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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.
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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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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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.
"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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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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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."