| Interesting read on mountaineering deaths and debris collection 07:55 - Jul 20 with 501 views | WeWereZombies |
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c9r31g50xqdo
'Tshiring Jangbu Sherpa cannot forget the dead body he saw just metres from the summit of Mount Lhotse in the Himalayas more than a decade ago...curious why the Czech climber had died so close to the top. One of the gloves on the frozen corpse was missing...every climber scaling Mount Lhotse thereafter had to step past it...Sherpa, 46, had no idea then that he would return 12 years later to retrieve the climber’s body, as part of a team of a dozen military personnel and 18 sherpas deployed by the Nepali army to clean up the high Himalayas.'
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| Interesting read on mountaineering deaths and debris collection on 08:33 - Jul 20 with 443 views | Churchman |
Thanks for posting this. Interesting. I knew there were a lot of bodies in the Himalayas but had no idea anyone was trying to retrieve them.
I’m never quite sure whether climbing at those altitudes is an act of bravery or insanity. Probably a bit of both. I do know that you can be as fit as you possibly can be and just die up there. And fast.
As a skier and someone who’s been out in -20c and worse, I know how debilitating cold can be. Beyond -10, you can feel your body fighting it regardless of wearing the right gear (it’s improved no end over the years). And then there’s altitude. Even at somewhere only 2 miles up (Colorado) it takes a while to acclimatise and some people never do.
I can’t imagine how hard it must be in the Himalayas. Beyond awful. Somebody who interests me is Ernest Shackleton and the 1914 trans-Antarctic expedition. An amazing tale of endurance (coincidently the ship’s name), leadership, skill and utter relentless misery. |  | | |
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