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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...

Tshiring Jangbu Sherpa cannot forget the dead body he saw just metres from the summit of Mount Lhotse in the Himalayas more than a decade ago. The Nepali was working as a guide for a German climber trying to scale the world’s fourth highest mountain in May 2012. The body blocking their path was thought to be Milan Sedlacek, a Czech mountaineer who’d perished just a few days earlier. Mr Sherpa was curious why the Czech climber had died so close to the top. One of the gloves on the frozen corpse was missing. “The bare hand might have slipped...

Wall Street strategists are warning that U.S. stocks are on the brink of a major collapse after the market has entered the “death zone.” “Death zone” is a term used in mountain climbing to describe an altitude that is so high that climbers are unable to get enough oxygen. This week, the Chief U.S. Equity Strategist at Morgan Stanley, Michael Wilson, sent a note to investors relating the state of the market to the “death zone” and warning that the S&P 500, which is up 6 percent since the start of 2023, could fall as many as 3,000 points in...

Timothy White, 62, was last seen on May 8, 2020 at his Bedford, MA, care home •He had had surgery on his hip and was using a walker to move around •Confusion and disagreements about who controlled the site delayed the search •Bedford VA police, local police and Caritas - which ran the site - were involved •White's body was found in a stairwell 60ft from his door on June 12, 2020 •His body was so badly decomposed it was impossible to know how he died •The rival authorities blamed each other for the scandal •On Thursday the VA Office...

When we say “Everest is crowded,” this is what we mean

Ed Dohring, a doctor from Arizona, had dreamed his whole life of reaching the top of Mount Everest. But when he summited a few days ago, he was shocked by what he saw. Climbers were pushing and shoving to take selfies. The flat part of the summit, which he estimated at about the size of two Ping-Pong tables, was packed with 15 or 20 people. To get up there, he had to wait hours in a line, chest to chest, one puffy jacket after the next, on an icy, rocky ridge with a several-thousand foot drop. He even had to...