[jjotto]

Here’s one description:

“There is no firm count of the exact number of climbers that have died on Mount Everest, but as of 2016, about 280 climbers have died, about 6.5 percent of the more than 4,000 climbers who have reached the summit since the first ascent by Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay in 1953.”

[Dark Knight]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Into_Thin_Air

I saw the PBS documentary on it, and it was pretty scary/strange/weird. It was an expose on “climbers” paying $60k to reach the top. Most were not ready to be there, and that is the primary reason they died.

Very sad.

DK

[BEJ]

Thanks. Who knew!