NEW HEIGHTS: THE RISE AND RISE OF EVEREST'S TOURISM

NEW HEIGHTS: THE RISE AND RISE OF EVEREST'S TOURISM

Tourist attraction: Mount Everest's peak
Tourist attraction: Mount Everest's peak
The latest deaths of Mount Everest have raised more questions over the commercialism of climbing the highest mountain in the world.
Just a few decades ago, scaling Everest was a feat attempted by only a handful of hardy and experienced mountaineers, trained to the highest fitness levels.
However, it would seem that now almost anyone could potentially attempt one of the toughest challenges known to man.
It has become a booming tourist industry in its own right, boosting the economy of Nepal, particularly during the climbing season from late March to the first week in June.
Hundreds of people attempt Everest every year and about 4,000 have climbed it since Sir Edmund Hillary of New Zealand and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay first scaled it in 1953.
Anyone with the money to spare could sign up with one of the many tour operators that arrange trekking trips.
Nepali mountain officials say about 200 people will attempt to scale the summit this weekend when the next safe window of weather is expected to allow safe ascent.
Due to an increase in the number of climbers in recent years, it is now prone to overcrowding, especially around the area of Hillary Step - a rockface neat the Nepal-side of the peak - where there is a bottle neck of ascending and descending climbers.
According to experts, because some people might have paid up to tens of thousands of pounds to take part in the challenge, climbers are taking risks when conditions are poor and time is running out for them to ascend.
One of the worst disasters encountered at the mountain was during the 1996 season when 16 people died climbing Everest - eight of them on May 11 alone.


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