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Posted on 06/02/2026 4:10:39 AM PDT by DFG
Mount Everest climbers were seen in a huge human traffic jam amid a record number of visitors to the major landmark.
Footage published on social media shows hundreds of people at a standstill slowly making their way up Hillary Step, a 40-foot vertical rock on the path of the mountain.
The caption of the video read: 'Nearly 3 hours to cross this area due to congestion and difficult movement conditions at high altitude.
'Is this serious? Spending all this money on carriers and guides just to get stuck in a traffic jam!'
Sitting at 8,790 metres above sea level on the southeast ridge, Hillary Step is halfway between the South Summit and the true summit.
It is located in the 'Death Zone', considered the most technically difficult part of the Everest climb and the last challenge before reaching the top of the mountain.
A record number of climbers reached the summit of Mount Everest in a single day from the Nepal side of the mountain, officials said.
An estimated 275 people scaled the 29,032ft peak on Wednesday, marking the highest ever number of single-day summits recorded from the route.
The milestone has surpassed the previous record set on May 22, 2019, when 223 climbers scaled Everest from its southern side in Nepal.
It has renewed fears about overcrowding on the world’s highest mountain, with huge queues of climbers snaking towards the summit during the narrow weather window.
Experts often criticise Nepal for allowing large numbers of climbers on the mountain, which sometimes leads to risky traffic jams or long queues in the area just below the summit, where the level of natural oxygen is dangerously below what is required for human survival.
Expedition organisers have acknowledged the dangers of congestion but say the risks can be managed.
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Just put a cable tram in already.
And the world’s longest zip line to get down.
Hahaha!
I got to admit… That’s just absolutely crazy. Pretty stupid actually…
I have the movie “Everest“ in 3-D, but when you look at that with all the bottle next that happen when those people died in that one season back in the 90s, I believe… Looking at the picture you can understand why.
OK… Is it me, or is this person seriously not understanding that they themselves are part of the problem?
I fully understand why people do this as crazy as it looks, bucket, list thing, and all… But that person just seemed completely unaware, as if his little group were going to be the only people on the mountain.
Future archaeologists will have fun with this garbage, which will likely be preserved for a long time in the dry cold.
“What were they thinking with this lemming like behavior? Was this a religious pilgrimmage? What did they believe?” Et cetera.
They should shut it down for a few years to allow a clean up of all the trash .
I think five years would suffice .
LINK: Bill pushes Hillary in front of Biden on his bike, eating an ice cream cone
You’re right - 1996. I remember that..what a story...I don’t think it was that congested at that time, was it? The focus was on the deaths...Always in May - must be the best time for the climb?
https://www.himalayanrecreation.com/blog/1996-mount-everest-
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We saw the movie you must be referring to at IMAX - my goodness, just the training it took before the trip/climb made me dizzy..I forget where the training was - perhaps Pikes Peak?
Do you think that many climbers might make the mountain TIP OVER? LOL
A terrific book about the climb is “Into Thin Air” by Jon Krakauer - if you like to read, I highly recommend it.
“”In March 1996, Outside Magazine sent me to Nepal to participate in, and write about, a guided ascent of Mount Everest. I went as one of eight clients on an expedition led by a well-known guide from New Zealand named Rob Hall. On May 10 I arrived on top of the mountain, but the summit came at a terrible cost.””
Oh yeah. I read that when it came out. Terrible, just terrible. Heh, now...they can form a human chain to bring a stricken climber off the mountain...
“Well we had to use the oxygen tanks to keep the hair dryers going.”
Damn! Spit my coffee!!!!!!
And we saw her entourage toss her into a van. That's the only way I'd make it to the top of Everest: if somebody carried me.
Erode usually it depends
So much snow erosion gets snowed over again
However the entire route has fixed ropes and in many places
Ropes in both directions
Hard to fathom the crowd honestly
I have a much less than zero desire to do that.
What if you had to drop a deuce?
LOL! Judging how touristy Everest has become, I’m surprised one enterprising soul hasn’t thought of it.
What a bunch of rich douchebag idiots.
Man… that is indeed a conundrum. i’ll bet that is a problem too… With very irregular, bowel habits, although for some reason, I suspect they’re more likely to be constipated at altitude because it’s easy to get dehydrated.
And wearing Depends on the summit climb might not be an option… :-)
So, if you gots to go, your jewels will froze!
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