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Now look this is not an easy thing to asend obviously. but come on. 240. let's just take a look at it. it doesn't look to scale like a big deal. you're starting off as something that's going to be higher than anything anybody else is going to be on. you don't want to be in a log jam up in the death zone. it starts here at base camp, all right? now this is what it looks like to you. you have all of these people. 18,000 feet. 50% of oxygen at sea level. it's all about thin air and getting the body used to it. what you can't control are the conditions. so now you're not at your best. you have fre...

Getting adequate sherpa support you're not getting enough oxygen you not getting the right strategy or leadership to prepare you to go into the death zone to climb to 9000 meters above sea level and to understand exactly what you're getting yourself into and it also having the leadership to educate you on when enough is enough you know you see climbers that push themselves beyond the limit by some many people that were climbing up to the summit and they really should have been turned around i tried to coax people into turning around saying you know there's there's no shame you know and being h...

But it is the death zone near the hillary state where the congestion is most dangerous to resume officials have promised to implement safety barriers but. the number of climbers who come to our mountains is actually quite low compared to other countries we're not going to fix or limit the number of climbers we're trying to get more tourists and climbers to come to nepal by giving them better facilities and safety we want to encourage them to come for both pleasure and fame within this . plea not operations gets underway on everest it's not just rubbish they're collecting for more bodies were p...

Blizzards, avalanches, that's why you usually end up having a death event. since 1922, the year that climbers have started recording the deaths, you had more than 200, okay? and why? well, most of them die up on the peak, that makes sense. their bodies are frozen. you can't recover them because it's too dangerous and too expensive a task to retrieve them, frankly. now most die and as i said earlier in what is called the death zone. above 26,000 feet. why is that? well, obviously it's the highest and the most dangerous. we're not supposed to be there. the body's cells literally start to die. yo...

>> the nepalese government has discretion. they issued 381 this year nepal is a very poor country. they're trying to get revenue. it's tough. >> as a man that has been there and understands this, what is the biggest problem? the crowds or something else? >> it can be a combination of things. the weather can be fierce. think of it as a single file line going to the summit. you can't go around people. if the weather closes in, you have a lot of people there, only a couple day there's, you can get a traffic jam. you're on the clock when you're climbing and your oxygen is ticking down. so what hap...