A petrified woman frozen with fear, teens struggling to climb ladders: Climbers' harrowing accounts of what really happened on Everest [tr]

UK Daily Mail ^ | December 5, 2019 | Chris Pleasance

[lakecumberlandvet]

Idiots on a mountain.

[Huskrrrr]

And a McDonalds, definitely a McDonalds.

[varyouga]

“How sad for their loved ones, that people die up there on this great adventure of climbing a mountain”

I’m far sadder for those that die slipping in the street or bathtub

[TalonDJ]

“It’s funny how we’ve reached a point in modern civilization where climbing Everest is just a bucket list thing.”

They say more people have now climbed Everest than have sailed (by wind) around the world.

[ßuddaßudd]

I'm the Mountain
Rising high
It's the way that I survived

I'm the Mountain
Tell my tale
The greatest story's now for sale

[cuban leaf]

At my age, it would be the LAST item in the bucket.

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We could change that old phrase, “Florida, where america goes to die.” to “Everest, where america goes to die.” :)

[bgill]

With teens, ladders and the ever terrified woman, I thought this would be about the border wall.

[Thank You Rush]

A good book on the adventure of climbing Mt. Everest was “Into Thin Air”, written by Jon Krakauer on the disastrous 1996 climb. One can’t help but think that if the majority of the ropes and ladders - all the “assists” were removed from the climb making it less attractive to the inexperienced, there would be fewer deaths but then why should we care? I’m not sure I do but probably the people doing it for a lark because they can afford it are responsible for the deaths of others on the climb and that’s what is objectionable.

[yawningotter]

The bodies are now trail markers. As long as you can see dead people, you know you are on the right track.

[yawningotter]

Two way traffic on a knife edge at 28,000 feet. What could possibly go wrong?

[1Old Pro]

Amazing, but at $15,000 a climber fee I guess someone is cashing in.

[Rebelbase]

Mallory, the most notable body discovered on Everest.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFr1KdY6aiw

[Oratam]

The park really needs to close this ride.

[SunkenCiv]

Selections from the Mount Everest / Everest keywords, chrono sorted, duplicates out:

• Colorado climber stepped over newly dead bodies to summit Everest.(tr) [2019]
• 24,000 pounds of trash -- and 4 corpses -- removed from Mount Everest [2019]
• Here are two examples of idiots on Mt. Everest who should not be allowed to be there [2019]
• 'It Was Like a Zoo:' Death on an Unruly, Overcrowded Everest [2019]
• Yes, This Photo from Everest Is Real [2019]
• At least four more die on Everest amid overcrowding concerns [2019]
• Three more dead on Everest amid concerns about congestion near summit [2019]
• Saray Khumalo's fellow climber found dead a day after reaching Mt Everest peak [2019]
• 3 foreign climbers dead, 1 missing near top of Mount Everest [2017]
• Mount Everest's Hillary Step collapses, mountaineers confirm [2017]
• 85-Year-Old Dies Trying To Become Oldest Everest Climber [2017]
• Everest victim was out to prove 'vegans can do anything' [2016]
• Woman Trying to Prove 'Vegans Can Do Anything' Dies on Mount Everest [2016]
• Newsweek Disgracefully Links the Mt Everest Tragedy to Rising CO2 [2015]
• Edmund Hillary Would Be 'Horrified and Saddened' by Nepal Devastation-Daughter(Son Safe at Everest) [2015]
• Google Maps now lets you 'trek' Mount Everest on your computer (Very cool!) [2015]
• Decades of human waste have made Mount Everest a 'fecal time bomb' [2015]
• There are literally tons of human poop on Mount Everest [2015]
• Mount Everest and Pollution [2014]
• Graphic: A chronicle of all of the lives claimed by Mount Everest [2012]
• Lincoln Hall, mountaineer left on Everest, dies [2012]
• Intrade Founder John Delaney Dies On Mt. Everest [2011]
• Nepal Urged to Reduce Mount Everest Climbing Fee [2009]
• Brain swelling blamed in many Mount Everest deaths [2008]
• Nepalese Army and Police Ordered to Use Deadly Force to Stop Tibet Protests on Everest [2008]
• Nervous about Tibet, China bans Everest climbers [2008]
• Hillary comes clean about Sir Edmund : Admits she was not named for famous mountain climber [2006]
• Dying Brit climber 'too big' to rescue off Everest (the REAL story) [2006]
• Everest 2006: A message from the deathzone [2006]
• Conquering the Mountain - at a Price (Everest abandonment) [2006]
• EVEREST UPDATE: (David) Sharp unrescuable, says Chinese mountaineer (mom not angry) [2006]
• BREAKING: Everest rescue underway for Australian [2006]
• Climbers' Attitude Is 'Horrifying', Says Sir Edmund [2006]
• Everest Pioneer Climber Blasts Group Who Left Dying Man [2006]
• Everest climber left to die alone [2006]
• Scientists: Mt. Everest Only 29,017 Feet [2005]
• PRC Chinese Soldiers Fired on American Climbers in Nepal [2002]
• Beijing campaigns to rename Mt Everest as Mt Qomolangma [2002]
• No Longer Everest-Westerners Urged to Recognize Original Name of World's Highest Peak [2002]

[GOPJ]

This isn't Sir Edmund Hillary conquering the impossible, it's a cheap ride at a Disney wannabee tacky North Dakota carnival.

The whole ‘bucket list’ for competitive bored white liberal ‘elites’ is boring...

Get over it ‘elites’... we're NOT impressed....

[Hot Tabasco]

Before there was an effort to clean up the place, I saw pictures of base camps that looked like land fills of garbage.....disgusting!

As a side note, each guide group should be required to salvage the body of anyone who dies and bring them back to the base instead of just leaving them behind.

[Boogieman]

Don’t forget they’ll have to grow their own potatoes and such in little pressurized tents heated and lit with only solar power.

[Hot Tabasco]

I thought this would be about the border wall.

That was my first thought too....LOL!

[Eleutheria5]

But they wanted to feel good about accomplishing something. Do they still get participation trophies?/s

[Eleutheria5]

It’s all the government’s fault for not providing an elevator. Let’s sue./s