]Mount Everest on track for one of its deadliest years (14)
I seen a pic of it. People lined up like cattle or in Disney park.
Probably a greater risk for them being jammed up in line than climbing Everest... just to say, they did.
Probably a greater risk for them being jammed up in line than climbing Everest... just to say, they did.
CossackCat: I seen a pic of it. People lined up like cattle or in Disney park.
Probably a greater risk for them being jammed up in line than climbing Everest... just to say, they did.
OTHER CLIMBING FEESProbably a greater risk for them being jammed up in line than climbing Everest... just to say, they did.
Besides the permits and additional cost, climbers are required to pay some other climbing related fees such as medical support fee, hiring the relation officer to join them in base camp, phone bills (to make a call to their family) including the tip for Sherpa $500. Also, includes a refundable deposit for the removal of harsh and human waste. The other climbing fees are from $2,000 to $4,000 per person.
MISCELLANEOUS
The emergency-rescue insurance if an accident happens during the climbing the Mount Everest or trip cancellation coverage, visa, immunization, cooks, porters, yaks, satellite phone and medical kit. Despite these expenses, the cost varies widely in which the whole price of the climb is $10,00 to 13,000.
So as a whole cost can go up to $100,000. Let us know if we have missed any cost in the comment section below. If you have any queries you can email us at info@nepalsanctuarytreks.com
Another climber died making this number 11 so far....................
bcjenny: Another climber died making this number 11 so far....................
Sad all those lives lost what a waste
They should ban people from climbing everest, it's going to be a mountain of bodies with all the people dying there.
Butcher559: They should ban people from climbing everest, it's going to be a mountain of bodies with all the people dying there.
I agree with you but it is also again about the money made by many?What is so special when so many succeed the clime?
3 tons of garbage just cleaned up
bcjenny: I agree with you but it is also again about the money made by many?
What is so special when so many succeed the clime?
3 tons of garbage just cleaned up
Yeah the trash on that mountain must building up by now, the bodies and rubbish won't break down there to..What is so special when so many succeed the clime?
3 tons of garbage just cleaned up
‘It Was Like a Zoo:’ Death on an Unruly, Overcrowded Everest
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 step around the frozen body of a woman who had just died.
“It was scary,” he said by telephone from Kathmandu, Nepal, where he was resting in a hotel room. “It was like a zoo.”
This has been one of the deadliest climbing seasons on Everest, with at least 10 deaths. And at least some seem to have been avoidable.
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 step around the frozen body of a woman who had just died.
“It was scary,” he said by telephone from Kathmandu, Nepal, where he was resting in a hotel room. “It was like a zoo.”
This has been one of the deadliest climbing seasons on Everest, with at least 10 deaths. And at least some seem to have been avoidable.
3 tons of garbage was just removed from the mountain
Something needs to be done for sure.............
Something needs to be done for sure.............
bcjenny: Another climber died making this number 11 so far....................
I just seen an article saying "Another American has died". The 11th person (Dr from Bolder Colorado). But how many were American? Or North American? There is even a scandal now about a photo taken of people and posted somewhere and there is a dead body lying there.
It doesn't seem to be that they were posing with in. But still...Butcher559: They should ban people from climbing everest, it's going to be a mountain of bodies with all the people dying there.
Napal gave out a record number of permits this year. Over 280. Why? The weather? Greed? Both?381 permits were given out this year .................
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A narrow window of good weather has led to deadly overcrowding on Mount Everest. Most of the 10 deaths this month occurred after climbers spent too much time in the "death zone."
Traffic jam of climbers on Mount Everest (AFP/Project Possible)
At least 10 people this climbing season have died attempting to summit and descend Mount Everest, putting it on track to be one of the deadliest years. Climbers have expressed concerns of overcrowding on the world's highest mountain (above photo) after a long queue to reach the summit.
A small window of good weather before the end of the short April and May climbing season has created a traffic jam of climbers in the Everest "death zone," leading to exhaustion, dehydration and death.
Expedition organizers on Saturday said an Irish climber and a British climber died, bring the death toll to 10. British national Robin Fisher had reached the summit but collapsed 150 meters into his descent. The Irish climber died Friday morning on the Tibetan side of the mountain.
Read more: Mount Everest cleanup team picks up 3 tons of garbage
Nepali officials said on Friday that three Indian climbers and one Sherpa guide had died. The three Indians, named as Anjali Sharad Kulkarni, 54, Kalpana Das, 49, and Nihal Ashpak Bagwan, 27, reportedly died from exhaustion while descending after reaching the peak.
"Bagwan died of dehydration, exhaustion and tiredness after being caught in the jam of climbers," said Keshab Paudel of the Peak Promotion hiking agency. "We don't know for how long the jam lasted nor how many climbers were clogged by a single line near the summit," Paudel said.