The tallest mountain on Earth, Mount Everest stands
as the ultimate monolith to be conquered by climbers willing to pay up to
$25,000 for a chance to make it to the top. However, Everest is a
dangerous and inhospitable place; At 26,000 feet climbers enter "The Death
Zone" where the air is so thin that climbers literally start to slowly
die. Instantaneous frostbite is possible and the lack of oxygen
makes climbers bewildered and weak.
Over 200 climbers who ascended Mount Everest never
came down and some of their bodies have been lying on the mountain for
over fifty years, but due to the temperature and low oxygen, they have
been preserved as grisly markers for other more fortunate climbers.
Due to the environment, it is next to impossible to
recover these bodies.

This body has been on the mountain since 1996 and
has been named "Green Boots." It is used as a landmark for climbers.

This woman was found barely alive by a couple.
"Please don't leave me," she cried to them, but the couple knew there was
nothing they could do to help her and were forced to leave her behind.
Eight years later and racked with guilt, they returned to give her a
proper "burial."


This is George Mallory who fell to his death in
1924.


A vast number of the victims were exhausted
climbers who stopped to take a nap and simply never woke up.






Source ; http://slightlywarped.com
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