At the top of Everest, there will be a large number of climbers 'congested' and deaths will continue


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Moving Mountains Trust

Hundreds of mountain climbers are attacking to the summit at Everest , the highest mountain in the world. However, despite advances in mountaineering technology and equipment, the number of victims is increasing in the 2019 mountain climbing season, and it is reported that 'a large number of mountain climbers are congested at the summit of Everest'. You

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On May 22, 2019, American man Donald Lynn Cash, who was challenged to climb the Everest, fell while taking a picture on the summit and died while being taken down by Sherpa. did. Mr. Cash is 54 years old and has left his wife and four children.

In addition, two climbers, Anjali Kulkarni and Kalpana Das, were killed in a similar situation before Cash, and on the 25th, British climber Robin Fisher was about 150 meters below the summit. I died where I was. It is thought that these deaths are mainly caused by the 'congestion' occurring at points called ' death zones ' that are over 8000m above sea level.


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Mário Simoes

Every climber attacking Everest takes special measures, such as high altitude adaptation , to increase blood red blood cells and so on, in order to acclimatize her in conditions of low oxygen. However, the death zone's oxygen content is still so low that people will gradually come to death just by staying in the death zone.

Mountain climbers also want to leave the death zone as soon as possible, but the weather is unstable near the summit of Everest, and even during the climbing season, it is not possible to attack daily. Therefore, many climbers wait in the camp aiming at a slight sunny interval, and a large number of climbers start walking toward the summit when the sunny interval is gone. This has led to a row of climbers, and a 'congestion' has occurred.


The Indian climber Anuja Vaidya, who successfully climbed on May 22, said that the climbers were having to wait an hour down the mountain because of the traffic jam. 'I was scared and worried. It was very cold and windy, but I had to wait because everyone was lined up in a long row,' Vaidya says the situation at that time. Mr Vaidya was able to return to the base camp without doing any injuries, but he saw that many people had frostbite at the base camp.


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Guillaume Baviere

In recent years, traffic congestion near the summit has become a problem at Everest due to an increase in the number of climbers. Lam Babu Sherpa, who climbed Everest seven times and attacked with 22 foreign climbers on the 22nd, pointed out that the traffic jam is deadly for those who are not carrying spare oxygen.

'With more than 200 climbers in a row, I can not overtake the row. I saw a team waiting for two hours down the hill.' 'Many climbers are tired and move “It's late and exposes people not only to themselves but also to others,” says Sherpa.

In Nepal, during the mountain climbing season from late April to the end of May, the Everest climb permit was issued to 381 climbers who paid $ 11,000 (about 1.2 million yen) for climbing costs. In addition to this, it is said that an estimated 600 people from the Nepal side attacked the summit by the 24th due to Sherpa's accompanying. In addition, it is estimated that there is a possibility that the record of 807 climbs in 2018 may be changed, as at least 140 people have been granted a climb permission from the Tibetan side.


by Mário Simoes

Meanwhile, Dandu Raj Ghimire, secretary general of the Nepal Tourism Authority, claims that not only traffic congestion but also other factors, including bad weather, are responsible for the death of climbers. Certainly this year of congestion while that it was more than expected, 'climbing to the Himalayas is in itself those adventurous and complicated and delicate, the tragic accident inevitable does not' and I mentioned .

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