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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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