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To what is believed to be altitude sickness, and that is actually what caused most of the fatalities this year. the nepalese government is saying that this was because of the backlog is baseless, but mount nearing experts that weve been talking to lent saying it couldnt be one of the key factors and that the nepalese government needs to do more. this year they issued a record number of permits and theres concerns about the experience level of climbers that are growing up and about how commercial...

And this is funny to say as an operator myself, but we definitely need government regulation of commercial operators on the mountain. we need to require certain levels of experience and safe measures, things like communication and oxygen supplies, and if a company cant provide those, they cant operate on the mountain. >> aidian ballinger, thank you so much. youre there and we appreciate it. so sorry again that weve had to see these deaths. thank you, adrianne. >> absolutely. thank you so much. >...

Zone. can you talk about conditions there because youre already dealing with one-third of the oxygen that you would get at sea level. >> thats right. we call any part of the mountain above 26,000 feet, we call the death zone and thats because humans arent meant to exist there, so even when using bottled oxygen and supplemental oxygen theres only a certain number of hours that we can actually survive up there before our bodies start to shut down, and so that means if you get caught in a traffic j...