Successful summit of Mt. Everest of spring 2017, has been completed with some new records successes, deaths as well as controversies to the media across the world.
For this climbing season, the department of Tourism, had permitted 375 climbers of 42 expedition’s team for climbing of Mt. Everest from the Nepal South col side. Including guides and supporting Sherpas, around 800 were eligible to climb the Everest. Among them, only 449 including 190 foreigners, 259 Nepalese guides and climbers, had successfully reached to the top of the world. By 2017, the recorded Mt. Everest summiteers reached 5328, since the Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay Sherpa summit the roof of the world on 29 May, 1953. The climbing session started after the team of rope fixing climbers opened a climbing route to the Mt. Everest summit on May 2017.
To the closure of climbing season, five climbers has lost their lives. The Nepalese climbers: Mr. Min Bahadur Sherchan, who aimed to become an oldest man to summit the Everest at age of 86 also lost his life while preparing for his summit. The renowned Swiss alpinist Mr. Ueli Steck also died while acclimatizing for an attempt of the Hornbein route on the West Ridge of Everest without supplemental oxygen. Likewise, the American doctor Roland Yearwood, Slovak climber Vladimir Strba and an Indian climber Ravi Kumar died at the area marked as “death zone”, where oxygen levels falls dangerously low.
During Spring Everest Expedition, the South African mountaineer Ryan Seasn Davy was caught while attempeting to climb Everest without getting a permit from the government. Hence, Mr. Davy has been banned to climb in Nepal for 10 years. Likewise, the Polish climber Januz Adam Adamski traversed Everest without receiving permission to climb the mountain from the Southern side or Nepal side. Mr. Januz climbed the Mt. Everest from the Tibetan side and came down to the southern base camp in Nepal. Hence, he is also banned from climbing mountains in Nepal for 10 years.
Similarly, the media also highlighted the news about the Hillary Step. British climber Tim Mosedale, who climbed Mt. Everest for the six time this season, was the first mountaineer to say that Hillary Step has disappeared. “It’s definitely not there anymore”, as he told to BBC News. However, the Department of Tourism, citing icefall doctors, refuted the report, stating that Hillary Step is still there.
For the spring expedition, nearly 840 members has obtained climbing permit from Nepal Government for different mountains. Among which, 9 climbers successfully scaled Mt. Annapurna, 95 climbed Mt. Lhotse, 26 summit the Mt. Makalu and 59 stepped to Mt. Dhaulagiri.
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