“US climber Don Cash died on Wednesday after being delayed in a bottleneck of climbers during his descent. Cash, 55, fell ill close to the summit and was being helped down by two Sherpas when he collapsed again while waiting in a queue for two hours to descend the Hillary step, a well-known chokepoint”
People are dying of altitude sickness because they’re having to spend so long waiting in lines at extreme altitude. Sherpas can’t get experienced climbers down to lower altitude fast enough due to the congestion of climbers. I have to wonder if people are being told how long the wait is to go up & then down so they understand how long they will have to endure not just the wind & cold but the lack of oxygen.
Well, there is a quick way down.
Oh the irony...