Death and unconventional burial on the mountain
March 1 2018 By Abiodun Giwa
Some climbers on Mount Everest
Faith and religion are two inseparable entities despite their close relationship, because religion adherents are expected to be faithful and those lacking required faith don't belong.
It isn't that people of faith, in and outside religion, don't suffer wrong or experience tough and troubled times. It is that the faith strengthens and enables the faithfuls stand without faltering.
The difficulties it entail to climb a mountain will not pose unconquerable challenge to the faithful, unlike the impossibility that an unfaithful will see before him or her. Humans face mountainous challenges everyday requiring unwavering faith to scale, with some lingering in the determination to climb the mountain and others easily give up.
Some people die in efforts to climb the mountain or after they have climbed the mountain and are descending from the mountain, while there are others who will not go near the mountain the moment they hear about people losing their lives in efforts to climb or after they have reached the summit and are coming down.
Therefore, faith is not about religious people in a place of worship. Faith can reference people working to achieve an important objective without failing, even when death stares them on the face. And it is a fact of life that some people have actually died climbing the mountain and no one can trace their remains on the mountain.
It is possible to recommend here to the public that anyone who may have a missing person and the search has not being fruitful, to continue the search to the Mountain Everest or any mountain they know people visit as tourists or climbers. News reports say the Everest mountain has become a burial ground for many faithful climbers. This information can also be passed to the police. For prove, read the Grave yard in the clouds, written by Rachel Nuwer, published by the BBC.
It is doubtful if anyone or police officer who has read the piece in the BBC about some unfortunate how people climbers of the Everest, have died are buried in the mountain's cliffs will want to climb the same mountain in search of any missing person. But unwavering faith can be the magic anyone need to embark on such a mission, knowing fully well that one may go and not return.
"It is a matter of faith that compels me to climb a mountain," Sunny Ade, the Nigerian super star sings in the Yoruba language, in one of his recordings. Many people are still drawn to climbing mountains around the world in search of spiritual fulfillment, believing that God can be accessed on mountains, because the mountain summits are closer to the sky.
There is nothing faith cannot achieve. Research shows that it is not just the report in the BBC that has revealed the case of missing climbers on Everest. There have been reported court cases concerning families that have sued tour companies for the death or the disappearance of their loved ones on the Everest.
In 2006, Michael Matthews is reported as one of the fortunate people to reach the summit of the Everest, but disappeared on his way down. His family sued the tour company for negligence. The adjudicating judge said it was a terrible accident, but the law should not inhibit adventure. Of course, no inhibits life.As we say in modern day, adventure is also life or part of life.
In another case, 61 years old Donald McGrath fell to his death on decent from the summit of Snowdown, in another experience of mountaineering without return, after a fall from more than 600 feet. Coroner David Pritchard-Jones returned a verdict of accidental death.
More than 200 people have died on Mount Everest end their lives ended there without possibility of their families retrieving their bodies for burial, because no one can climb and bring such bodies down. Bodies find their own graves and are buried without any human assistance in the cliffs and snow deeps, where no one can access. Wees and poos also to constitute health hazard on the Everest..
Despite the story of death and the danger inherent climbing the mountains and the health hazard, people still go climbing the Everest in large numbers every year without faltering.
It isn't that people of faith, in and outside religion, don't suffer wrong or experience tough and troubled times. It is that the faith strengthens and enables the faithfuls stand without faltering.
The difficulties it entail to climb a mountain will not pose unconquerable challenge to the faithful, unlike the impossibility that an unfaithful will see before him or her. Humans face mountainous challenges everyday requiring unwavering faith to scale, with some lingering in the determination to climb the mountain and others easily give up.
Some people die in efforts to climb the mountain or after they have climbed the mountain and are descending from the mountain, while there are others who will not go near the mountain the moment they hear about people losing their lives in efforts to climb or after they have reached the summit and are coming down.
Therefore, faith is not about religious people in a place of worship. Faith can reference people working to achieve an important objective without failing, even when death stares them on the face. And it is a fact of life that some people have actually died climbing the mountain and no one can trace their remains on the mountain.
It is possible to recommend here to the public that anyone who may have a missing person and the search has not being fruitful, to continue the search to the Mountain Everest or any mountain they know people visit as tourists or climbers. News reports say the Everest mountain has become a burial ground for many faithful climbers. This information can also be passed to the police. For prove, read the Grave yard in the clouds, written by Rachel Nuwer, published by the BBC.
It is doubtful if anyone or police officer who has read the piece in the BBC about some unfortunate how people climbers of the Everest, have died are buried in the mountain's cliffs will want to climb the same mountain in search of any missing person. But unwavering faith can be the magic anyone need to embark on such a mission, knowing fully well that one may go and not return.
"It is a matter of faith that compels me to climb a mountain," Sunny Ade, the Nigerian super star sings in the Yoruba language, in one of his recordings. Many people are still drawn to climbing mountains around the world in search of spiritual fulfillment, believing that God can be accessed on mountains, because the mountain summits are closer to the sky.
There is nothing faith cannot achieve. Research shows that it is not just the report in the BBC that has revealed the case of missing climbers on Everest. There have been reported court cases concerning families that have sued tour companies for the death or the disappearance of their loved ones on the Everest.
In 2006, Michael Matthews is reported as one of the fortunate people to reach the summit of the Everest, but disappeared on his way down. His family sued the tour company for negligence. The adjudicating judge said it was a terrible accident, but the law should not inhibit adventure. Of course, no inhibits life.As we say in modern day, adventure is also life or part of life.
In another case, 61 years old Donald McGrath fell to his death on decent from the summit of Snowdown, in another experience of mountaineering without return, after a fall from more than 600 feet. Coroner David Pritchard-Jones returned a verdict of accidental death.
More than 200 people have died on Mount Everest end their lives ended there without possibility of their families retrieving their bodies for burial, because no one can climb and bring such bodies down. Bodies find their own graves and are buried without any human assistance in the cliffs and snow deeps, where no one can access. Wees and poos also to constitute health hazard on the Everest..
Despite the story of death and the danger inherent climbing the mountains and the health hazard, people still go climbing the Everest in large numbers every year without faltering.
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