Experienced climber says fresh and inexperienced Everest mountaineers lead to the rise in death toll

Guwahati: The huge rush of Everest climbers and the competition to accomplish the feat of climbing the highest peak in the world have led to an increase in the death of Everest climbers. This very fact has been claimed by experienced seasoned mountaineer Nick Hollis. Nick, speaking about his Everest venture says how stunned and surprised he was to see so many new faces among the climbers of the mountain and how inexperienced climbers have led to the increase in the death toll of the Mountaineers.

Nick Hollis is a 45-year-old British climber who has a record of conquering the Everest and completing all Seven Summits of the world recently. This latest feat of the mountaineer puts him in an elite group of around 500 people globally and this elite group comprises of those achiever climbers who have scaled the highest mountains on all seven continents.

Hollis said, “What I hadn’t expected to see was so many bodies of climbers who’d died either that day or the day before in an interview at his home in southern England.”

According to a statement released by the Nepalese officials, 11 people have died during their Everest summit this season of whom 9 have died on the Nepali side and two other on the Tibetan side. With this massive death rate of the Mountaineers, it becomes the deadliest season since 2015.

The latest pictures of the Everest mountaineers released around the world depicting queues of climbers inching their way up Everest’s south ridge has created much of a sensation and worry for the growing number of mountaineers and their increasing death rate.

Hence, in this context, Nick further adds that, “It’s no exaggeration to say you are walking over bodies.”

It is thus, a high time that the inexperienced and untrained mountainers should be prevented from opting for the summit as climbing up to the Mount Everest is not a child's play after all.

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