Nepal tightens controls of climbers after Everest brawl

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/nepal/10653549/Nepal-tightens
-controls-of-climbers-after-Everest-brawl.html

Can't get away from the obnoxious tourists anywhere...

"Mount Everest has been climbed by more than 4,000 people since the historic
ascent in 1953 by Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay Sherpa."

FYI: With all the people trying to climb Mount Everest over the years, it
has also become the world's highest cemetery.

http://climbing.about.com/od/mountainclimbing/a/Death-On-Mount-Everest.htm

"Many climbers have died on Mount Everest since 1921 and over 200 of them
are still on the mountain. Some are buried in crevasses. Some fell down
remote parts of the mountain. Some are buried in snow and ice. Some lie in
the open. And some sit beside the popular routes up Everest. There is no
firm count of the exact number of climbers that have died on Mount Everest,
but as of 2012 it is about 235 people."

"Most bodies still remain on the mountain even in cases of easy recovery."

"The annual death rate is remarkably unchanged over the history of climbing
on Mount Everest. One death occurs for every ten successful ascents--a
significant number of climbers who reach the summit die on their descent.
Most climbers who die on Everest are generally physically fit and in the
prime of their life between the ages of 30 and 50."

By Epictetus