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Everest four times. hes experienced a lot with what he calls the death zone, thats the part of the mountain where oxygen is dangerously low and earlier he told our colleague martin fa savidge his thoughts how high traffic in the death zone might relate to the recent deaths. >> theres a confluence of factors that have all come together this year in a perfect deadly storm on evert. nepal issued a record number of permits to foreigners of 381 permits plus they require a guide for each foreigner. th...

People perhaps than you have time? >> yeah, theres a confluence of factors that have all come together this year with the perfect deadly storm on everest. the record number of permits to foreigners of 381 permits, plus they require a sherpa guide for each foreigner. that means theres 800 people just on the nepal side. then it moves off amazingly in the middle of may and opens up whats called the weather windows or summit windows. last year there were 11 consecutive days, the longest on record. t...