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Ameesha Chauhan, a Everest bottleneck survivor recovering from engorgement at the hospital, said mountaineers without basic skills should be excluded to avoid the recurrence of the deadly season this year on the highest peak in the world.
Ten people died in just over two weeks as a result of poor weather conditions, leaving mountain climbers waiting in long lines to the summit, risking exhaustion and to run out of oxygen.
Nepal has issued a record 381 Everest permits this season. Hundreds of people are not properly trained, make bad decisions and put "their lives in danger, as well as that of the Sherpa Guide," said Chauhan.
The 29-year-old Indian had to wait 20 minutes before getting off.
"I saw mountaineers without basic skills relying entirely on their Sherpa guides.The government should set the qualifying criteria," she told AFP. in Kathmandu All the toes of his left foot black and blue and his worn face by time.
"Only trained mountaineers should get permission to climb on Everest."
In addition to the 9 deaths of Everest mountaineers died on other peaks of the Himalayas, at 8,000 meters altitude, while there is one missing .
At least four deaths on the highest mountain in the world have been attributed to overcrowding of teams sometimes waiting for hours in the "death zone", where the cold is bitter, the air dangerously thin and perfidious terrain.
This year's record of Everest is the highest since 2014-2015, the day when huge earthquakes triggered devastating avalanches.
The crowd was laid bare on a photo taken last week by Nirmal Purja. , former Gurkha soldier, from a long line of climbers advancing to the summit.
The photo taken by the head of the charity Project Possible, which aims to climb the highest peaks in the world in excess of 1 48 000 meters in seven viral months from his Twitter account @nimsdai and highlighted the dangers in the midst of mania to climb Everest.
Update of #ProjectPossible . I summoned Everest at 5.30am and Lhotse at 3:45 pm despite heavy traffic. I am now at Makalu base camp. Will be going directly to the top of the base camp. I will update once Makalu is finished. Thank you for my support especially my sponsors. pic.twitter.com/mAiLESSEln
– Nimsdai (@nimsdai) May 23, 2019
"The oxygen of many mountaineers was exhausting," Chauhan said.
"Some mountaineers have died as a result of their own negligence, and they have insisted on reaching the summit, even if their oxygen is exhausted, putting their lives at risk," she said.
Another mountaineer, the "adventure filmmaker" Elia Saikaly, posted on Instagram Sunday that he had reached the summit of Everest and "can not believe what I'm doing. I saw up there.
"Death, Carnage, Chaos, Couples, Corpses on the Road and in Tents at Camp 4. People Saikaly wrote:
" Everything you read in the headlines played everything at our party at the top."
The Deadly Mountaineering Business
Mountaineering has become a major activity since Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay First Everest Climb in 1953, Mountain Becoming a Favorite of the List of "bucket"
Licenses issued in Nepal this season cost $ 11,000 each, providing the poor Himalayan country with indispensable currency.
At least 140 others were obtained permission to climb from the northern flank of Tibet
Although the final figures still have to be published, the season ends this week, but the record of Last year (807 people) would have reached the summit. [19659002] The dead included four mountaineers from India and one from the United States, Great Britain and Nepal. An Irish mountaineer is presumed dead after slipping and falling near the summit.
Another Austrian and Irish mountaineer died on the northern side of Tibet.
One of the Indians died on the Nepali side, 27 years old Nihal Bagwan had to wait more than 12 hours and died returning from the summit.
Donald Lynn Cash, 55, collapsed at the top while taking photos, while 55-year-old Anjali Kulkarni died while descending after reaching the summit.
The organizer of the Kulkarni Expedition, Arun Treks, said the intense traffic at the summit had delayed its descent and caused the tragedy.
"She had to wait a long time to get to the top and get off," said Thupden Sherpa. "She could not move on her own and died when the Sherpa guides took her away."
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