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     The Mountain of Corpses

As of 2011, Mount Everest has claimed the lives of over 200 mountaineers. At the heights on which they have disappeared, around 25 000 feet or higher, climate is extremely harsh and oxygen is constantly running low. Mountain climbers who―in a struggle for reaching the top―hurt themselves, break their bones, get sick or encounter problems of other kinds have no possibility of getting down the mountain on their own. Due to the extreme conditions of these heights, rescue operations are rendered principally impossible. This is resulting in an abundance of abandoned but astonishingly well-preserved human bodies scattered alongside the mountain, frozen stuck in their final snow-ridden resting places.