“In August 1974, an entire team of eight Russian women climbers died high on the mountain in a storm.[15] Elwira Szatajewa maintained radio contact with base camp as her team-mates perished around her. In her final words she said, 'I'm alone now, with just a few minutes left to live. See you in eternity.'[16]”
Everything at that height is deadly and your body let's you know: the air feels like boiling water because it burns your skin and cooks your fingernails from your fingers if you remove your gloves.
Gentle slopes are deadly because once you start sliding and gain a little momentum, they will wear off your clothing, skin, muscle and bones like sandpaper.
The air is so thin that your body can barely sleep or metabolize food, even if you've spent six weeks attempting to acclimatize and allow your body to create more red blood cells.
Cooking is nearly impossible, so most food is eaten frozen. Have you ever eaten frozen bread straight from your freezer? Well, your freezer is warm compared to extreme high altitude climbing: eating bread is like eating ice-cubes.
All of your blood is at your core, attempting to keep your organs alive, which means you can't feel or move your face to speak. Everyone looks like they're wearing science-fiction masks.
If you become too sick to stand, then that's where you'll die because the air is too thin for helicopters to fly. Walking on a flat surface is as exhusting as running up hill or lifting weights because the air is so thin. It's unimaginably impossible to move a body when you've already carrying a rucksack loaded with essential survival gear on your back.
It's likely these stupid bitches were too weak, were carrying too much gear and didn't allow enough time to acclimatize to the altitude: it's common for climbers to reach the Everest summit, turn around and then do it again because they are so fucked-up due to lack of oxygen to the brain that they're unable to understand that they already did it. It's not a place for silly women.
Looked it up. 1974, Lenin Peak, Elvira Shatayeva, Soviet