If a person can get up there and down there, then getting a body out is not impossible.
Difficult, maybe.
I got sick just hiking/scrambling to Mt Whitney. 
Wasn’t too bad, just harfed and had to take a nap.
Yeah. Look, wanna climb it? Good on ya. More $$ for sherpas and the Economy of Nepal. But everything has to come off the Mountain or don’t go. O2 bottles, bodies, etc.
Too hard? Then- don’t go.
Yeah, I barfed on my way to the summit on Mt. Whitney, too.
I remember from Into Thin Air, what was the cost? I remember the license just to climb above base camp was maybe $60,000? And that was way back in 1995. For just the license. Then there’s the cost of all the gear, and then paying the Sherpas to haul your gear to base camp and also to stage your gear above at the four camps. And the cost of travel to Kathmandu, and the cost of all the training beforehand.
Just a swag, but in today’s dollars that could be approaching a quarter million dollars.
(Secret Handshake) 
Say what?
No, it’s definitely not quite that expensive yet. The permit is $11K from Nepal and $7K from Tibet. Adding in the rest, it’s probably $40-80K for most people. You also have to factor in being away from work for 2-3 months and all the training costs.
Getting up there and down there is difficult.
Getting up there and down there while carrying a frozen mummy is damn foolhardy at best, and more likely to result in there now being two frozen mummies on the mountain to be picked up.
There’s a reason the more famous Everest bodies tend to sit there until they either fall/get pushed off a ledge, or are buried by snow and ice.
They have carried ill people down.
Now you can say that a DB is not worth the trouble. Fine.
In that case, then- do not go up the mountain.
After watching “14 peaks” I have a dim view of western “mountain climbers”.
It is more than telling that the “traffic jam” photos were published by one of them (one of the sherpas not working for the tourists). Somehow the instagram climbers all made photos without the queue.
The secret handshake was for me…unless you also got sick on Mt. Whitney?
I’d vote for the helicopter option with a thermos of hot chocolate.
I can almost understand the challenge of being the first person to do it. Maybe. But there is nothing pleasant about the experience. The best you can hope for is a nice view of mountains with snow on them. BFD. I don’t see masochism as much of an accomplishment.
Maybe Musk can set up rides in one of his booster rockets that land and take off from the summit. And a luge you can slide all the way down on. That would be fun…
Oh. Nope.
I always wanted to be like Howard Hughes and spend a ton of money to make a helicopter/hybrid that can land and take off from the summit. Just because. I could have fun rescuing trapped climbers and carting trash off as a bonus.
But a luge run! I’m in.
I see people climbing walls at the gym, too. They must be real masochists, as there isn’t even a beautiful mountain around.
It was not hard to find official photos of a test pilot landing on the summit of Everest:
https://web.archive.org/web/20120205102005/http://www.eurocopter.com/everest/
He did it more than once, and rescued some climbers, too.
that would be true if they were oxygen starved and frozen in the process. Otherwise I’d call it entertainment infused exercise which would would be a health related activity.
Climb Everest in the new climbing suit! You can even watch Netflix while waiting in the summit queue.
You can tell it’s a joke article because of the 720p comment. That and the incredibly low price. $12K?? More like 500K, maybe a cool million, if it could actually do what it says.
Though I like the idea. A suit like that, if it worked, would have many more uses than letting pasty middle age guys climb mountains.
Here would be my reaction to nearing the summit, after weeks and tens of thousands of dollars spent, and seeing that Helo land there:
Well… GODDAMMIT!
I’m holding out for the virtual computer game where you get points for each margarita consumed. The more you drink the higher you get.
Another climber has died on Everest. Aged 55.