hopalong Posted June 4, 2004 Share Posted June 4, 2004 What mountain has claimed the most lives? 1) Raw # 2) Ratio 3) World 4) U.S. 5) Northwest (including B.C., Yukon, Alaska) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ivan Posted June 4, 2004 Share Posted June 4, 2004 vesuvius and krakatoa both took out a shit-load of faqhers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sobo Posted June 4, 2004 Share Posted June 4, 2004 A research paper or morbid curiosity? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sobo Posted June 4, 2004 Share Posted June 4, 2004 vesuvius and krakatoa both took out a shit-load of faqhers  Classic, ivan! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hopalong Posted June 4, 2004 Author Share Posted June 4, 2004 Morbid Curiosity Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cracked Posted June 4, 2004 Share Posted June 4, 2004 Pompeii is a creepy place. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hopalong Posted June 4, 2004 Author Share Posted June 4, 2004 Numbers Man Numbers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ivan Posted June 4, 2004 Share Posted June 4, 2004 http://volcano.und.nodak.edu/vwdocs/frequent_questions/grp7/asia/question879.html  more than 36,000 killed by krakatoa...top that everest. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dru Posted June 4, 2004 Share Posted June 4, 2004 da toofwand Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chelle Posted June 4, 2004 Share Posted June 4, 2004 18,000 + were killed in the town of Yungay when Huascarun droped a few tons of granite and ice in a lake after an earthquake and caused an alluvion to flow down and bury the town. The estimated size of the debris was seventy-five million cubic meters. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dru Posted June 4, 2004 Share Posted June 4, 2004 You can also figure out how many cats would be killed by dividing by nine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drederek Posted June 4, 2004 Share Posted June 4, 2004 Mountin the ladies has done in more poor souls I'll wager Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wally Posted June 5, 2004 Share Posted June 5, 2004 Only eight people in the world survived back in Noahs day on mt ararat in turkey, everyone else drowned. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sobo Posted June 5, 2004 Share Posted June 5, 2004 Ah, but was it the mountain that killed them, or saved them? Read the original question... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hopalong Posted June 5, 2004 Author Share Posted June 5, 2004 F$*%&^& Hell.... I'm sorry, I ment climbing related. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blake Posted June 6, 2004 Share Posted June 6, 2004 i think annapurna has seen 1 fatality for each two successful summit reachers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chelle Posted June 6, 2004 Share Posted June 6, 2004 Hasn't K2 claimed a lot of lives to summits too? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drederek Posted June 6, 2004 Share Posted June 6, 2004 Especially women Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
klenke Posted June 6, 2004 Share Posted June 6, 2004 Hasn't K2 claimed a lot of lives to summits too? I like the new avatar name. It threw me for a loop last night while deleting some private messages ("who is chelle?).  There was an Everest site that provided data for # of deaths on the 8,000m peaks: Data for Everest Data for all 8000m peaks  Some specifics: Annapurna has the highest death per successful ascent ratio: 41% (130 successful, 53 deaths). The page doesn't give data on the number of people who don't succeed AND don't die. If this number is, say, 10 times the number that summit, then the percentage of deaths per attempt would be something like 4%, meaning 4 out of every 100 climbers you might see at a basecamp will die. Nanga Parbat is 2nd at 216 summiters, 61 deaths (28% deaths/summits) K2 is 3rd at 198 summiters, 53 deaths (27%).  The 8000m peak with the most deaths is Everest at 179. This is not surprising given the draw of the peak. The deaths/summits rate is only 9% though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
griz Posted June 6, 2004 Share Posted June 6, 2004 Being a climber from japan or korea increases your chances of dying by about 200%. I'm joking about the % but climbers from those countries know how to die up high, for sure. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sobo Posted June 8, 2004 Share Posted June 8, 2004 From what I've been able to glean from what I've read on the subject, I think it has something to do with the honor of success, shame in retreat, and mebbe even Bushido or something like that. Â Of all the things I've read about people failing to summit on big mountains, the thing that struck me as quite odd was the "fact" that a lot of "Far Easterners" (Japanese, Koreans, Taiwanese, Chinese, etc.) do not stop to help their failing climbing companions, but rather just leave them where they drop and carry on themselves towards the summit. Â What struck me as the absolute oddest thing was that on the way back down, the "successful summiteers" didn't usually stop to pick up and help the people they left behind on the way up. Â Every man/woman for him/herself, I guess. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MysticNacho Posted June 8, 2004 Share Posted June 8, 2004 Mount Rainier or Hood probably has the highest numbers, but low ratio's. Â Baring has a bad rep, don't know about numbers though. Â How many died at the base of Slesse? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wally Posted June 9, 2004 Share Posted June 9, 2004 88+ people have died on the slopes of rainier since its recorded history Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EWolfe Posted June 9, 2004 Share Posted June 9, 2004 Frozen Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dru Posted June 9, 2004 Share Posted June 9, 2004 I racked up over 20 lives playing the Trogdor game once... Â Then those frickin Knights got me! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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