Guy skis down Mount Everest- World First
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I've been almost 2/3 (about 20,000 feet) the way up Everest and the dangers get worse the higher you go.
If you hurt yourself, rescue helicopters generally won't risk flying above 20,000 feet because the air is too thin to fly.
Apart from falling into a hidden deep crevasse and being lost forever, the gentle sloping plains are terrifying because they seem harmless and peaceful until you lose traction and slowly start sliding and inevitably fall over.
As you continue to slide, the friction against the ice will slowly wear away your clothing and then your skin, muscle and bones. Death by slow-motion road-rash.
Even amateur mistakes like taking off your glove to operate a camera can end in disaster because the cold will race to your core to prevent getting cold as the muscles in your hand stop working because of the cold. Making it almost impossible to put the glove back on.
Within seconds, the cold will feel like boiling water as your skin is damaged... and within a few minutes, you'll have burnt your fingernails so badly that they'll later fall off.
I saw an amateur do this last time I was at Everest basecamp and I was able to help get his glove back on before he lost fingernails, although his hands were badly burned. In temperatures that low, with wind-chill, you can barely move your face to talk. Like your face becomes a plastic mask.