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2019: The Season of Death on Everest?

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3 June 2019

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Hundreds of climbers from across the world visit India to scale mountains located across the Himalayan belt, but the twin peaks of Nanda Devi are the toughest to scale.

The first successful ascent to the Nada Devi summit was in 1936.

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NEW DELHI: An increasingly desperate search for eight climbers missing after an avalanche in the Indian Himalayas was called off due to poor weather but will resume at first light on Monday, officials said.

The four Britons, two Americans, one Indian and one Australian have been unaccounted for since Friday on the 7,826-metre Nanda Devi, India’s second-highest mountain.

Two helicopters and scores of emergency workers combed the area on Sunday for a second day, but the search was called off in the early afternoon due to heavy cloud coverage, a local official told AFP.

Vijay Kumar Jogdande, a magistrate in the Pithoragarh district where the mountain is located, said it would begin again at 5:00 am on Monday (2330 GMT Sunday) – weather permitting.

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28 May 2019

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A Colorado attorney is the latest climber to die on Mount Everest. Chris Kulishcollapsed on his way down after reaching the summit, becoming at least the 11th fatality there this season.

CBS News spoke to Dr. Ed Dohring, who was on the same expedition as Kulish and said he was not prepared for what he saw when he got there: Too many people dangerously vying for the same experience.

“That’s what made it scary for me,” Dohring said. “Is that there was a large group on the summit by the time I got there. There was a subgroup that was very rude and unruly and was basically pushing so that they could get better pictures of themselves and I just thought ‘this is not safe.'”

But before you even make it to the top – an icy platform no wider than two ping pong tables – there are traffic jams on the final few feet in an area known as the “death zone.” At that altitude there is not enough oxygen for humans to breathe, so vital supplies are used up while the climbers just wait.

There are too many people navigating too small a space and, according to Dohring, too many of them don’t know what they are doing. He witnessed firsthand that deadly combination.

“I was surprised at how many people were, you know, above 26,000 feet and were really obviously either not fit or not experienced and probably shouldn’t have been there,” Dohring said. “I certainly wasn’t prepared to pass dead bodies that were attached to the safety line. It was very difficult.”

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/mount-everest-deaths-climber-describes-traffic-jams-and-corpses/?ftag=CNM-00-10aab7e&linkId=68188759

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AFP news agency‏Verified account @AFP

New Delhi (AFP) – A US climber has died after descending from Everest, officials said Tuesday, taking this season’s toll to 11 including several deaths blamed on overcrowding on the world’s highest mountain.

Christopher John Kulish, 61, had already climbed the 8,848-metre (29,029-feet) peak, and was safely back at a camp below the summit on Monday evening.

“All of a sudden he had a heart problem and passed away at South Col, according to his expedition organisers,” said Mira Acharya from Nepal’s tourism department.

Nepal issued a record 381 Everest permits this season and a short weather window resulted in some teams waiting several hours in the dangerous “dead zone”, running out of oxygen supplies and risking exhaustion.

At least four of the deaths this season — the deadliest since 2015 when massive earthquakes triggered avalanches that swept away climbers’ camps — have been blamed on the delays.

As well as the Everest deaths, nine climbers have died on other 8,000-metre Himalayan peaks, while one person is missing.

In addition to the Nepal permits that cost $11,000 each, at least 140 others were granted permission to climb from the northern flank of Everest in Tibet.

Although final numbers are yet to be released with the season ending this week, together with the accompanying sherpa guides this could take the total past last year’s record of 807 people reaching the summit.

https://news.yahoo.com/us-climber-becomes-11th-everest-fatality-062146716.html;_ylt=AwrXnCcJ1Oxc_DYA5a7QtDMD;_ylu=X3oDMTEyMzVuNWlzBGNvbG8DZ3ExBHBvcwMxBHZ0aWQDQjc1MDZfMQRzZWMDc3I-

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26 May 2019

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ABritish climber, who became the latest person to die on Mount Everest this season, admitted before setting off that he feared the dangers of overcrowding in the “death zone”.

Robin Haynes Fisher, 44, died on his descent after reaching the 8,850-metre (29,035 feet) summit of the world’s highest mountain.

He passed away in the “death zone”, the area named for the low levels of oxygen on descent from the summit.

