don't want your sloppy seconds bro!

Yeah I'm baffled about where the mountain is in pleasant too.

 

[JayC9]

Remember reading about this now a couple of months ago. The double amputee guy and his team copped a lot of stick from the climbing community for not doing more to help Sharp, bad form abandoning a climber in distress without even attempting a rescue. Guess it's an ethical debate to whether they did he right thing or not by making the decision to leave him to freeze to death on the mountain.

 

[JayC9]

Do they just leave the bodies on the slopes up there forever?

No way of bringing the body down from such a high altitude without endangering the lives of other recovering it. Often it would seem a fitting resting place for a climber who's been passionate about the mountains all his/her life.

In Roth's book 'Eiger Wall of Death' he talks about an Italian climber Stefano Longhi who was a grizzly spectacle for the Grindelwald telescope viewers from 1953 until 1959 when a group of climbers from his hometown managed to cut him down and lower his body off the mountain. Until then his corpse had swung in the breeze on the end of his climbing rope in full view of everyone who gazed up at the face. There’s a famous picture of Toni Kurz the German climber who suffered the same fate in 1936, his dead frozen body also dangling at the end of a rope.

 

[hanselthecaretaker]

No way of bringing the body down from such a high altitude without endangering the lives of other recovering it. Often it would seem a fitting resting place for a climber who's been passionate about the mountains all his/her life.

In Roth's book 'Eiger Wall of Death' he talks about an Italian climber Stefano Longhi who was a grizzly spectacle for the Grindelwald telescope viewers from 1953 until 1959 when a group of climbers from his hometown managed to cut him down and lower his body off the mountain. Until then his corpse had swung in the breeze on the end of his climbing rope in full view of everyone who gazed up at the face. There’s a famous picture of Toni Kurz the German climber who suffered the same fate in 1936, his dead frozen body also dangling at the end of a rope.

Wouldn't that be reason enough for them to excuse responsibility on other climbers for not helping?
Also, that'd be pretty freaky seeing a corpse swinging in the wind there on a mountain.