This year has become the mountain’s deadliest climbing season since 2015.
As a Mount Everest cleaning crew collected food wrappers, oxygen tanks and other garbage discarded by this year’s record horde of mountaineers, they discovered something far more disturbing in the melting snow ― human remains.
Hundreds of people have died on Everest since the 1920s and many of the bodies remain frozen on the mountain, unreachable without extraordinary risk and expense. It wasn’t clear when the latest deaths occurred, according to Reuters. Days before Kulish’s death, British climber Robin Haynes Fisher, 44, died in the so-called death zone, a point near the mountain’s summit named for its dangerously low oxygen levels.
Last month, a photo taken by climber Nirmal Purja went viral online and throughout international media outlets, showing a long queue of mountaineers winding up to the summit.
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