http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/05/group-plans-unmanned-everest-rescue-helicopter/ Engadget Comments for Group plans unmanned Everest rescue helicopter http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/05/group-plans-unmanned-everest-rescue-helicopter/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/05/group-plans-unmanned-everest-rescue-helicopter/
Though Im sure having your life saved always weighs out a case of the bends, I was just curious.]]>Feb 5th 2007 9:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/05/group-plans-unmanned-everest-rescue-helicopter/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/05/group-plans-unmanned-everest-rescue-helicopter/Feb 5th 2007 10:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/05/group-plans-unmanned-everest-rescue-helicopter/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/05/group-plans-unmanned-everest-rescue-helicopter/Feb 5th 2007 9:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/05/group-plans-unmanned-everest-rescue-helicopter/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/05/group-plans-unmanned-everest-rescue-helicopter/What is better an helicopter or being there for ever?
jjb]]>Mar 29th 2007 6:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/05/group-plans-unmanned-everest-rescue-helicopter/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/05/group-plans-unmanned-everest-rescue-helicopter/Feb 5th 2007 9:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/05/group-plans-unmanned-everest-rescue-helicopter/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/05/group-plans-unmanned-everest-rescue-helicopter/Feb 5th 2007 11:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/05/group-plans-unmanned-everest-rescue-helicopter/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/05/group-plans-unmanned-everest-rescue-helicopter/Feb 5th 2007 9:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/05/group-plans-unmanned-everest-rescue-helicopter/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/05/group-plans-unmanned-everest-rescue-helicopter/
When people start getting HACE or HAPE, they get retreated down the mountain as quickly as possible. Descent is not a problem.

What IS a problem though, is the inate inability for people to use reasoning skills when they are low on Oxygen. Would you want to rope into a helicopter by yourself when you are drunk?

As for dangling like a fishing lure from a helicopter, few things are scarier with a hangover. ]]>Feb 5th 2007 10:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/05/group-plans-unmanned-everest-rescue-helicopter/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/05/group-plans-unmanned-everest-rescue-helicopter/Feb 5th 2007 10:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/05/group-plans-unmanned-everest-rescue-helicopter/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/05/group-plans-unmanned-everest-rescue-helicopter/
In a worse case scenario is it better to die of frost bite and hypoxia or massive trauma from the crash landing of a defective robo-chopper 5000?]]>Feb 5th 2007 11:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/05/group-plans-unmanned-everest-rescue-helicopter/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/05/group-plans-unmanned-everest-rescue-helicopter/]]>Feb 5th 2007 11:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/05/group-plans-unmanned-everest-rescue-helicopter/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/05/group-plans-unmanned-everest-rescue-helicopter/
GO NZ!!!
]]>Feb 5th 2007 11:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/05/group-plans-unmanned-everest-rescue-helicopter/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/05/group-plans-unmanned-everest-rescue-helicopter/Not to denigrate the physical challenge of climbing Everest, but the real magic of climbing isn't represented by the current Everest scene. And this gizmo is just further proof that morons run the universe.]]>Feb 6th 2007 12:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/05/group-plans-unmanned-everest-rescue-helicopter/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/05/group-plans-unmanned-everest-rescue-helicopter/Feb 6th 2007 10:02AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/05/group-plans-unmanned-everest-rescue-helicopter/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/05/group-plans-unmanned-everest-rescue-helicopter/Feb 6th 2007 12:27AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/05/group-plans-unmanned-everest-rescue-helicopter/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/05/group-plans-unmanned-everest-rescue-helicopter/Feb 6th 2007 2:51AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/05/group-plans-unmanned-everest-rescue-helicopter/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/05/group-plans-unmanned-everest-rescue-helicopter/Feb 6th 2007 3:16AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/05/group-plans-unmanned-everest-rescue-helicopter/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/05/group-plans-unmanned-everest-rescue-helicopter/The diesel engine allows it to fly without the use of oxygen, which is very low at those altitudes.
]]>Feb 6th 2007 12:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/05/group-plans-unmanned-everest-rescue-helicopter/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/05/group-plans-unmanned-everest-rescue-helicopter/
while climbing Everest isn't as big of a deal as it used to be, it's still a very dangerous undertaking. Mad respect to the sherpas, without them no one could make it up there.]]>Feb 6th 2007 7:45AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/05/group-plans-unmanned-everest-rescue-helicopter/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/05/group-plans-unmanned-everest-rescue-helicopter/
They're going to have to attach them into a screamer suit or something, or the hypothermia from the built in wind chill of forward movement will kill them, making the rescue more a recovery.
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If a "diesel engine allows it to fly without the use of oxygen", does that mean those huge air filters on diesel trucks are just for show? :)

Seriously, diesel engines combust fuel using oxygen, just as gasoline engines do. The difference is in that they initiate combustion using compression rather than a spark.]]>Feb 6th 2007 1:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/05/group-plans-unmanned-everest-rescue-helicopter/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/05/group-plans-unmanned-everest-rescue-helicopter/
iirc, from the reports on Madan's trips (one each for Weathers and Gau) he had to use ground effect to basically skate up the mountain, up to camp 1. He then spun the helicopter 180 and dropped. They'd load one guy on, Madan would get the weight off of the skids and basically ski down the mountain until he had enough lift to get truely airborn. Very dicey work, and a nice job to save 2 lives.

As far as roping in. Even the simple task of clipping onto a carabiner can be challenging at altitude. Discovery's series had some interesting footage of how hard of a time people were having trying to attach their grigris, even on oxygen.


Climbing is dangerous. Heck, check out the later editions of Krakauers book, and see how many of the professional climbers are dead. It can happen at the top, getting to the summit too late(Scott Fisher), or at the bottom, trying to take a picture of the mountain (Babu Chiri). At the end of the day, the helicopter is going to have little effect in most peoples decision making process on whether to go up.]]>Feb 6th 2007 11:32PM