Too many people and too little time was a deadly combination on the world’s highest peak
By Ankit Adhikari and Joanna Slater Joanna Slater Foreign correspondent covering South Asia Email Bio Follow May 27 at 9:02 AM KATHMANDU, Nepal — Chatur Tamang was on his way to the roof of the world when he hit a traffic jam.
At least 10 people died trying to reach the summit of the world’s tallest mountain this year, the deadliest climbing season for the peak in four years. One factor contributing to this year’s toll appears to have been crowding as scores of people attempted to ascend in a short window of good weather, producing delays that extended the time climbers spent at deadly altitudes.
“I’ve seen traffic, but not this crazy,” said Purja, who has summited Everest four times. Purja is among those who believe that the solution is to lengthen the traditional climbing season at Everest to spread out the climbers attempting to reach the summit. Others saw the traffic as an indication of how climbing Everest has become a commodity, drawing inexperienced thrill-seekers and polluting the mountain with garbage. Seeing the “anxiety-inducing conga line in the death zone,” it is “not only dread you sense, but hubris, too,” wrote Peter Beaumont in the Guardian. Climbing the world’s tallest peak “has become a trophy experience.”
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