KATHMANDU – Weak climbers being led up Mount Everest by expedition operators with insufficient experience are causing problems, a veteran mountain guide said on Sunday (June 4), after one of the deadliest climbing seasons in years on the world’s highest mountain. At least 12 climbers died and five are missing and feared dead on the 8,849m Mount Everest during this...
KATHMANDU – Weak climbers being led up Mount Everest by expedition operators with insufficient experience are causing problems, a veteran mountain guide said on Sunday , after one of the deadliest climbing seasons in years on the world’s highest mountain.
“Weakest clients with less experienced operators is part of the problem,” Mr Guy Cotter, 69, a noted guide from New Zealand who has climbed Everest five times, said in Nepali capital Kathmandu. Three sherpa climbers were killed when ice came crashing down on them on the lower reaches of the mountain in April and the rest of those who died succumbed to illness or exhaustion, government and hiking officials said.Nepal does regulate the climbing of Everest and its other Himalayan peaks, insisting that everyone gets a permit, for example. But Mr Cotter said the operators who guide clients up the mountain should meet minimum standards of equipment and staff.
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