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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.
by garmaine 6y ago
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.
- detaro 6y agoWhat 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.
- garmaine 6y agoThe lammergeyer, a sort of high-altitude vulture. They're known to eat the dead on Everest.
- matkoniecz 6y ago> 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 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bearded_vulture https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bearded_vulture
- retrac 6y ago> ossifrage the bone-breaker Appropriate.
- kens 6y ago"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_Squeamish_Ossifrage https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Magic_Words_are_Squeamis...