[HOLY S**T!] Dead bodies stay on Mt Everest

[WheelofConquer]

About 26,000 ft and above, it's almost impossible to bring down a dead body, helicopters can't go up that high and the oxygen is so low that a person needs all their energy just to slowly move their own weight. Any attempt at rescue can make you another corpse as well.

This is crazy, some of these folks have been dead for decades and look like they are sleeping.

[WheelofConquer]

This was a woman, her husband died too but no one has found him, he was trying to rescue her.





This guy died while someone tried to rescue him, he just hangs there eternally now.



This is a trip.

[Mike D]

Yeah I heard about this. Eerie.

And I'd imagine with the temps up there that those corpses would stay extremely well preserved.

[Dixie Normis]

About 26,000 ft and above, it's almost impossible to bring down a dead body, helicopters can't go up that high and the oxygen is so low that a person needs all their energy just to slowly move their own weight. Any attempt at rescue can make you another corpse as well.

This is crazy, some of these folks have been dead for decades and look like they are sleeping.

I was actually checking this out last week on Listverse or something. Pretty creepy ****.

[WheelofConquer]

Bodies everywhere, they should call this haunted mountain.

[Mike D]

Not to derail, but this forest in Japan has a similar thing going on. Not exactly the same though as the corpses here committed suicide, but still. A forest littered with corpses. Freaky ****, bruh.






You get the picture.

The forest is a popular place for suicides, reportedly the most popular in Japan. Statistics vary, but what is documented is that during the period leading up to 1988, about 100 suicides occurred there every year.

In 2002, 78 bodies were found in the forest, exceeding the previous record of 74 in 1998. In 2003, the rate climbed to 100, and in recent years, the local government has stopped publicizing the numbers in an attempt to downplay Aokigahara's association with suicide. In 2004, 108 people killed themselves in the forest. In 2010, 247 people attempted suicide in the forest, 54 of whom completed the act. Suicides are said to increase during March, the end of the fiscal year in Japan. As of 2011, the most common means of suicide in the forest were hanging and drug overdoses.

The high rate of suicide has led officials to place signs in the forest, in Japanese and English, urging suicidal visitors to seek help and not kill themselves. Annual body searches have been conducted by police, volunteers, and attendant journalists since 1970.

The site's popularity has been attributed to the 1960 novel Kuroi Jukai (Black Sea of Trees) by Seich***333; Matsumoto. However, the history of suicide in Aokigahara predates the novel's publication, and the place has long been associated with death: ubasute may have been practiced there into the nineteenth century, and the forest is reputedly haunted by the Y***363;rei (angry spirits) of those left to die.

So who wants to go camping?

[WheelofConquer]

Heard about that forest thing, never saw photos though.

[Weebler I]

I think this guy may have been the first to summit Everest.

[Panopticon]

I was actually checking this out last week on Listverse or something. Pretty creepy ****.

This guy(David Sharp) died(2006) next to the "green boots" corpse in the first picture. I believe this is real footage. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8eW6ifxuVFY

Edit: Meant to quote WheelofConcuer

[SlySlickSmooth]

Just wait for a huge earthquake to strike the area and have those bodies tumble down onto some poor hermit's cabin living in the mountains.