When stupidity reaches highs!

[sen-no-sen]

Amateurism, queues, falls ... This month of May, conducive to the ascent of the summit, was particularly deadly. Mountaineers testify.

The photo went around the world. There is a long queue of about one hundred climbers along the ridge that reaches the summit of Everest at about 8 848 meters. The season for the ascent of the roof of the world, in May, has just ended with a record of eleven deaths, a record since 2015 where avalanches had killed eighteen mountaineers. If incidents are frequent at this altitude (falls of serac, weather, acute mountain sickness ...), this season has particularly attracted the crowds at the summit of Everest. This year, Nepal has issued 381 climbing license (against 346 in 2018) and China 140, figures that must be doubled since each climber is accompanied by at least one sherpa.

https://www.lepoint.fr/art-de-vivre/sur-l-everest-les-derives-du-tourisme-d-altitude-04-06-2019-2316886_4.php

Consequences of globalization and individualism, there has been a real "race to Everest " .
Number of mountaineers at the bite me the knot embarks on the ascent of the highest mountain in the world despite common sense, respect for places and security ... all this to shine in society and say "I did it" ... pathetic!

[bleusideral]

It is really lamentable and unconscious of such practices, besides the useless deaths, the pollution well represented by the 2e image but still far from the reality, the journeys beyond 7000m are littered with empty oxygen bottles and .. ..human corpse, physically impossible for the living to bring them down. I love climbing in the mountains, but there ....
Waste, we also talk about Mont Blanc, also the Mayor of St.Gervais, wants to limit (or has already implemented the measure) the number of mountaineers at the top ...