Everest - this is just ridiculous

unkel

CardinalJ

There are a few famous photos of the traffic jams, this will certainly be one of them.

They should bring in a tight lottery system.
You can only enter if you have a certain amount of high altitude, say 7,500m, experience and also can pay. Paying alone isn't enough.

I find it frustrating seeing so much blame being thrown at individual climbers when there are clearly way too many permits being given. High altitude alone is enough to kill some people, spending hours in a bottleneck accelerates it.

unkel

It already killed 3 people this week. Too long in the death zone / exhaustion. 300 climbers went up on Wednesday. Busiest day ever.

Chance of dying on Everest is 1 in 16. Bloody Russian roulette it is.

NIMAN

Still all free choice though.

How do you stop adults deciding to do something?

titan18

NIMAN wrote:

How do you stop adults deciding to do something?

Kinda easy really, don't hand out permits for it.

Mickeroo

unkel wrote: »

It already killed 3 people this week. Too long in the death zone / exhaustion. 300 climbers went up on Wednesday. Busiest day ever.

Chance of dying on Everest is 1 in 16. Bloody Russian roulette it is.

It's more like 1 in 45 I think.

Thought I read the total dead for this week is actually up at 5 now and a second Irish man among them.

CardinalJ

Before this season started the stats were that 'Since 2010, there have been 72 deaths on Everest and 7,954 climbs above base camp'.

Its obviously dangerous, but not as bad as some of the headline stats.

unkel

Mickeroo wrote: »

It's more like 1 in 45 I think.

Overall, yes probably something like that. But the last few years the chance of dying was reported as 6 point something percent.

Andrewf20

It's a great source of income for a relatively poor country so restricting permits may not happen soon.

The Black Oil

Know someone who completed it a few years ago. His children are all adults, though.

The photo is insane.

artanevilla

Worth too much money to Nepal to stop it. Need to severely restrict the amount of licenses to summit. Even the trained experienced guys die up there.

Agent_47

Saw a documentary with Ant Middleton (SAS who dares wins) that aired back in January on his trip up Everest, he stopped at the top to call his wife, got separated from the film crew. Turns out that brief call nearly cost him his life, a lad ahead on the way down slipped and although tied to the rope could not regain balance. Serpa decided he would have to cut him loose or they would die, lad must have heard him and got himself together and they got down. Said it himself, thought he was a goner, things are not in your control with this queuing to get up to the top.

Picture says it all really. Too much to risk.