Terrific, heartbreaking book and TV movie. The selfishness of certain wealthy and vacuous people! Never mind that one woman was pulled and pushed up the mountain and likely carried back down. What a waste for the mountaineers who lost their lives. My sympathies to their widows.
The numbers in post #2 really tell the story of how many people are climbing Everest. And it looks like those numbers are just the summits and not the attempts.
There's got to be so much litter and detrius on that mountain by now. I imagine some day it will be closed off.