Mount Everest Overcrowding Causes Lethal Conditions
- 5 years ago
Mount Everest Overcrowding
Causes Lethal Conditions Officials have confirmed that
four mountaineers died this week
while climbing Mount Everest. Anjali Kulkarni, Kalpana Dash and Don Cash died
while descending the mountain and Nihal Bagwan
died at the balcony area before the summit. All of the climbers had been subjected
to a queue of over 200 people attempting
to reach the mountain’s peak. The queue stretched from the final base camp,
which sits at an elevation of 8,000 meters,
to the final 8,848 meter summit. The area is known as the “death zone” because
the lack of oxygen available makes it extremely
dangerous to stay for a prolonged amount of time. Danduraj Ghimire, director general of
Nepal’s tourism department, said the human
traffic jam was due to bad weather conditions. Danduraj Ghimire,
via ‘CNN’
Causes Lethal Conditions Officials have confirmed that
four mountaineers died this week
while climbing Mount Everest. Anjali Kulkarni, Kalpana Dash and Don Cash died
while descending the mountain and Nihal Bagwan
died at the balcony area before the summit. All of the climbers had been subjected
to a queue of over 200 people attempting
to reach the mountain’s peak. The queue stretched from the final base camp,
which sits at an elevation of 8,000 meters,
to the final 8,848 meter summit. The area is known as the “death zone” because
the lack of oxygen available makes it extremely
dangerous to stay for a prolonged amount of time. Danduraj Ghimire, director general of
Nepal’s tourism department, said the human
traffic jam was due to bad weather conditions. Danduraj Ghimire,
via ‘CNN’