"DEATH ZONE and Other Stories" is an eclectic anthology of fiction and nonfiction by Mitch Lavender.
They call this area The Death Zone, between 26,000 feet and the summit. At this altitude, your body does not function properly. Stay here long enough and it will just give up and die, even if the hostile elements don't get you.There is another reason they call it The Death Zone - if you die on the mountain, this is where it usually happens. You die trying to get to the summit, or trying to get back down. And when someone dies in The Death Zone, they leave them there. Even if the body is discovered, they leave them.