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Fly-by-night adventure companies are taking up untrained climbers who pose a risk to everyone on the mountain. And the Nepalese government, hungry for every climbing dollar it can get, has issued more permits than Everest can safely handle, some experienced mountaineers say.
Some climbers did not even know how to put on a pair of crampons, clip-on spikes that increase traction on ice, Sherpas said.
Others were simply not fit enough to be on the mountain in the first place.
He (Dohring) even had to step around the body of a woman who had just died.
NEW DELHI —
Climbers were pushing and shoving to take selfies. The flat part of the summit, which he estimated at about the size of two Ping-Pong tables, was packed with 15 or 20 people.
‘It Was Like a Zoo:’ Death on an Unruly, Overcrowded Everest
RSBM We need a separate thread strictly for people who die taking risky selfies.
I do not understand the appeal of climbing Everest it is not something worth risking your life over. I would not do it even if paid any amount. The video of the queue at the top is absolute madness
It looks like the line for a ride at Disneyworld. They should set up a "fastpass" system.
Maybe two lines, depending on one’s vitals?
Even a few kids have climbed. That’s nuts. Talk about child abuse. Iirc, an 11 or 13yo made it a couple years ago.
Maybe his parents used his college fund.
It looks like the line for a ride at Disneyworld. They should set up a "fastpass" system.
Soon people will be pushing their infants and toddlers up Mt. Everest in oversized strollers. Wearing puffy jackets, of course. Because safety.
Mount Everest has become the world's highest rubbish dump with increasing numbers of big-spending climbers turning it into a 'disgusting eyesore', experts claim.
Fluorescent tents, climbing equipment, empty gas canisters and even human excrement litter the well-trodden route to the summit of the 29,029ft (8,848-metre) peak after being dumped by people paying little attention to the environment.
The real problem is the tons and tons of plastics, beer cans, whiskey bottles, steel food containers, and other solid waste the lodge owners import.
The human waste generated each season at the Everest base camp is dumped into pits in seasonal water courses, and this accounts for the large numbers of visitors getting sick.’
The two standard routes, the Northeast Ridge and the Southeast Ridge, are not only dangerously crowded but also disgustingly polluted, with garbage leaking out of the glaciers and pyramids of human excrement befouling the high camps,” mountaineer Mark Jenkins wrote in a 2013 National Geographic article on Everest
Soon people will be pushing their infants and toddlers up Mt. Everest in oversized strollers. Wearing puffy jackets, of course. Because safety.
Maybe it can be made as socially unacceptable as smoking.
The area needs money. So what else can they do? Something must be done for this absurd situation
I feel the same way about marathon runners. Nice for them but who cares!
They throw empty cups of water that they are given along the route. They poop in people’s yards. They do contribute financially for hotels and other tourist things but to me it is very self centered.
Ita.
I think I heard of yet another death on Mt. (Deatherest) Everett. Need to check the news to be sure.
Maybe it can be made as socially unacceptable as smoking.
The area needs money. So what else can they do? Something must be done for this absurd situation
I feel the same way about marathon runners. Nice for them but who cares!
They throw empty cups of water that they are given along the route. They poop in people’s yards. They do contribute financially for hotels and other tourist things but to me it is very self centered.