Mount Everest is the highest point on earth, it is precisely because it is so unique, people from 1953 Edmund? Hillary Mr. successful ascent began, he has been constantly wanted to climb the peak. Everest is located in Nepal, 8,850 meters. Whole mountain across the border of Nepal and China's Tibet region, peak climate is very bad, so climbers are in addition to the period of May, June, difficult to reach success. Even in the jet stream northward in May and June, the mountains the climate is still very grim. Average daily maximum temperature during the month of May 2008 is minus 27 degrees Celsius, a wind of 81 kilometers per hour.
Other times a year, especially when the jet stream directly from the summit of the pass, the wind may reach hurricane strength - 189 kilometers per hour and temperatures up to minus 73 degrees Celsius. That makes it easy to understand why so many of the explorers failed.
But even so, the spirit of exploration still continues, but the spirit of good thing is that people may therefore be killed at any time. Everest News estimates that since 2004, a total of 2,000 people reached the summit, but there are 189 people lost their lives on the way. If you are fortunate enough to become a roughly 150 people each year successful ascent, then in this way we can certainly see something - dead bodies.
Killed trying to climb on the road 189 people, there are about 120 bodies still there. This is a terrible warning to those people later. As for why not put these scattered corpses removed the reason is simple, because it is really too dangerous, too difficult a. Reach the top of Everest is the world's unmatched by anything else physical challenges. The deceased were lost or lift down to take a long time, or even the whole team had to spend the night in the mountains, in fact, this rescue effort akin to suicide.
Most of the bodies were scattered in the "dead zone", which is located above the final base camp, where about 8,000 meters above sea level. No one has studied the specific cause of death, but fatigue and the weather is certainly an important factor. Most of the bodies were immediately frozen, climbing rope still wrapped around his waist. There are some of the bodies have different degrees of decay. Because of this, in recent years, some experienced climbers will try to bury the dead street. Our climbers trek every year to clean up about 120 tons of garbage in the cleaning process, climbers ready to come into contact with any body can safely carry down the mountain.
In 2007, the British climber Ian? More traffic back to Everest climbers he encountered on the way to bury the three dead. One of them is a man named Francis? Sente Wei women, in the first multi-service mountaineering she was still alive, she works say the first words, "Do not leave me." But the harsh reality is that more traffic can not without jeopardizing the case themselves and their teammates do anything for her, she had to leave a man dead.
Over the past decade, advances in technology and the development of technology, climbing Mount Everest has been much safer. Satellite phone can help climbers to keep in touch with home base at any time, to obtain timely weather information. Type and number of people able to better use climbing appliances also greatly reduce the number of fatalities. In 1996, a total of 15 people died on the way 98 successful ascent. Ten years later in 2006, 11 people died on the way to 400 people reached the summit. Over the past 56 years, the overall mortality rate is 9%, while the 2004 has been reduced to 4.4%.
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