For a mountaineer, climbing Mt. Everest is the pinnacle of the sport in more ways than one. It is known to be dangerous, but the challenge is something that so many individuals feel that they have to tackle.
Of course, people know their way up the mountain, as it has been conquered on numerous occasions, but there are literally a few helping hands along the way to help you to keep on the correct path. So, what are these helping hands? Well, they are the corpses of some of the climbers that died on the mountain.
Over the years, hundreds of individuals have perished on Everest in a variety of ways, and not every corpse is able to then be brought down and given a proper burial. Instead, they are left there, and some of them are now used as markers to guide people up the mountain. It makes the mind boggle when you think of trying to describe the directions to someone there for the first time. ‘So, you take a left past the skeleton guy with the black hat.’