How 2023 Became One of Mt. Everest's DEADLIEST Years Ever

Everest is faced with a problem...and it is reflected more so in this climbing season than ever before. With record number of permits, climbers, and Sherpas on the mountain, we saw the effects in the number of tragedies that occurred. We cover two more stories from the 2023 season, one of the deadliest years ever.

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[Maybeapotoo]

Lakpa Rita Sherpa, Pemba Tenzing Sherpa and Dachhiri Sherpa…. 3 amazing men who lost their lives on Sagarmāthā (Everest) while laying out the path for climbers this year. April 12th.

16th May: Phurba Sherpa passed away just above Camp 3. He was part of the the Nepal Army Mountain Clean-up campaign.

23rd May: Ang Kami Sherpa, Cook who died at Camp 2.

The line “We climb, so our children do not have too” comes to mind. I seem to recall it was spoken by Tenzing Norgay.

They risk their lives year after year so their families can eat and their children can get an education.

I just felt their names needed to be mentioned along side the people who they were there to guide and support.

[michaeltaylor]

Sherpa pay is ridiculous, I watched one video where the porters or Sherpa’s were moving some stuff and the people tipped them $2 usd, and all they wanted to be happy was $10usd and it just amazes me that these people will pay $60k+ but can’t tip people $10

[corbindallas]

I had a friend Summit this year. He's an experienced mountaineer and it still took everything that he had to get down. These people are crazy thinking that they can just go and do Everest because they put their mind to it. It takes willpower yes but also years of conditioning and experience.

[Unit]

The guy who climbed to the top, even after his incredible recovery from serious spinal injury, was inspirational in a way. However you'd think he would cherish his life and functional body and not risk hurting himself again.

[carolbentley]

I can tell you for a fact that there are climbers allowed to try for the summit that have absolutely no business being there! In 2014 I trekked to Mt Everest basecamp. I met a lady at our overnight lodges on several occasions. Her summiting group members were many days ahead of her. She was so unfit that she couldn’t even keep up with the amateur trekkers on the trail. She had paid for and was planning on trying for the summit. That was the year that an avalanche in the Khumbu Icefall killed 16 Sherpas so nobody was able to attempt to summit. Not only would she have had a very high risk of losing her life, she would have jeopardized the lives of climbers who were more capable of summiting. There needs to be a sanctioned system in place for qualifying all prospective summiting clients. Until then, it will only get worse.

[alanhyt]

Standing idle in a queue is unpleasant. But on Everest in the Death Zone, it's potentially fatal. It needs to stop.

[MiaMizuno]

10 years ago, in my 20s I also wanted to climb once K2 or Mt. Everest, because I needed a huge Goal and I wanted to be admired.
Over the years my life attitude changed...
1. I accepted I want to be a fit person which is already happening, but I prefer going to gym, having fun with sports on weekends and sign up for martial arts.

2. I can hike the Alps on safe paths with my family which is way of a life goal, spending time with family while going up the mountains where I do not fear risking anyones' lives (yes I am aware that on the safest paths risk is still there)
3. Seeing how the Sherpa suffer by that huge amount of waste and the Number of egotistic people who do not respect warnings and drag others to risk their lives, it became ridiculous and is not worth it.
Nah, just nah. I am happy my 20s stupidity thoughts are gone. Adventures can be made the moment you leave your own door

[lillyess]

They should limit climber permits, but raise prices to sky high rates, giving a large chunk of it to Sherpas and environmental initiatives. There also should be requirements that climbers have to meet like experience, fitness levels, age, etc.

[flisms]

I was thinking of trying to summit Everest. It should be a cake walk, I climb ladders all the time. But first I want to visit Titanic in a makeshift submersible.

[themobseat]

Maybe the corpses could be stacked on top of Everest, making it’s increased height attractive to more climbers, and thus generating more corpses.

[moonasha]

8:50 i think it's important to add. The summit push and descent is on a timer. If you run out of oxygen, you'll most likely collapse and die. In other words, if you're too slow, you die. That's the problem with untrained people attempting to summit Everest.

[anchovietonie]

i broke my spine in three places almost five years ago. yes, it’s incredible to see people with debilitating injuries do great things. but there is also strength in restraint, and in knowing that there is no reason to constantly push your body to the limit

[sourgummiez]

1, 200 PEOPLE?!?!? Even a couple hundred would make it pretty crowded, this is ridiculous

[lulabellegnostic]

Climbing permits should only be granted if you spend a season before your summit attempt cleaning up the mountain.

[wiadp]

When I hear about these deaths of people who leave their kids, wife etc. I personally think that it is totally egoistic and selfish from their side. I always loved mountains, I achieved hundred of peaks, collected many badges, but when my first kid was born I stopped it. I go together with my family to mountains on easy paths, but I would never thought about going alone on hardest mountains when I have kids to rise and protect. I changed my priorities even when there are still mamy targets that I wanted to achieve. I don't understand people who risk so much, having wife and kids just for their own targets.

[JosieJo]

I’m always skeptical when adventurers say they are doing something for charity or to bring awareness. No, they are doing it for themselves.

[procrastinationismyspecial]

If you’ve ever read Jon Krakauer’s book Into Thin Air, you’d immediately be discouraged from wanting to climb Everest. Even being the experienced mountaineer that the author is, the entire process of trekking up the mountain is described as incredibly grueling. Not to mention, the fact that many people in his hiking group that end up perishing when a storm occurs on the mountain makes his story incredibly harrowing to say the least.

[janetpitts]

Wow, there should be a limit on amount of people trying to climb at one time, im surprised how little respect some have for the mountain, leaving trash etc there!

[florian]

I like that you said "testing their luck" rather than "testing their skill"

[mpireoutdoors]

I've spent years outdoors. I can explain it; nature is so beautiful that it makes you feel certain that it cares for you, but in a moment something goes wrong and you realise you have fallen into the dream and deluded yourself. Sometimes you don't even realise you are falling because it's still so beautiful.