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There's massive traffic jams. people are pushing themselves. they try to summit. instead of summiting, they kill themselves. it's turning into a bad thing, i think. people should look into it. >> shepard: this photo shows the line of people waiting to get to the summit last wednesday. i'm sure you've seen this on social media or tv. insanity here, this is in what they call the death zone. some climbers reportedly waited more than two hours before they were make it the final push to get to the top and take that selfie. now some mountains are calling on the government to limit the number of peop...

Zone call that because the levels of oxygen there are so low. every breath you take in the death zone only gives you a third of the oxygen that you would get at sea level, so you have to be climbing with oxygen tanks and so these long waiting hours may have contributed to the deaths that we did see, at least to most of them. and a lot of these climbers aren't dying on the way up. you can make it to that goal, you can make it to that summit. it's when you come back down, that's when people's bodies tend to succumb to altitude sickness. a lot of debate right now as to whether or not nepal needs ...

Itself. but it's not just the altitude sickness that ends up killing people. you, of course, have people who fall down, you have various other illnesses and things that can happen as well. but another of the main challenges has been what people are calling this overcrowding phenomenon that really some expert climbers will tell you prove to be very lethal this climbing season. because as we saw in those now iconic photographs that came out on social media, you had that backlog inside that death zone where the level of oxygen are so low. and climbers would make it to the top, they'd make it to t...

Hiking season for the summit of evere everest because of the level of fatalities and because of the issues that arose from all of this backlog that took place. the photographs, the long lines of people waiting inside the death zone. called that because the levels of oxygen there are so low. every breath you take in the death zone only gives you a third of the oxygen you'd get at sea level. you have to be climbing with oxygen tanks. these long waiting hours may have contributed to the deaths that we did see, at least to moat of them. a lot of these climbers aren't dying on the way up. you can m...

Arrest, but he just hit his goal. nepal's government issued more than 375 permits this year. the most ever in a single year. and there's just as many guides that go up with those permit holders. the big focus now on what is known as the death zone according to the locals. it's considered the most dangerous part of the entire climb. the peak is 29,035 feet above sea level. the death zone starts just above 26,000 feet. the highest camp, camp 4, is just below that zone. that's where this man died after descending from the summit. one man that turned around at camp 4 because of a lack of oxygen, s...