I don’t mean to make light of your concerns, and this is bound to offend someone’s sensibilities, for which I apologize in advance, but…<br><br>As far as the bodies- those in the death zone would seem likely to remain frozen for a very long time, so long as they remain there. In general, a corpse is in no hurry…<br><br>Wouldn’t it be hugely ironic if, at some far (or, just possibly, not so far) future time, when technologies we can only see dimly from here have made such things possible, we started bringing back bodies from these mountains, not just to let them rot, but to be revived? After all, those areas might be one of the very few places on Earth to go to get cleanly frozen and intact people from the 20th Century, a time before cryogenics became common. If that ever comes to be, then those who’s bodies were “rescued” to rot here in the lowlands will be long gone, forever and irrevocably, and those left on the mountain will see the future.<br><br>Maybe it’s just possible that we wouldn’t be doing them any favors.<br>_________________<br><br>"... for having a very ardent desire to see and observe the state of America a hundred years hence, I should prefer to an ordinary death, being immersed with a few friends in a cask of Madeira until that time, then to be recalled to life by the solar warmth of my dear country. But... in all probability, we live in a century too little advanced, and too near the infancy of science, to see such an art brought in our time to it's perfection."<br><br>Benjamin Franklin, April, 1773<br>__________________<br><br>As for the living- it seems they’re doing what they’re doing freely and of their own will. As far as I know, tax money is not involved (unlike most waste), so I don’t really see that we or anyone else is in a position to tell them how they should, or should not, be spending their resources and their lives. The fact that we wouldn’t make the same choices, or don’t even understand the reasoning behind them, is irrelevant. That’s freedom. <br>