# Bodies remain on Mount Everest.   Why?

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**Created:** [July 22, 2015, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bodies-remain-on-mount-everest-why/725910 "2015-07-22T23:52:19Z")\
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**Post date:** [June 8, 2016, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bodies-remain-on-mount-everest-why/725910/241 "2016-06-08T03:43:53Z")

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> [@HMS\_Irruncible](#):
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> Who’s going to go fetch them? You? Go right on ahead.

> [@HMS\_Irruncible](#):
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> Back when I was in the Army we’d joke about disposing of the fallen by digging a vertical hole and placing an incendiary grenade on top, because only callow 18-year-old-youths can seriously talk about something so stupid and disgusting and inhumane.

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