Fun fact: Wikipedia has a detailed list of every single person that died on Mount Everest

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“Fun” fact: chainsaws (not a forestry chainsaw, think more of those portable survival chain saws) were invented by an obstetrician to more quickly separate the pelvis for difficult childbirth.

Also consider: electricity, germ theory and anaesthetics were not developed at this point.

We still use manual driven chain saws in orthopedics surgeries.

Is that the osteotome, or is there a newer name?

Na na... The osteotome is a blade(if you want to call it that) with cutting surface on both sides. It is the bone saw

Osteotome

Bone saw

Apparently Google says both of them of as osteotome, but my medical books never referred to them as such... So who knows

Both terrifying in different ways.

Do they ever retrieve the bodies or there is some place where they tend to accumulate, like a gigantic human plinko?

  1. make it a meme using this template:

  2. post it on distressingmemes

  3. bask in your glory

Maybe i lack an adventurous spirit but if someone told me they climbed Mount Everest, I just think their privilege is showing and apparently are the type to invent problems that don't need solving.

There are many things I can get a kick out of and have played with in my mind, like seafaring. But climbing a damn rock, which just gets colder while it's getting harder to breathe? No, thank you.

I like to call a singular piece of trivia a trivion.