{"id":3343,"date":"2012-07-18T18:43:49","date_gmt":"2012-07-19T00:43:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asylumeclectica.com\/grim\/?p=3343"},"modified":"2012-07-18T18:43:49","modified_gmt":"2012-07-19T00:43:49","slug":"mfdj071812","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/?p=3343","title":{"rendered":"Morbid Fact Du Jour For July 18, 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Today&#8217;s Shattering Yet Truly Morbid Fact!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In 1984, mountain climbers Dick Bass and David Breashears attempted to summit Mt. Everest with the ill-fated Nepalese Clean-up Expedition.  Team members Yogendra Thapa and Ang Dorje fell from the Southeast Ridge to the South Col.  Sherpas stuffed their frozen bodies into a tent, but eventually the tent came loose and fell another 4,000 feet to the Western Cwm.  Climbing together again in 1985, Breashears found parts of their frozen bodies, which had shattered when they hit the bottom.  He collected what he could and dropped the body parts into a crevasse.<\/p>\n<p>Culled from: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0792269845\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=theasylumeclecti&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=390957&#038;creativeASIN=0792269845\">Everest<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=theasylumeclecti&#038;l=as2&#038;o=1&#038;a=0792269845\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s Shattering Yet Truly Morbid Fact! In 1984, mountain climbers Dick Bass and David Breashears attempted to summit Mt. Everest with the ill-fated Nepalese Clean-up Expedition. Team members Yogendra Thapa and Ang Dorje fell from the Southeast Ridge to the South Col. Sherpas stuffed their frozen bodies into a tent, but eventually the tent came [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-facts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3343\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}