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hermitcrab 16 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: They used Xenon to climb Everest in days – is it t...

"The percentage of deaths to successful attempts is around 4%."

4% chance of death sounds very high to me.

lesuorac 15 days ago [–]

I mean, pick a dangerous surgery with a high death %. It's still safe to be the surgeon in that case.

The people dieing are by far the sherpas which you aren't one of.

hermitcrab 15 days ago | [–]

>The people dieing are by far the sherpas

Not according to this graph:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_who_died_climbi...

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