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irrelephant posted:I followed that Everest...est...est thread and watched tons of the documentaries, films, etc, none of which mentioned any pulverized corpses as far as I can remember The ones that get preserved (at least to an extent) are the ones that die high up on the ridges -- but there are still scavengers, and sometimes they and the elements will work together to reduce corpses left in certain conditions. (For instance, I think there's one corpse high on the route which is legs-only at this point, if it hasn't disappeared entirely.) The ones that stay forever tend to be the ones that are partially sheltered and/or frozen into the mountainside in the lee of the wind. The pulverization happens if you happen to die in the Khumbu Icefall. It's a frozen waterfall consisting of building-sized seracs slowly moving down the mountain, and every so often someone falls into a crevasse there and dies. If that happens, the shifting ice could easily grind your corpse into pulp before taking your remains down the mountain.
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