Mt. Everest experiencing overpopulation

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-05-...erest/11149420

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Three Indian and one Irish climber are among the seven who have died descending Mount Everest this week, more than the entire total of fatalities over the whole of last year. More than 120 climbers scaled Everest on Thursday, but some of them were caught in the crowd of people on the slopes, leading to exhaustion, dehydration and death. Former British soldier Nirmal Purja shared a photograph of the long queue to the summit on Twitter, showing exactly how crowded the world's tallest mountain can become during the short climbing season. Nepal has issued permits to 379 climbers on Mount Everest in the season, which ends this month. Between five and ten climbers die on Mount Everest in an average climbing year.

This whole Everest thing is just a farce now. They are going to have to change the name to something more relevant one day. Maybe Mt. Boulevard. And build a morgue as well. Can't leave all those bodies lying around like litter. And put a Starbucks up there. Get people out of the cold. The people who hired a helicopter to drop them up next to the summit had the right idea.

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