He's dead. Nobody survives long without oxygen at the altitudes at which this man disappeared. In addition, when the temperatures turn deadly, as they do quickly on the high and unprotected mountain slopes, shortly after a climber falls asleep without a real campsite to protect him, his body freezes to death.
Many people have died climbing Mount Everest, and because it is hard enough getting a living person back down to some permanent inhabited place, one must assume that the paths to the top are littered with frozen corpses that are simply too difficult to haul down for burial. If so, that mountainside is his permanent resting place.
There has been talk for years about organizing an expedition to remove all the corpses from Everest. However it's not practical; Everest is simply too dangerous a place.
Besides. They died to get there, didn't they? Let them remain by the side of the trail, on the heights of the greatest mountain of the world. I think that's the sort of monument that only a climber of Mount Everest could appreciate.
Many people have died climbing Mount Everest, and because it is hard enough getting a living person back down to some permanent inhabited place, one must assume that the paths to the top are littered with frozen corpses that are simply too difficult to haul down for burial. If so, that mountainside is his permanent resting place.
Arnold Harris
Mount Horeb WI
Arnold Harris
Mount Horeb WI