Traffic Jams Causing Deaths on Mount Everest
Massively long lines at Mount Everest's frigid summit partly due to a few days of good weather may have contributed to the deaths of seven climbers this week, news sources report.These crowds led to a deadly traffic jam. One of the mountaineers who died, 27-year-old Nihal Bagwan, of India, was "stuck in the traffic for more than 12 hours and was exhausted," Keshav Paudel, of Peak Promotion, a company that organizes tours on Everest, told Agence France-Presse.