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Mount Everest to be declared off-limits to inexperienced climbers, says Nepal

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Mount Everest to be declared off-limits to inexperienced climbers, says Nepal | World news | The Guardian

Nepalese officials say they will introduce regulations banning inexperienced climbers from attempting Mount Everest in an attempt to improve safety and maintain the “glory” of the summit. Kripasur Sherpa, the country’s tourism minister, said he hoped to implement the rules in time for the spring season, which usually sees hundreds of mountaineers from across the world attempt to reach the 29,029ft (8,848 metres) summit of the world’s highest peak. Permits to climb Everest will only be given to those who can prove they have already scaled mountains that are higher than 6,500 metres, officials said. Disabled, old and very young people also face bans.
 
Why hasn't this happened earlier?

You can go to Google or Bing and image search for bodies on Mount Everest. Many of them are so high up that it's nearly impossible to retrieve them, so they just get left there. They even use the bodies as land marks for people trying to climb the mountain. It's extremely creepy.
 
You can go to Google or Bing and image search for bodies on Mount Everest. Many of them are so high up that it's nearly impossible to retrieve them, so they just get left there. They even use the bodies as land marks for people trying to climb the mountain. It's extremely creepy.

I've seen that before! Very sad and disturbing.
 
I did not know there were bodies laying around to the way of Mont Everest!

One thing I will not do in this life (optimistically hinting that I am otherwise physically capable of doing it ;) )
 
I did not know there were bodies laying around to the way of Mont Everest!

One thing I will not do in this life (optimistically hinting that I am otherwise physically capable of doing it ;) )

The problem is that too many inexperienced climbers were 'short roped' to the summit - basically dragged along by a short tethered lead rope tied to an experienced guide.

As long as they had the money, the expedition companies accepted them.

The new rules won't change anything - forged documents are easy to make as there is no international organization that controls world climbing successes.

John Krakauer's book about the most deadly season on Everest, Into Thin Air, exposed a lot of this garbage several years ago.
 
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