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Why Climbers Die On Mount Everest
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.
No, because they're high. Duh.
That's why!
The reason that nobody Rs TFA is because the answers are so bleeding obvious.
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.
It's just a name, like the Forbidden Zone or the Zone of no Return. All the zones have names like that on the Mountain of Terror
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"next up death's while walking the Marinara Trench" -- I'd guess that would be caused by too much pizza ingestion...
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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.
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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!
Like biting peoples arms?
Hmm why do climbers die on everest? wweellll jeeez, its a giant mound of rock and ice that humans are not designed to be climbing on naturally. Thanks for the clarification science!
Marinara Trench? that sounds more delicious than deadly. or are the deaths caused by contracting food-poisoning at Sizzler?
perhaps you meant Mariana?
Just in case
Could be worse. You could make it all they way to the bottom and then die.
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.
Oh, you're not stuck, you're just unable to let go of the onion rings.
Marinara Trench? that sounds more delicious than deadly. or are the deaths caused by contracting food-poisoning at Sizzler?
Sizzler? They still exist?
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This is Slashdot. You were alone in the shower, and whatever you were doing I don't want to think about.
Gun violence and cancer are the 2 killers on Everest. How could they miss this?
"Hackers" was about computers?!
No that's just a myth started by the same people who thought Smallville was about Superman.
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.
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.
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Or Galactica about science fiction.
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I think it's because they are in the "death zone".
If that were to be avoided.... Hmmmmm....
Yep, that's my recommendation. Avoid the "death zone".
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Goodness, I feel dirty just writing that
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This is CLEARLY a job for the Space Elevator!
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.
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Meh, stuff the body in a zorb and pick it up at the foot of the mountain.
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"All the zones have names like that in the Galaxy of Terror."
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.
Yep, that's my recommendation. Avoid the "death zone".
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.
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"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.
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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.
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Poor bastard probably thought he was out of danger too.
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