Nearly 200 Dead Bodies On Mount Everest

[claws]

Not really weird news but tragic and still kind of, well, strange.

Sometimes climbers stumble upon men and women who are dying on the mountain but have no way of helping them and so they must leave them to die.

If pictures of frozen corpses upsets you, don't click.
Images and article here (buzzfeed.com)

[indianasmith]

Wow.  That is a very sad read.  One more reason never to try climbing the bloody thing!

[bob]

 

[Flangepart]

Oh, Lord.
And they get used as way point, directional markers...