Everest bottleneck eased
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NEPALESE climbing specialists will fix a second rope at the Hillary Step, a dangerous “death zone” bottleneck near the Mount Everest summit, to ease congestion on the world’s highest mountain, a hiking group said on Thursday.
Hundreds of climbers from around the world attempt to scale the 8,850-meter Everest summit every year, but a 12-meter near vertical wall of rock at about 8,790 meters often causes major problems. Exhausted climbers are forced to wait there for several hours for their turn to climb up or come down a single rope, exposed to risks of thin air in what is known as the “death zone.”
Dawa Steven Sherpa, a member of Expedition Organizers’ Association, said separate ropes will be fixed also at obstacles like the Geneva Spur, Yellow Band and Balcony to ease the congestion.
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