Everest, the theater of the biggest bottling in the world

The image impresses. It was taken by Nirmal Purja "MBE", a mountaineer who plans to climb the 14 peaks of the Himalayas that exceed 8,000 meters above sea level and shows the madness that has reached the highest peak in the world.

Some 200 mountaineers wait their turn at the edge of Everest to reach 8,848 meters. Many of them with oxygen tubes to elevate the adverse conditions in a place where those who die die, mainly in the descent.

Gyanendra Shrestha, a senior official of the Nepalese government, said Himalayan weather that day, a Wednesday, many had to wait two hours to climb to the top, in good weather.

Nirmal Purja (pictured, top) felt that the number of mountaineers was even higher: around 320. There is still no official figures.

Mountaineers climbed the Collado Sur from Camp 4, located approximately 8000 meters above sea level.

In the spring, the tourism department granted 381 licenses to 44 teams. Some 500 Sherpas (from the Himalayas) accompany mountaineers.