As ice melts, Everest’s ‘death zone’ gives up its ghosts • FRANCE 24 English
in an area referred to as the Death Zone on Mount Everest thinning snow and melting ice has revealed hundreds of bodies of those who came to conquer the illustrious Mountain but never made it home because of the effects of global warming the bodies are becoming more visible as the snow cover thins this trip we brought back 11,000 kg of trash and five bodies Kaki is part of a team scaling the peak over 8,000 met as part of a cleanup campaign they chip away at ice and sometimes use boiling water to rescue bodies and remove garbage from the sacred slopes according to estimates more than 300 people have lost their lives on the mountain since Expeditions began in the 1920s and many bodies still remain swallowed in snow with climate change continuing to melt the ice rescue workers view their job as psychologically significant people believe that they are entering a Divine space when they climb mountains but if they see dead bodies on the way up it can have a negative effect and might hamper their aim we have to bring them back as much as possible and if we keep leaving them behind our Mountains will turn into a graveyard in the future but the rescue missions are controversial in the climbing community they cost thousands of dollars and require eight Rescuers to risk their lives to retrieve each body
On Everest’s sacred slopes, climate change is thinning snow and ice, increasingly exposing the bodies of hundreds of mountaineers who died chasing their dream to summit the world’s highest mountain.
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11 comments
My mountain my country
How did these bodies ever get buried in snow if we have continuous global warming for the last century?
It's time to limit access to this beautiful mountain.
The effects of geoengineered weather warfare . . .
If that mountain is considered “sacred” those bodies would not have piled up. When the route up and down is established by where dead bodies have laid for years….
The presence of trash is inexcusable.
People are so stupid for thinking they're amazing for climbing that tourist trap. It's just an ego trip that risks their lives and other lives, not impressed.
Vertical limit- awesome movie
2% who try , are going to die…
Sad the amount of trash left behind, no respect for the mountain they climbed.
People should be ashamed of themselves, leaving all that garbage behind. It costs a lot of money to climb Everest so these climbers should each be charged for a 'garbage Sherpa', a person who is paid well to pick up their trash since they obviously are not picking it up themselves. It should be mandatory for all or one person paid to pick up the garbage of x people and bring it back down of course.