19 Yr Old RYAN MITCHELL Everest Summit Day Encounters #shorts

Phurba said "d*ad body ahead" - RYAN Mitchell recounts his encounters with like-minded individuals that lost their lives on Everest in 2024.

[mjwbulich]

Dying on the side of the trail is the least common way to die on Everest. The vast majority fall or die in avalanches/ice falls. Most of those people are never seen again. They fall into a crevasse or somewhere inaccessible. The next most common way is to succumb to altitude sickness in camp. Lots of folks just fall asleep and never wake up.

Quick edit since, for some reason, this got an insane amount of likes. Many of the bodies thought to be lost forever have been discovered recently because of melting glaciers. Tibet has been making a big push over the last several years to clean up the mountain. They have recovered bodies of people who died many decades ago.

One more edit since there is a lot of arguing in the comments. They can absolutely bring down bodies from the mountain. It's just a matter of money. The going rate is from $ 50k - $90k. It's a huge pain in the ass. They have to chip the body out of the ice. It will be frozen solid in whatever position it fell. An average size body will weigh about 135 kg or 300 freedom units. It takes a team of 5-7 Sherpa. They haul the body down to the altitude helicopters can safely operate, around 6400 meters or 20, 000 ft. Nepal and Tibet are both engaged in efforts to clean up the mountain. In 2024, Napal removed four bodies from above the death zone(8000 meters or around 26, 000 ft).

[SavXO]

I saw my dad’s dead body 6 weeks ago. He died from cancer. It’s easily been the hardest thing I’ve ever gone through. When I first saw him I couldn’t feel him there at all. Just his body but no one was there. It was an awful feeling and confusing. Because although you’re looking at them, you can’t feel their consciousness at all. I remember thinking I wish I could still feel you here. I hugged and kissed him, he was very cold to touch. I miss him so much. I feel his presence most nights when I’m going to sleep. Something I never believed in until now. He’s still here, in another form.

[sanjuansteve]

I saw my 1st dead body in 1999 in Izmit, Turkey, 3-4 days after the earthquake that killed 30k people. The person was squashed to death still in their bed. I, as the only outsider, naturally volunteered to be the one to enter a bodily fluid soaked cavity next to the body and spend an hour or 2 cutting furniture to free the body to be removed completely intact and with 100% respect in 36 C+ temperatures.

[Menma-Abyss]

The fact that seeing a dead body can be so wildly different depending on context. How much you see, where you see it, if you knew them, how they died. In the end it's a dead person but it's wild how different you can feel.

First and only time I saw a dead body was my dad's. He died about 4-7 minutes before I got there. He was sick. It was weird. At the time I knew head dead but he also felt so much like he wasn't a human on that bed. Some denial on me told me hes a statue. A very sweaty and wet one, but cold and pale just like one.

[eddierae]

Dead body ahead, and this could be you, i am that body . Don't be complacent.

[Lybargerb]

That is the definition of hell, falling short of a life long dream only to die so close and for eternity laying there as everyone else achieves your dreams

[jgdrumer]

Will be 30 this year, have somehow been on earth this long and never seen a dead body once. These comments really opened my mind a lot, thank you everyone for sharing.

[Stuffyim]

First time I saw a dead body was at 15, my dad had hung himself in our backyard and I was the one to find him
I was lucky bc there were no visible abnormalities that would indicate that he's dead, not just sleeping. But it was still horrifying seeing his shadow in the garden at night. I instantly knew what had happened

[bobaddair]

Being a nurse Ive been with many people at their last moments and even my mother, grandmother and grandfather. Most of the time they leave consciousness about 5-10 minutes before death.
Truly believe that it’s not over when we die.
I’m a Christian and waiting for my day in heaven. ✝️

[galvendorondo]

I grew up extremely edgy, watched gore videos for fun and was not new to gruesome deaths.

Then years later, the first time I saw a dead body was a person lying on a train track, cut in half. It broke me. I bawled my eyes out in the middle of the train and had a panic attack worse than I ever did.

It doesn’t even have to be someone you know, or close to you: watching death up close is extremely, extremely different than watching it through a screen. Stay safe everyone.

[burritobowl]

Will never understand people that do this

[jenniferw]

Its sad that its very difficult to get to Everest- the death zone. This is why a lot of bodies remain there, where they died. Maybe someday there can be a cleanup expedition.

[RefreshedandFruity]

I highly recommend the documentary The Summit. Its hard to get hold of. Great, hard hitting watch about a bunch of climbers who died on everest. It has interviews with their loved ones. It's devastating.

[CancusTreff]

I've heard before that they use the bodies as guides. It's pretty morbid.

[Ireallydontknowanything]

The most traumatic dead body I witnessed was my little 1 year old brother, who was accidentally backed over by his mother (my stepmom) in our home driveway. It was a horrible sight, and a lot of our neighbors were traumatized by it, too. I was the only person to not react, and I will always remember our neighbor who was a teenager at the time trying to shield me away from that sight. I will also always remember how much I was focusing on his face and how beautiful it was.

[blubrd]

I saw my first dead body when I was five. Nobody prepared me for it, nobody helped me afterwards. Now I see dead bodies every day.

[Halo_MayZ]

I remember as a kid going to funerals and yes, I felt sad, but they didn’t really affect me. But 2 years ago when my dad had passed away from a heart attack, I remember getting to the hospital and he had already passed away at this point. I remember the feeling of like sad and confusion and anger, but I think the most that had the effect on me was not feeling him there. Because when you see people you get a feeling of them being there you get like an essence of them. but I remember looking at him and not feeling anything. He was cold and pale. But like that feeling I had through my entire life of this is my dad wasn’t there. I feel like that’s the most part of it all when you see someone who has passed away. is that feeling of them being there is gone. That their body isn’t them in a way. It’s so weird to explain unless you have witnessed it or been around death that way. I feel like that is the same for people on the mountain. They are still people who dies but you get a feeling of there not there anymore even if there bodies are. My heart does go out to the people who lost their lives on the mountain. I do hope their souls found peace wherever they are.

[Travel_w_Bubba]

Everest is no joke - they made summit on a very nice day, minutes later the tide can turn and that beautiful day can become deadly. much respect for those who work hard to make it to the summit… and to those who fell short. RIP

[zachz]

I saw a dead homeless man on a trip to San Francisco with my parents when I was about 16, it was sad but it didn't honestly have a huge effect on me. I just wondered where he came from, how he got there and said a quick little I am sorry to him in my head. Then when I was about 20 I saw a dead Afghan army soldier when I was in Afghanistan, that DID have an effect on me and a big one. It is 1000% percent different when you share the danger. I went from a gung ho kid ready to smash on the Taliban to the beginnings of a Man, like holy fking sh!t I could really get fkd up here, this is not a game get your sh!t together. I imagine the mountain felt similar

[bobjones]

8 people have already died this year on Everest. this year, all 6 months of it.

18 people last year