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That link is utterly grim.
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Sounds quite J. G. Ballard
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https://twitter.com/shriyask?lang=en
She reached the summit in 2012 and became the landmark corpse in your link. The Canadian flag. It turned out she'd had very limited climbing experience and had previously been hospitalised after going on hunger strike for lower motor insurance premiums. A disgraceful documentary/hagiography about her tried to blame the sherpas for what happened.
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Another internet opportunity to pitch my Mt. Everest zombie movie.
Since it is almost impossible to carry a dead person down the mountain there is currently a considerable number of frozen alpha males up there*. My movie starts with a group of these muppets aspiring to climb the mountain, but soon shifts to a group of Western hippie types elsewhere in the Himalayas, white kids with dreadlocks basically. The hippies start doing some supposedly healing shamanistic rituals, but these rituals backfire and instead the frozen climbers on the mountain come to life as zombies. Unlike other zombie movies, these creatures can still speak a little, stuttering inane phrases of motivational jargon as they stagger down the mountain and engulf the various basecamps.
*' Link to some very grotty pictures. Don't click on it with kids around etc.