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Glacier melt on Everest exposes the bodies of dead climbers

MarieLaveau

Posted 7:15 pm, 03/21/2019

If'in climbing Everest, always remember to carry along a couple bags of ice melt.. Before you succumb to your last breath or step, tear open da bags.. Sherpa will find you much sooner...

sparkling water

Posted 5:07 pm, 03/21/2019

If the melt exposes a frozen TRex, Ill be concerned.

Hillary is a murderer

Posted 5:01 pm, 03/21/2019

I think we should park ALGORE's private jet on the mountain and create some real global warming. Then we can recover more bodies.

sparkling water

Posted 4:45 pm, 03/21/2019

Seems like a good thing to me. They didn’t belong up there.

So, sometime in the past century some folk died on Everest.
When they died, their bodies were on top of the snow and ice.
Then it snowed some more and buried the poor souls.
Then the ice melted, exposing the bodies.
Seems to me that the ice levels are right where they were to start with.

Support Global Warming.

hangsleft

Posted 4:13 pm, 03/21/2019

Wait, sparky will say finding dead bodies is a good thing.

smonk

Posted 3:19 pm, 03/21/2019

Mount Everest expedition operators are finding increasing numbers of climbers' dead bodies on the world's highest peak as high temperatures melt glaciers and snow.

More than 200 mountaineers have died on the peak since 1922, when the first climbers' deaths on Everest were recorded. The majority of bodies are believed to have remained buried under glaciers or snow.

"Due to the impact of climate change and global warming, snow and glaciers are fast melting and dead bodies are increasingly being exposed and discovered by climbers," Ang Tshering Sherpa, former president of Nepal Mountaineering Association, told CNN.

"Since 2008 my own company has brought down seven dead bodies of some mountaineers, some dating back to a British expedition in the 1970s."

'It's getting worse'

Studies suggest that glaciers in the Everest region are melting and thinning.

Sobit Kunwar, an official of Nepal National Mountain Guides Association, told CNN: "It's a very serious issue because it's increasingly common and affects our operations.

"We are really concerned about this because it's getting worse," he added. "We are trying to spread information about it so that there can be a coordinated way to deal with it."
The association's treasurer, Tenzeeng Sherpa, said that climate change is affecting Nepal rapidly, saying that in parts glaciers are melting by a meter every year.

https://www.cnn.com/...index.html
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