Comments by "SmallSpoonBrigade" (@SmallSpoonBrigade) on "The Tragic Story Of The Frozen Man On Top Of Mount Everest" video.

  1.  @Itried20takennames  That's probably why. Getting people bodies off the mountain requires that somebody physically drag the body down the mountain. There's only a handful of helicopters that can get anywhere near the altitude of the top bits of the mountain and trying to deal with the various weird drafts is tough even with lower elevations. One of the risks these folks take when going for the summit is that they'll get in trouble with nobody able to provide the necessary help. It's probably only somewhat better than having a mishap while spelunking.
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  2. That's a solid point. I'm able to hold my breathe for several minutes at sea level, but there's no way on earth that I'd even consider trying to summit Everest without oxygen. The radio is a bit more understandable as the ability to get help at that altitude is pretty limited. Although, there again, it really depends where you are on the mountain when you do run into trouble. During a white out, you might only be a couple dozen feet from other climbers and uninjured and a radio would be a literal life saver in that case. You might also run into trouble when you're closer to the base camp and somebody could mount a rescue operation with relatively low risk.
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  3. What do you mean? Most people who attempt to climb it survive, although a bunch have to turn back before hitting the top. I think that if more people were being killed that it would be more of an issue. I remember summiting one of the local mountains when I was younger. It was not guaranteed, we went the weekend that had the best history of success, but we barely made it to the top in whiteout conditions. Got a garbage view at the top, but we got some amazing views along the way. There's just something like climbing high things that is in the human genome ever since we evolved from apes.
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  4. Because it's dangerous and because it's there.
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