Current Event #5 T3 “‘It Was Like a Zoo’: Death on an Unruly, Overcrowded Everest”

In summary of the article “‘It Was Like a Zoo’: Death on an Unruly, Overcrowded Everest” by  Kai Schultz, Jeffrey Gettleman, Mujib Mashal, and Bhadra Sharma. In this article, Ed Dohring explained some of his trip up Mount Everest. He said that when he got to the top, there was a long like on an icy terrain with a thousand-foot drop. There was even a spot where he had to step over a body of someone who had just died. When he finally got to the flat summit, there were over 20 people crowded into an area he described as the size of 2 ping pong tables put together. “It was like a zoo,”  he said in his interview. This season was by far one of the most dangerous.
In my opinion, this is a crazy situation. With the increasing number of tourists climbing Everest, of course, there will be more deaths. The fact that there were so many people they needed a line, and the top was packed, is crazy. Especially when you think about how you have only a limited time up there. If you run out of oxygen while you're in the line, the best you can hope for is to see the summit before you die. Also, how did 20 people fit in an area the size of 2 ping-pong tables? I think that if we limited the number of people who could go from the last camp to the summit to a smaller number, the death count might be less. But that’s just my opinion. What’s yours?

Schultz, Kai, et al. “'It Was Like a Zoo': Death on an Unruly, Overcrowded Everest.” The New York Times, The New York Times, 26 May 2019, www.nytimes.com/2019/05/26/world/asia/mount-everest-deaths.html?module=inline.

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