> Does anyone know why they can't simply send people up with all the modern technology like bottled oxygen to remove the bodies? As mentioned already, almost a

> Does anyone know why they can't simply send people up with all the modern technology like bottled oxygen to remove the bodies? As mentioned already, almost all climbers use bottled oxygen and have done so even in the first ever summit by Hillary et co. The climbs done without bottled oxygen are extremely rare and dangerous, only a handful of people, all experienced climbers, have done so. Bottled oxygen doesn't make you function as well as at sea level, it just prolongs the period a climber can spend in the death zone. But climbing at that altitude is difficult and hard work all the time and there are some narrow ledges and vertical climbs where climbers will essentially have in a queue one at a time. And there's only a few weeks per year when you can actually access the mountain summit. Most of the year the winds in the jet streams will blow at hundreds of miles an hour making the summit inaccessible. During the few weeks preceding the monsoon season, the jet streams will slow down and during that time there are so many climbers going up and down that it is literally crowded to the point that it is hard to move. There have been a few successful rescue attempts of stricken but still alive climbers near the summit but the rescuers essentially risk their own lives to save their buddies. An attempt to recover dead bodies at a risk to your own life is not deemed worth it, even if you disregard all the money and effort it takes.