The Mount Hood Thread

[gunsmith]

mallory-hillary, who can keep up anymore

If they charge the family for the effort then Mexico should subsidize our ER's

[Cosmoline]

Everest isn't in Mexico

[LAK]

..... [Sir Edmund Hillary] said "I think the whole attitude towards climbing Mount Everest has become rather horrifying. The people just want to get to the top, it was wrong if there was a man suffering altitude problems and was huddled under a rock, just to lift your hat, say good morning and pass on by." He also told the New Zealand Herald that he was horrified by the callous attitude of todays climbers. "They dont give a damn for anybody else who may be in distress and it doesnt impress me at all that they leave someone lying under a rock to die.".

I am not surprized at all; a direct reflection of the effects of modern popular culture. Many might accuse someone like Rheinhold Messner of being foolish or obsessed - but I would be very surprized would he to have ever passed up a climber in distress in this way.

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[280plus]

Mallory has been up there since 1924, so how many bodies do we think will have accumulated before the first one(s) finally blow away?

[gunsmith]

anyway, even if Mallory really was the first up on top, wouldn't the film be degraded to the point
of being incapable of being processed by now?

[Gewehr98]

There are pictures of Mallory's body on one website.  The clothing had blown off his back, but the skin looked very well preserved, the whiteness is what had attracted the eyes of the searchers when they were doing the investigation.  He was half-buried in gravel when they found him, so after they did some research, they finished burying him in the gravel.