Two Billion Pixel Photo of Mount Everest (can you find the climbers?)

Re:Two Billion Pixel Photo of Mount Everest (can you find th... by JohnFromBuffalo on Wednesday December 19, 2012 @03:36PM (#4944673)

Can you find the dead climber? That's the real question. I found one already.

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Re:Two Billion Pixel Photo of Mount Everest (can you find th... by lutze on Thursday December 20, 2012 @12:49AM (#4946459)

Shouldn't be that hard, there are loads of the poor buggers. Just look around the climbing routes, they don't (can't) move most of the bodies AFAIK.

Bit morbid though.

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Re:Two Billion Pixel Photo of Mount Everest (can you find th... by JohnFromBuffalo on Friday December 21, 2012 @10:24AM (#4952980)

I read Into Thin Air, about the 1996 account by a reporter who was with the crew that lost 4 members. After poking around I saw someone saying the Sherpas will kick bodies in the crevasses and they wash out in the Spring. Sad, but with a rate of 1:4 before 1996, then 1:7 after on death ratios its gotten much better. However, it takes money/balls/stupidity to climb that thing.

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