Re:A small, delayed avalanche may have been responsible for ...
by garmaine on Friday January 29, 2021 @02:36AM
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When George Mallory was found on Everest, scavengers had eaten his internal organs from one hole in his (frozen) skin. He was like a human-shaped shell.
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Re:A small, delayed avalanche may have been responsible for ...
by detaro on Friday January 29, 2021 @02:52AM
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What scavengers would that be? No small animal capable of doing that is known to be able to survive at that height. small number of birds can fly that high, that's about it.
Re:A small, delayed avalanche may have been responsible for ...
by garmaine on Friday January 29, 2021 @03:14AM
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The lammergeyer, a sort of high-altitude vulture. They're known to eat the dead on Everest.
Re:A small, delayed avalanche may have been responsible for ...
by matkoniecz on Friday January 29, 2021 @04:49AM
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> They even have been observed living at altitudes of 7,500 m (24,600 ft) on Mount Everest
> The bearded vulture is the only known vertebrate whose diet consists almost exclusively (70 to 90 percent) of bone.
> The bearded vulture (Gypaetus barbatus), also known as the lammergeier and ossifrage
Re:A small, delayed avalanche may have been responsible for ...
by kens on Friday January 29, 2021 @12:16PM
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"ossifrage" is interesting to see in a sentence because the word appeared in a famous 1977 RSA cryptographic challenge with the solution "The magic words are squeamish ossifrage". The challenge appeared in Martin Gardner's Scientific American column and took 17 years to break.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Magic_Words_are_Squeamis...