Mr Fisher, who lived in Birmingham, is one of at least eight climbers to die on the treacherous slopes in the current climbing season that ends this month.

Hiking officials attributed most of the deaths to weakness, exhaustion and delays on the crowded route to the summit.

In his last social media post on Tuesday, Mr Fisher wrote how he had changed his climbing plans in order to avoid the crowds.

 

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/05/25/british-climber-dies-death-zone-amid-queues-reach-summit/?hootPostID=5ef19dcf5557fea92c71188c6d0ee8df

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A British climber who died yesterday near the summit of Everest confided just before he set off that he feared overcrowding in the “death zone” of the world’s highest mountain.

In his last social media post on Tuesday, Robin Fisher, 44, wrote how he had changed his plans to avoid the crowds.

He wrote: “With a single route to the summit, delays caused by overcrowding could prove fatal so I am hopeful my decision to go for the 25th will mean fewer people. Unless of course everyone else plays the same waiting game.”

He reached the summit yesterday at 8.30am but collapsed when he had descended only 500ft.

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/robin-fisher-british-mountaineer-who-died-on-everest-feared-overcrowding-2kk75fhfc?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1558852931

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25 May 2019

As the once-elusive Mount Everest has become increasingly popular, overcrowding has taken a toll, and not just on the landscape. Seven climbers have died in a week — more than the lives lost on the mountain in all of 2018, reports the BBC.

The deaths come amid reports of “traffic jams” on Everest. News agency AFP says that on May 22, when the weather was clear, more than 200 climbers were attempting to summit from both Nepal and China. Climbing teams were lined up for hours to reach the top, risking altitude sickness and frostbite while they waited.

The most recent deaths include Indian climber Anjali Kulkarni, 55, who died on her way back from climbing to the summit. Her son told CNN she had become stuck in the line above camp four, the final camp before the summit. American mountaineer Donald Lynn Cash, 55, died after fainting from high altitude sickness while descending from the summit.

Climber Nirmal Purja, who was part of the Project Possible Expedition, tweeted a photo of the line.

On Facebook he shared that he counted roughly 320 people waiting to summit. The area is known as “the death zone” because of its dangerously high altitude — 26,247 feet (8,000 meters).

Last year, a record 807 people reached the summit, according to the BBC. This year, AFP reports that Nepal has issued a record 381 permits costing $11,000 each for this year’s spring climbing season alone, causing concern about how that level of foot traffic will affect safety.

Danduraj Ghimire, director general of Nepal’s Tourism Department, however, told CNN that claims of crowding contributing to climber deaths are “baseless.”

“The weather has not been very great this climbing season, so when there is a small window when the weather clears up, climbers make the move,” Ghimire said. “On May 22, after several days of bad weather, there was a small window of clear weather, when more than 200 mountaineers ascended Everest. The main cause of deaths on Everest has been high altitude sickness which is what happened with most of the climbers who lost their lives this season as well.”

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11 April 2018

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Wealthy westerners looking to navigate their midlife crises on the backs of Sherpas will have to wait another year because the guys in charge of basically shuttling them to the top of Mount Everest are shutting it down.

The Nepalese guides on Tuesday told AFP they’re abandoning the climbing season to honor 16 colleagues who lost their lives last week. That, and they’re sick of risking everything for relative scraps and weak insurance coverage.
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This, of course, is a real bummer for mountaineers, and non-mountaineers, who have paid upwards of $90,000 and blocked up big chunks of their calendars to attempt the climb. Many of them are already sitting in base camp waiting their turn.

In fact, Ani Tshering of the Nepal Moutaineering Association told the Guardian that there are about 400 foreign climbers with an equal number of Sherpas currently on the mountain.

http://blogs.marketwatch.com/themargin/2014/04/22/mourning-sherpas-shut-down-mt-everest-after-deadly-avalanche/

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DEATH AND INJURY AND MOUNT EVEREST

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Everest Avalanche updates: 12 dead, four missing

KATMANDU: Rescuers were searching through piles of snow and ice on the slopes of Mount Everest today for four Sherpa guides who were buried by an avalanche that killed 12 other Nepalese guides in the deadliest disaster on the world’s highest peak.

