Climbing Mount Everest

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Doesn’t someone on average once every three weeks fall off that bit and die?
 
I grew up reading Edmund Hillary's account of the first ascent and John Hunt's account of the logistics and dreamed of going to the Himalaya. But the magic has gone and now I've no wish to go there at all.
 
There are some fascinating books about how this has been over-commercialised. Jon Krakauer's Into Thin Air gives good insight. It looks from this, and news reports, as though matters have got a whole lot worse recently.
 

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