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Post by OldGit on Mar 11, 2005 13:21:51 GMT 1
Just reading "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer, fascinating insight into a disastrous series of expeditions to Everest in May 1996, culminating in a number of completely avoidable deaths. You wouldn't think that a virtual "traffic jam" of climbers could take place at 29,000 feet would you? Highly recommended, especially if "Touching the Void" is your type of book BTW, isn't the human body an amazing thing? Hard to understand that you can "acclimatize" to being able to survive at 29,000 feet without bottled oxygen.
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Post by mike-in-cairo on Mar 11, 2005 14:20:48 GMT 1
which is the book with lots of pictures of all the frozen dead bodies up there? frozen in time and no-one can get to them.
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Post by OldGit on Mar 11, 2005 15:52:54 GMT 1
Doesn't ring any bells I'm afraid. Mind you, anyone who dies up there is going to be stuck there. Sadly there's no way to reach them - too high for a chopper, and a bit too small a runway for a C130!
I did wonder if it would be possible to use some kind of helium filled device to get up there? If you had a team route a cable up to the summit, and then had a tethered airship ascend the cable, it might work, but it would be a hugely expensive way to collect frozen bodies and empty oxygen cylinders.
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Post by Slackbladder on Mar 11, 2005 20:46:48 GMT 1
I read this a while ago. Not many books can be described as jaw-dropping but some of the things I read in this certainly made me think. Great book, superbly written.
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