Originally Posted By: Harvey Lankford


There are even stories on Everest of people going 2 feet outside the tent to relieve themselves, slipping, and dying.



My hiking buddy did Shasta many years ago. He woke up in the morning, starting his trek, and shortly thereafter discovered a body clad only in thermals. The guy had gotten up in the night.....and fell about 1,000 ft.


The body betrays and the weather conspires, hopefully, not on the same day.