Declaring a Climber Dead Estimates suggest that more than 200 corpses remain on Everest, but declaring a climber dead without their body is a complex endeavor.
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Madison Dapcevich,
Outside,
17 Feb. 2026
The photos Petersohn kept in his scrapbook — of piles of emaciated corpses and of a man who died in front of his eyes — show a far darker reality.
This was an adaptation of the 1906 novel about the meatpacking industry by Upton Sinclair; famously, Lookingglass actors hung by their heels, depicting the draining carcasses of the Chicago Stockyards.
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Chris Jones,
Chicago Tribune,
19 Feb. 2026
Jamieson expects other Antarctic sharks live at the same depth, feeding on the carcasses of whales, giant squids and other marine creatures that die and sink to the bottom.
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