Are there just mountains of dead penguin bodies perfectly preserved under snow and ice surrounding their breeding ground? Like a fortress of the frozen dead?

My BURNING QUESTION is:
What happens to their penguin bodies?

Nothing decomposes in Antarctica. They’re too far inland for scavengers. The ice will never melt to cast their bodies to the sea.

The breeding ground is chosen because it’s far inland, away from predators, on ice that is too thick to melt.

In the harsh Antarctic winters, the males huddle together with their eggs while the females walk back to the ocean to feed

Inevitably, older males will just fall asleep and die.

I second this.
But then I’ll be penciling and my comic script says “draw a pair of legs walking”
And I want to die.