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At that altitude, the effort to move a dead body is four times the effort at sea level. If you attempt it, you put your own life in danger.

• kbenson 13y ago
  I understand the reasoning why they aren't always recovered, it just never occurred to me that there were bodies that are routinely passed but left up there until now. I'm more horrified by the situation than anything else. That's not to say that the behavior is entirely acceptable. The story of the man whose body froze but was still alive and people just trudged past him assuming he was dead until someone finally heard him moaning softly is particularly horrific. I understand that horrible situations can call for relaxed moral constraints just to survive. Living/fleeing an area seeing active military conflict, severe drought/famine, and any number of other extremely taxing situations can call for harsh decisions in order to survive. I think this is different. What we have here is (I admit, I assume) a bunch of privileged people purposefully submitting themselves to extreme hardship for a sense of accomplishment and meaning. In a way, emulating what they were lucky enough to have avoided by nature of where and who they were born as. I didn't really have strong opinions about mountain climbing at this level before this montage (beyond thinking it's a bit ridiculous), but now I'm somewhat disgusted by it.
  • pvdm 13y ago
    Yes, life and death is sometimes horrific. Makes you appreciate life even more when you contemplate death.