Mt. Everest climbers are having a tough year. Citing experts, ABC News tried to make the deaths on Mt. Everest about climate change. After you wade through the climate fear porn, you find that 11 of 17 deaths were preventable, which is not much different than the expected 4 to 6 deaths.
Seventeen climbers died while trying to climb Everest this year, an extraordinary figure compared to the average of four to six climbers per season, Alan Arnette, a seasoned mountaineer, said.
While the Nepalese government blamed the steep increase in Everest fatalities on climate change, inexperienced and ill-equipped or unqualified guides is likely to blame for the majority of the deaths. the climbing experts said.
Of the 17 people who died, 11 of the deaths were preventable, Arnette said. Several of the deaths were blamed on natural causes, which is typical, Arnette said.
“It is to be expected that you’re going to have people that are going to die from natural causes when climbing Everest because the lower amount of oxygen, and then the exertion that the body goes through climbing at that altitude is stresses the body,” Arnette said.
Why climb Mt. Everest? “Because it is there,” George Mallory.
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Last year I read a long article about Mount Everest, sorry I don t have the link,
and it said that in the past only experts would climb it but now almost anybody can do it – if they have the money – as it is very expensive.
But because it pays so much that is why the people instructing you on what to do and giving the ok for you to climb have lowered the bar; the more they lower the bar the more people spend something like $50,000 for someone to help them climb mount Everest.
this means that people out of shape or not all that able will still try to climb mount Everest just because they have the money.
That is why so many people fail or die.
It is all about money.
The article was saying that there are something like 200 frozen dead bodies left here and there at Mount Everest because recovering the body costs something like $ 200,000 and some people simply cannot afford that.
It was also explaining that there are now so many people climbing Mount Everest and leaving trash behind – because climbers cannot carry back their trash with them when they come down – that there are now PILES or MOUNDS of trash in many places.
There were photos, and it is true, there is a lot of trash.
another problem not near the top but near the bottom is overcrowding that causes bottle necks, there was photos of that too ; you could see like 30 people waiting for the group ahead of them to start moving, a group who were not very good at climbing and were slowing down everyone else.
and this causes fight between people…
it is now a tourist thing and it is becoming a disaster,
and climate change has nothing to do with any of it.
Excellent info!