Mountaineering is a sport not for wimps and cowards.
August 8 — international day of mountaineering, and today, we remember those for whom better than mountains can be only mountains, which have not yet been. This activity is fraught with many dangers, but despite all this, every year thousands of people go on a journey from which they will likely not come back, and you know it.
On Everest the climbers pass by unburied bodies scattered here and there, are climbers, only they were not lucky. One of them fell and broke bones, someone cold or just weakened and still froze.
What morality can be at an altitude of 8000 meters above sea level? Here it is every man for himself, just to survive.
1. If I want to prove to yourself that you are mortal, you should try to visit the Everest.
2. Most likely, all of these people who were left lying there, thought it’s not about them. And now they are as a reminder that not everything is in the hands of man.
3. Statistics defectors there is no the climb basically savages, and in small groups of three to five people. And the price of this ascent is from 25T to 60t $. Sometimes pay extra life if saved on the details. So, eternal guard there were about 150 people, maybe 200. And many who have visited there say they feel look black climber, rests in the back, because right on the Northern route is eight openly lying bodies. Among them two Russians. From the South is about ten. But deviate from the paved trail climbers are already afraid, can not get out, and no one to save them will not climb.
4. Creepy tales walk among climbers who have been to the top, because it does not forgive mistakes and human indifference. In 1996, a group of climbers from a Japanese University in Fukuoka have climbed mount Everest. Very close to their route were three in distress climbers from India — exhausted, icy people asked for help, they have experienced high-altitude storm. The Japanese passed. When the Japanese group descended, the rescue was already certain – the Indians were cold.
5. It is alleged corpse of the first climber to conquer Everest, who died on the descent.
It is believed that Mallory first reached the summit and died already on the way down. In 1924, Mallory and his partner Irving began to climb. They were last seen in binoculars in the clouds break only 150 meters from the summit. Then the clouds came together and climbers disappeared.
They were not given back, only in 1999, at the altitude of 8290 m, the next conquerors of the top across the many bodies of the dead for the last 5-10 years. Among them I found Mallory. He was lying on his stomach, as if trying to hug the mountain, head and hands are frozen into the slope.
Teammate Irvine was never found, although binding on the body of Mallory said that the couple was with each other until the very end. The rope was cut with a knife and possibly Irving could move and leaving a comrade died somewhere below the hill.
6. Wind and snow do their work, those places on the body that are not covered by clothing, snow wind gnawed to the bone and the older the corpse, the less it is of the flesh. Evacuate the dead climbers nobody is going, the helicopter can not rise to such a height, and drag myself to the carcass from 50 to 100 pounds is not altruists. And lie unburied climbers on the slopes.
7. Well, not quite so all climbers are so selfish, still save and not leave in the lurch their own. Many who died are guilty.
For established personal record of oxygen-free climbing, American Francis Arsentiev already on the descent lay exhausted for two days on the southern slope of Everest. By frozen, but still alive women passed climbers from different countries. One offered her oxygen (from which she at first refused, not wanting to spoil his record), others poured a few SIPS of hot tea, there was even a couple who tried to get people to sneak her into the camp, but they soon left, as he risked his own life.
American husband, Russian climber Sergei Arsent’ev, with whom they had lost on the descent, did not wait for her in the camp, and went in search of her, which also died.
