Group Plans Unmanned Everest Rescue Helicopter

Now if they were really serious about not having climbers stranded, wouldn't you think they'd invent the "Unmanned climbing party"?

Greg

greg g ..i believe that climbers should always be forced to fund their rescue as the resources used is way out of proportion to only possibility of rescue....maybe a pay as you go system to prevent some of the absolute reckless nature that occurs. Take the recent accident in washington state. experienced climbers and yet they left all their gear behind.......but i like the unmanned team comment.

While I applaud the lofty (pun intended) goal I wonder if Alpine Wasp could be used to retrieve some of the garbage we as a race have left there over the years.

Pepper,

Before we worry about regular "garbage" maybe it could remove some of the dead climbers up there, if someone is willing to pay for it. Its my understanding there are a number of them up there because it is just too difficult to retrieve them.

As to the garbage, its not doing any harm up there compared to the multitude of places we have polluted and are polluting.

Greg

Greg G,

That too is my understanding. Personally I am not so driven to make the climb that I am willing to leaves my carcass up that hill. I have endeavored to leave the many places I have camped, boated etc. cleaner than when I arrived. I presume that if a person has enough money to climb Everest these things are not an overiding concern.

It's intersting that we as a group just had this conversation over the amount of crap we leave in orbit and amazing as to how much garbage we have left in places where it presumebly isn't doing any harm (no jab intended). I 've spent a lot of years cleaning crap from the "multitude of places we have polluted". Still I can't just look at it as making a living.