rapacityinblue:

asokkalypsenow:

YO DO YOU KNOW WHAT REALLY FUCKED UP THING I HAVE JUST LEARNED

okay so apparently when people die on mt everest they just leave the bodies there bc retrieval isnt possible and theres an estimated 200 bodies just like UP there and bc its so cold and oxygenless the bodies are perfectly preserved and people use them AS LANDMARKS most famously this one guy named green boots (so called bc hes wearing green boots and they dont know who he is) oh my god thats so fucked up???? why do people keep climbing this death mountain???? why cant we invent a way to get the bodies down we can go to fucking space but not the top of a mountain apparently???? oh my god????

honestly i went back and forth on whether to address this but here  am. okay so before this goes any further 2 things: 

one: i’m a hobby climber. i’ve never climbed everest and I’m never fucking going to because it is so death mountain 

two: it is incredibly fucked up and i’m not here to debate that it’s just that it’s manifestly MORE FUCKED UP than this post even covers. 

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