Some people will go to extremes to get a Darwin award. Good opportunity for an experiment. Does the mortality rate correlate with the amount of time a human is forced to breathe air at 28,000 feet? Most of these people make the climb but are stuck up there much longer than they expected due to the congestion preventing a quick descent. Sure they get very acidodic as they become hypoxic and dehydrated and then try to walk and carry their belongings. Even a very fit climber is subject to sudden death. And for what? For another patch on your jacket? Some silly notion of self satisfaction and accomplishment?
It would be safer to photoshop yourself into a picture of the summit and call it a day.
An Instagrammable moment.
Have you lived a risk free life