Krishna Lamsal, a Nepal Tourism Ministry official at the base camp, said the bodies of the 12 guides were pulled out and brought down Friday

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http://youtu.be/X5LKmPtORrU

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Mount Everest avalanche leaves at least 13 Nepalese climbers dead

• Jason Burke in Delhi and Ishwar Rauniyar in Kathmandu
• theguardian.com, Friday 18 April 2014 09.52 BST

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Six dead in Everest avalanche – AVALANCHE ON MOUNT EVEREST, APRIL 2014

http://youtu.be/KY1TgN9h28A

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theguardian

Mount Everest. Photograph: Steve Satushek/Getty Images
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An avalanche swept the slopes of Mount Everest on Friday along a route used to ascend the world’s highest peak, killing at least six Nepalese guides and leaving nine more missing, officials said.

The Sherpa guides had gone early in the morning to fix the ropes for hundreds of climbers when the avalanche hit them just below Camp 2 around 630am local time (2am BST), said Nepal tourism ministry official Krishna Lamsal, speaking from the base camp and monitoring the rescue efforts.

Four bodies have been recovered and rescuers were digging two more out of the snow, he said. Nine more Sherpas are unaccounted for and believed to be buried, he said.

Hundreds of climbers, their guides and support guides had gathered at the base camp, gearing up for attempts to scale the 8,850-metre (29,035ft) peak early next month when weather conditions become favourable. They have been setting up their camps at higher altitudes with guides fixing routes and ropes on the slopes ahead of the ascent to the summit in May.

As soon as the avalanche hit, rescuers and fellow climbers rushed to help. A helicopter was also sent from Kathmandu.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/18/mount-everest-avalanche-climbers

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RUBBISH AND MT EVEREST

Decades of mountaineering have taken a toll on the world’s highest peak, which is strewn with rubbish from past expeditions, including oxygen cylinders, human waste and even climbers’ bodies, which do not decompose in the extreme cold.

Star

Monday March 3, 2014 MYT 9:05:55 PM

Nepal to force Everest climbers to collect rubbish

Kathmandu (AFP) – Climbers on Mount Everest will be forced to bring back eight kilograms (17.6 pounds) of garbage, an official said Monday, to clean up a peak that has become the world’s highest rubbish dump.

The rule, one of several new measures covering mountaineering in the Himalayan nation, will apply to climbers ascending beyond Everest’s base camp from April onwards, said tourism ministry official Madhusudan Burlakoti.

“The government has decided in order to clean up Mount Everest that each member of an expedition must bring back at least eight kilos of garbage, apart from their own trash,” he told AFP.
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Although expeditions currently have to fork out a $4,000 deposit, refunded once they show they have brought back everything they took up the mountain, enforcement has been a problem.

“Our earlier efforts have not been very effective. This time, if climbers don’t bring back garbage, we will take legal action and penalise them,” tourism official Burlakoti said.

 

http://www.thestar.com.my/News/Regional/2014/03/03/Nepal-to-force-Everest-climbers-to-collect-rubbish/

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4 JUNE 2013: FIRST MALAYSIAN TO DIE ON MT EVEREST

WHILE MANY OF THOSE WHO PERISHED ON MT EVEREST ARE STILL LYING THERE, THEIR BODIES UNRECOVERED, THE FIRST MALAYSIAN CASUALTY WILL BE FLOWN HOME.

The first Malaysian to die on Mt Everest is Mohamad Shahrulnizam Ahmad Nazari, 25, an employee of Putrajaya Corporation.

PUTRAJAYA: Mount Everest telah mendakwa pendaki Malaysia yang pertama. Seorang pekerja Perbadanan Putrajaya (PPJ) meninggal dunia ketika menuju ke kem asas Everest. Kedutaan Malaysia di Kathmandu, Nepal, mengesahkan bahawa Mohamad Shahrulnizam Ahmad Nazari telah mati akibat Penyakit Gunung akut (AMS).

Pendaki Malaysia, Mohamad Shahrulnizam disahkan terbunuh

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Another critically ill Malaysian, who suffered acute altitude sickness, Mohd Yazrul Ekhsan Yahya, 34, was reported to be in a stable condition.

The group had decided to abandon the expedition.

ABN News

05 Jun 2013 12:50am

One Malaysian climber dies at Mount Everest base camp, another

Body of Malaysian climber due home tomorrow

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An Indian woman who lost her leg after she was thrown from a moving train two years ago has become the first female amputee to climb Everest.

