Why Climbers Die On Mount Everest 417
Science Daily reports that researchers have conducted the first detailed analysis of deaths during expeditions to the summit of Mt. Everest. They found that
most deaths occur during descents from the summit in the so-called "death zone" above 8,000 meters, and also identified factors that appear to be associated with a greater risk of death, particularly symptoms of high-altitude cerebral edema. The big surprise that the data indicate those deaths aren't primarily from avalanches or falling ice, as had long been believed.
Re:Title is obvious. (Score:1, Funny)
No, because they're high. Duh.
Why people die on mount everest (Score:5, Funny)
This is silly (Score:5, Funny)
It has nothing to do with O2 - the deaths are caused by Yetis.
Like many guard dogs, they will happily let you onto the property. They just don't let you back out again.
Obligatory mangled Futurama quote (Score:5, Funny)
Re:News flash... (Score:3, Funny)
"next up death's while walking the Marinara Trench" -- I'd guess that would be caused by too much pizza ingestion...
Re:Damn (Score:5, Funny)
This depends on who you were in the shower with and what you were doing at the time.
The low temperature and lack of oxygen preclude any such interesting developments on top of Mt. Everest.
"death zone" (Score:2, Funny)
most deaths occur during descents from the summit in the so-called "death zone"
Well, there's your problem! Just name that part of the mountain something else!
Re:What about death from dumbassery (Score:2, Funny)
genius (Score:4, Funny)
Re:News flash... (Score:5, Funny)
Marinara Trench? that sounds more delicious than deadly. or are the deaths caused by contracting food-poisoning at Sizzler?
perhaps you meant Mariana [wikipedia.org]?
Re:It's part of the risk/fun! (Score:5, Funny)
Just in case
Re:Damn (Score:5, Funny)
Could be worse. You could make it all they way to the bottom and then die.
Another unexpected way... (Score:4, Funny)
One of my friends went to hike Everest... he didn't make it very far up. Eating food from some of the natives made him very sick (projectiles from both ends), and he was drug off to a hospital. He didn't die, but it was a possibility in his condition.
THAT would suck... travel half-way around the world, to be taken down by tourist food.
Re:News flash... (Score:3, Funny)
Marinara Trench? that sounds more delicious than deadly. or are the deaths caused by contracting food-poisoning at Sizzler?
Sizzler? They still exist?
Re:Damn (Score:3, Funny)
This is Slashdot. You were alone in the shower, and whatever you were doing I don't want to think about.
Everyone knows....its the gun violence (Score:3, Funny)
Re:surprise? (Score:5, Funny)
"Hackers" was about computers?!
No that's just a myth started by the same people who thought Smallville was about Superman.
Re:Damn (Score:5, Funny)
This is Slashdot. You were alone in the shower, and whatever you were doing I don't want to think about.
This is Slashdot.
Most of us have only seen pictures of a shower.
Re:Damn (Score:5, Funny)
Could be worse. You could make it all they way to the bottom and then die.
Well doesn't that happen to everyone who gets to the bottom. I mean eventually.
Re:This is silly (Score:3, Funny)
It is common knowledge that this is only because breath mints are difficult to find in the Himalayas.
Re:This is silly (Score:5, Funny)
Yetis love Whoppers (the malted-milk ball candy). If you bring enough to share, they might let you live.
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Re:surprise? (Score:3, Funny)
Or Galactica about science fiction.
Re:You get bends going UP (Score:5, Funny)
If that were to be avoided.... Hmmmmm....
Yep, that's my recommendation. Avoid the "death zone".
I had to do this.. (Score:3, Funny)
Re:surprise? (Score:5, Funny)
Goodness, I feel dirty just writing that
Re:Damn (Score:3, Funny)
Get someone into space, enjoy a nice little elevator ride down to the summit of Everest, maybe have a hot chocolate in the bistro, then shoot on back up the elevator on the next ride and back into space to be brought down to earth safely with a big jet or re-entry capsule. Gawd, I can't believe no-one thought of this already.
Re:Damn (Score:5, Funny)
Meh, stuff the body in a zorb and pick it up at the foot of the mountain.
Re:You get bends going UP (Score:4, Funny)
"All the zones have names like that in the Galaxy of Terror."
Think of the handicapped! (Score:2, Funny)
I think there should be a cable carriage or a vertical tunnel with elevator inside that takes to the top of Mt. Everest.
Currently there is a discrimination against the ill, disabled or elderly persons, who are not able to visit the summit, because they are unable to climb up there.
The UN Declaration of Human Rights codifies people have to right to travel where-ever they want. Technology does allow for mechanized transport service for the Mt. Everest, therefore it should be provided, just as wheelchair ramps are prescibed by law for public institutions and shopping malls.
Re:You get bends going UP (Score:3, Funny)
It's just a name, like the Death Zone, or the Zone of No Return. All the zones have names like that in the Galaxy of Terror.
Re:surprise? (Score:2, Funny)
"Hackers" was about computers?!
I thought it was about Angelina Jolie's boobs and the evil of skateboarding and how roller skaters were much more in.
Re:Damn (Score:3, Funny)
That's what happened to Sir Edmund Hillary. He climbed to the top of Everest, made it all the way to the bottom, and then died 55 years later.
Re:Damn (Score:3, Funny)