In reply to tehmarks:
I don't think you're being overly sensitive, what you or anyone else finds distasteful is a personal thing.
I'm glad that they did that, though; a picture might be worth a thousand words but a picture like that first one, showing the reality of a frozen corpse, slumped and twisted, does hammer home reality in a way that words alone would struggle to do. Pictures (and videos) like these, showing the body being dragged along stiff as a board, a mans wife throwing herself at his body, might make people think twice about Everest. In much the same way that moving pictures have changed our understanding of what war is (or was) and probably dampened people's enthusiasm for it maybe reporting like this, not sensationalist, sombre, showing the human cost, might just start to do the same to the Everest circus. 'Dulce et decorum est' loses its ring when you've seen video of a body rotting in the mud.