Arunima Sinha lost her leg after she was thrown from a moving train two years ago has become the first female amputee to climb Everest Photo: EPA

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/nepal/10072600/Indian-woman-becomes-first-

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Saturday, May 25, 2013 4:3:55 GMT

The Wall Street Journal
India

Indian Is First Female Amputee up Everest

Almost two years to the day since a moving train severed Arunima Sinha’s left leg just below the knee, the 26-year-old Indian arrived at Everest base camp ready to climb the world’s highest mountain.

On Tuesday morning just before 11 o’clock she became the first female amputee to reach the summit.Ms. Sinha, who has a prosthetic leg, took nearly 17 hours to scale the mountain after spending about two months acclimatizing and going on treks in northern India and Nepal to prepare for the ascent.

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New York Daily News

80-year-old Japanese is oldest person to scale Mount Everest

Yuichiro Miura, who has climbed to the ‘top of the world’ twice before, accomplished the feat despite four heart operations.

By Stephen Williams / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS

Thursday, May 23, 2013, 11:33 AM

Yuichiro Miura reaches the top of Mount Everest for the third time in his life. He conquered the mountain at ages 70 and 75 as well.

Four heart surgeries were just an annoyance to Yuichiro Miura, who, at the age of 80, has become the oldest person to climb to the summit of Mount Everest.

His achievement has eclipsed the record set in 2008 by a 76-year-old man.

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Four climbers from Germany, South Korea, China and Canada died while descending from the crowded summit area last weekend, which saw 150 people reach the top of the world before a severe windstorm set in.

25 May 2012

More than 50 climbers reached the top of Mount Everest Friday at the start of a two-day window that has raised fears of perilous overcrowding on the world’s highest peak after four deaths last week.

The 48-hour stretch of forecast good weather was expected to see more than 200 climbers try a final push to the 8,848-metre (29,029-foot) summit, despite warnings of potentially deadly bottlenecks in the “death zone” above 8,000m.

“So far 52 people have summited and there were a total of 150 ready to climb at camp four,” said tourism ministry official Tilak Pandey.

“Yesterday only half went up because they were fearing traffic jams and those remaining will start their ascent (Friday) evening and will be back by tomorrow.”

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MOUNT EVEREST IS THERE AND THAT’S WHY THEY CLIMB IT BUT SOME NEVER RETURNED.

Mount Everest is the highest mountain in the world. You would be right to consider it the ultimate challenge for mountaineers

By the end of the 2010 climbing season, there had been 5,104 ascents to the summit by about 3,142 individuals. 80% of these ascents have taken place since 2000. In 2007, the record number of 633 ascents has been recorded, by 350 climbers and 253 sherpas.

However, more than 200 climbers have died, of which about 150 have never been recovered.

Yes, that is right. Their bodies are still there, unrecovered.

THESE 150 NEVER CAME BACK.

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Mount Everest – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Mt Everest – Image Results

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Japanese woman, 73, breaks own record as oldest female to climb Mount Everest

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The Death Zone
(Adapted from Wikipedia)

The death zone refers to heights above 8,000 metres (26,000 feet).

At the higher regions of Mount Everest, climbers seeking the summit typically spend substantial time within the death zone and face significant challenges to survival. Temperatures can dip to very low levels, resulting in frostbiteof any body part exposed to the air. Since temperatures are so low, snow is well-frozen in certain areas and death or injury by slipping and falling can occur. High winds at these altitudes on Everest are also a potential threat to climbers.

Another significant threat to climbers is low atmospheric pressure. The atmospheric pressure at the top of Everest is about a third of sea level pressure or 0.333 standard atmospheres (337 mbar), resulting in the availability of only about a third as much oxygen to breathe.

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In the following link, there is a video. If you’re below 16, please don’t watch it. IT”s GRUESOME, to put it mildly.

1. The Open Graveyard of Mt. Everest‘s “Death Zone“

   

   A word of warning: The images in the accompanying video are quite graphic. In 2006, a lone climber attempting the summit of Mount Everest for the third time was …

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In the 56 years since the first men in history reached the top, 216 people have died, and the grim reality of the horrific conditions of the Final Push is that 150 bodies have never been, and likely can never be, recovered. They are all still there, and located, almost without exception, in the Death Zone.

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www.visualnews.com/…/09/mt-everest-inside-the-death–zone – Cached

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