Fuck that!
The ones at the summit have to wait for hours to get back down because of the crowds going up!
As many have died in the past week as in an average year!
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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