The mad dash to scale Everest: Video shows huge 'traffic jam' of climbers snaking up ice-covered slopes in 'weather window rush hour' as two more go missing days after Brit, 40, and Sherpa disappeared near summit

UK Daily Mail ^ | May 23, 2024 | David Averre and Elena Salvoni

[dfwgator]

Mount Everest...Forbidding, Aloof, Terrifying.....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0F2SJS6B1wQ

[roving]

That sounds about as much fun as going into a cave in pure blackness.

[DEPcom]

Some of the people who attempt to climb Mount Everest are environmentally conscious and vocal advocates for addressing climate change and pollution. However, when I see photos of traffic jams, trash, and dead bodies on the mountain, it strikes me as hypocritical, and I believe the climb should be banned. It seems that ordinary people might have more sense than some of these environmentalists.

[PIF]

Can anyone imagine just how many 5 gal buckets of human waste and dead bodies are filling up the mountain?

[1Old Pro]

It’s a big business with lots of customers willing to pay.

[Reeses]

Waiting in line to finally scale the magic mountain? Absurd.

Maybe waiting in line for hours is a great way to network with stupid money people and make connections. If a failed Instagram princess wants to meet a rich adventurer, using a euphoric assist from severe oxygen deprivation, it could be love at first sight, or maybe just brain damage.

[Delta 21]

Dozens of dead bodies frozen and left for later.

This is stupidity.

[pierrem15]

Climbing permits and climbing expeditions are one of the primary sources of revenue in Nepal. The people are desperately poor and working on a climbing expedition for a couple of months can provide a good income for a year.

The locals don't share Western aesthetics so they have little incentive to reduce the number of climbers.

[pierrem15]

I would add that people for some reason seem to be consistently underestimating the chances of death from altitude sickness and how oxygen deprivation affects not only the brain but the body's ability to produce heat and circulation in the extremities, particularly when you add the physical stress of climbing.

Add to oxygen deprivation the threat of changing weather trapping you in frigid cold at high altitude or avalanche and the threat of death is non-trivial for almost every climb.

[Fiji Hill]

My brother climbed to the top of Mt. McKinley. He was the only member of his climbing party to make it to the top.

[bravo whiskey]

“I went through a phase where I read the Everest and K2 books about various expeditions. Ugh, no more!”

Me too. When Krakauer’s book INTO THIN AIR came out.

[libertylover]

Yeah, they’d better hurry before global warming melts Mount Everest.

[Chode]

do they go down a back trail or do they have to go back down the line they just came up???

[pas]

And the auroras earlier this month.

[Red Badger]

Ping!........................

[dgbrown]

That would be a good way to get rid of the bodies scattered around up there.

[rlmorel]

Eeek!!!!

I had a hot dog once at a Nathan’s at a rest area on the New Jersey Turnpike that had a texture as if it had been made from one of those desiccated corpses found up there!

[rlmorel]

I don’t have a problem with doing it, even if I do have a problem with the necessity of rescue teams who sometimes have to get involved.

It is one thing if you go out for a hike and get lost in the woods and need rescuing.

It is quite another when you engage in something where you are rappelling up the side of a 15,000 foot mountain and they have to call in some rescue jumpers.

Even still, I accept it. We rescue people who need it...:)

[quantim]

I left that gruesome part out, read somewhere years ago on average 2 people DIE every year. Also it is said there is an underground ‘market’ for those with bucks to buy their way to the front of line so to speak and other nefarious activities.

[1Old Pro]

I left that gruesome part out, read somewhere years ago on average 2 people DIE every yearJust over 4/year with something like 200 bodies left on Everest.