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Everest: Three more die amid overcrowding near summit

 

Three more climbers have died on Mount Everest, taking the death toll to seven in a week - more than the total for the whole of last year.

 

The three died of exhaustion while descending on Thursday. It comes amid traffic jams near the summit as record numbers make the ascent, despite calls to limit the number of climbing permits.

 

Nepal has issued 381 permits at $11,000 (£8,600) each for the spring climbing season at the world's highest peak.

Two Indian climbers - Kalpana Das, 52, and Nihal Bagwan, 27 - died while scaling back down the mountain on Thursday.

 

Local tour organiser Keshav Paudel told AFP news agency that Bagwan had been "stuck in the traffic for more than 12 hours and was exhausted".

 

A 65-year-old Austrian climber died on the northern Tibet side of the mountain.

An Indian and an American lost their lives on the mountain on Wednesday, while an Irish professor, Séamus Lawless, is presumed dead after falling on 16 May.

 

Conditions this year have also been worse than usual, with high winds leaving a large number of climbers a narrow time frame to reach the summit.

 

Five people are known to have died on Everest and one in Lhotse in the spring season last year.

The number of people climbing Everest in 2019 could exceed last year's record of 807 people reaching the summit.

The rising numbers of people climbing - and dying - on Everest has led for calls for permits to be limited.

 

Ben Fogle, the adventurer and television presenter who climbed the mountain last year, called for "London Marathon style lottery for climbing permits" in a Twitter post.

 

What this striking Everest photo tells us

 

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Mountaineer Nirmal Purja's photo of queues at Mount Everest has attracted attention around the world this week. The photo shows the last ridge Mount Everest's summit, from the southern, Nepali side. Climbers can also reach the summit via the northern, Tibetan side, but the southern route is much busier.

 

1- If you look carefully, you'll see there are two rows of climbers. Because there is only one fixed rope at the summit, climbers ascending and descending the summit all have to share the same rope.

 

2- The vast majority of Everest climbers use oxygen masks and cylinders at the summit - oxygen levels there are only about 30% what they are at sea level.

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-48395241

 

 

 

 

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32 minutes ago, TheBitch said:

I’ve just taken delivery of this...

 

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A photographic book of the highlands of Scotland. Some cracking pictures on first look. 

On page 32 if you look closely you can see a man with his cock in a Grouse. You might convince yourself that it's Alice Cooper. It's Mook. 

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13 hours ago, TheBitch said:

Beast of a day this one. Benn Alligin.

 

Torridon is take your breath away spectacular.

 

Had a brute of a walk up with the wind full in my face all the way up and was convinced I wasn’t gonna get over the ridge the other side to get over “The three horns of Alligin”

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Amazing.

 

I'll be back to rep this when I sort my membership out.

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7 hours ago, Champ said:

Great pics, Rich.

It looks like one of those days where the weather maybe wasn’t ‘perfect’ but somehow you end up appreciating the breaks in the clouds all the more

Yeah exactly that Cath. The clouds rolling in made it look moody.

 

Unlike today where I got absolutely beaten up for 4 hours on the top.  Had to take refuge between some rocks until the wind and rain died down to find my way to the top. I still strangely enjoyed it, it was one of those days where if you didn’t laugh you’d cry. 

 

Got in my first bothy too. 

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On 16/09/2019 at 05:10, Nelly-Torres said:

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Other reviews by the same person:

Blackpool - 3 piers. What's that about. 1 is enough for anyone. Caution, the Irish Sea is cold and wet

 Venice - Full of foreigners and the roads are flooded

London by Underground day tour - Really boring scenery, all looks the same.

Malaga - Waste of money taking my surfboard, nó waves. On the plus side, lots of fish and chip shops.

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Got out on my own today and it was superb.

Swerved the path off when I got to the snow level and headed route 1 up the Corrie to test out my crampon and ice axe skills. Didn’t need the crampons but did need the axe. About 200m from the top I had my dinner in a beautiful spot then the clouds rolled in and it went fucking awful. Didn’t get a single view at all, it was a total white out and I was laughing my cock off at the absurdity of it. Still a boss day out though. 

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3 minutes ago, TheBitch said:

Got out on my own today and it was superb.

Swerved the path off when I got to the snow level and headed route 1 up the Corrie to test out my crampon and ice axe skills. Didn’t need the crampons but did need the axe. About 200m from the top I had my dinner in a beautiful spot then the clouds rolled in and it went fucking awful. Didn’t get a single view at all, it was a total white out and I was laughing my cock off at the absurdity of it. Still a boss day out though. 

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Did you go up Ben Macdui?

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