"Tripping" Over Mt. Everest?

[Tbs77]

 

Mount Everest Is Now So Busy Climbers Are Dying in Traffic Jams

 

Anjali Kulkarni, an Indian mountain climber, trained for six years to make it to the top of Mount Everest, the highest mountain peak in the world. She finally fulfilled her longtime goal when she reached the summit this week. But it was the descent that killed her...

 

https://www.sciencealert.com/mount-everest-is-now-so-busy-climbers-are-dying-in-traffic-jams

 

Another article highlighted there are fights at summit due trying to take selfies:

 

‘It Was Like a Zoo’: Death on an Unruly, Overcrowded Everest

 

NEW DELHI — Ed Dohring, a doctor from Arizona, had dreamed his whole life of reaching the top of Mount Everest. But when he summited a few days ago, he was shocked by what he saw.

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. To get up there, he had to wait hours in a line, chest to chest, one puffy jacket after the next, on an icy, rocky ridge with a several-thousand foot drop.

He even had to step around the body of a woman who had just died...

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/26/world/asia/mount-everest-deaths.html

 

 

 

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[SUNRAY]

11 minutes ago, Tbs77 said:

 

Mount Everest Is Now So Busy Climbers Are Dying in Traffic Jams

 

Anjali Kulkarni, an Indian mountain climber, trained for six years to make it to the top of Mount Everest, the highest mountain peak in the world. She finally fulfilled her longtime goal when she reached the summit this week. But it was the descent that killed her...

 

https://www.sciencealert.com/mount-everest-is-now-so-busy-climbers-are-dying-in-traffic-jams

 

Another article highlighted there are fights at summit due trying to take selfies:

 

‘It Was Like a Zoo’: Death on an Unruly, Overcrowded Everest

 

NEW DELHI — Ed Dohring, a doctor from Arizona, had dreamed his whole life of reaching the top of Mount Everest. But when he summited a few days ago, he was shocked by what he saw.

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. To get up there, he had to wait hours in a line, chest to chest, one puffy jacket after the next, on an icy, rocky ridge with a several-thousand foot drop.

 

 

 

 

 

Hopefully some are reached with our message at Base Camp on the way up and back! (shared from IG)

[BenJepthah]

One of my coworkers ( Hospital) has a friend who just got back from Everest. ( he summited) it took something like forty days.