"Death, butchery, chaos": the terrible testimony of a man on Everest

"I can not believe what I saw there," director Elia Saikaly said in a message
Instagram account, after doing
summit on Everest.

Saikaly managed to reach the top of the "roof of the world" for the third time, in a week that reached the number of
Deaths recorded in the

Everest

for problems caused by congestion of climbers.

"Death, Carnage, Chaos," said the filmmaker, who had planned to release a documentary about his adventure.

"I saw bodies lying on the road, inside the encampment, in four tents, people who tried to come in and who died, people who were dragging bodies, j 's. have walked on bodies, "he explained. "But I'm down, I'm safe," he added.

Today, an American mountaineer has died as a result of Everest, announced the Nepalese authorities, for which 11 mountaineers have already been killed on the "roof of the world" during this season.

This is 61-year-old Christopher John Kulish, who had reached the top of 8848 meters and yesterday had returned to the highest camp on the mountain. "He suddenly had a heart problem and died in South Port, according to the organizers of the expedition," said Mira Acharya of Nepal's Ministry of Tourism.

According to experienced mountaineers, Nepal's reluctance to limit the number of permits to climb into Everest has caused dangerous settlements and contributed to the high number of deaths.

The Nepalese government has issued a record 381 permits for the spring, priced at $ 11,000 apiece. Each license holder is accompanied by at least one guide, who explains the traffic jams.

Due to the influx, teams have to queue in the middle of glacial temperatures to reach the summit, exposing themselves to freezing or deadly altitude sickness.

This season is one of the deadliest since 2015: 11 people died on Everest. In addition, nine others died in "the 8,000" of the Himalayas.