Mount Everest
The devastating avalanches on Mount Everest in 2014 and 2015, highlighted some longstanding problems for the climbing industries in Nepal. Especially for local Sherpa guides where issues like overcrowding, safety, meager wages and insurance are of immense concerns. These problems have left many wondering why the Nepal government hasn't done more support the Sherpa guides? The group of people risks their lives so that foreign climbers can attempt Everest. The desire to conquer Everest has been on the rise ever since Sherpa, Tenzing Norgay, and New Zealander, Edmund Hillary first Summited the peak in 1953. For decades, climbing the world tallest mountain remained the reserve for hardened explorer bit in the 1990s, advances in technology made
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Mount Everest is not a beautiful place for mountaineers. There are hundreds of dead bodies, and some are used as the landmark. The Mountain offer numerous ways for dying from falling into the abyss to suffocating from lack of oxygen. The humans haven been claiming the Mount Everest ever since Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay was first successful ascent in nineteen fifty-three. Over 250 people died on Mount Everest between 1924 to 2014. Of the 250 individuals who have died in their attempts to climb Everest and estimated 200 of them remain on the Mount …show more content…
Eight people died while making the summit attempts. In that season 14 people died while trying to reach the summit and making it the single deadliest in the mountain history to that point. These does not include the 22 people who died from an avalanche set off by an earthquake in April 2015 which hit the base camp. The most climber died while descending from the upper slopes of the Mountain. Often after having reached the summit. When climbers are above 8000 meters, climbers are in a spot refers as the death zone. At this altitude, the oxygen in the atmosphere is implementable enough to sustain
Mount Everest is not a beautiful place for mountaineers. There are hundreds of dead bodies, and some are used as the landmark. The Mountain offer numerous ways for dying from falling into the abyss to suffocating from lack of oxygen. The humans haven been claiming the Mount Everest ever since Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay was first successful ascent in nineteen fifty-three. Over 250 people died on Mount Everest between 1924 to 2014. Of the 250 individuals who have died in their attempts to climb Everest and estimated 200 of them remain on the Mount …show more content…
Eight people died while making the summit attempts. In that season 14 people died while trying to reach the summit and making it the single deadliest in the mountain history to that point. These does not include the 22 people who died from an avalanche set off by an earthquake in April 2015 which hit the base camp. The most climber died while descending from the upper slopes of the Mountain. Often after having reached the summit. When climbers are above 8000 meters, climbers are in a spot refers as the death zone. At this altitude, the oxygen in the atmosphere is implementable enough to sustain