Originally Posted by Paul_M
Originally Posted by alwaysoutdoors
The evening news just reported on it. Supposedly the local government is getting blamed for several hiking deaths because they issued so many permits to climb. Ummm.,, ok

There actually just might be some truth in that. Saw this pic on reddit.
200 people waiting in line to summit.
https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/bs5mya/queue_of_200_people_at_the_top_of_mt_everest/



Actually, there are two lines there......ascending and descending. Not that it makes much difference.........the deaths in that area this year were from people descending after summiting.