‘It Was Like a Zoo:’ Death on an Unruly, Overcrowded Everest - The New York Times

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Climbers were pushing and shoving to take selfies. The flat part of the summit, which he expected at approximately the dimensions of Ping-Pong tables, became packed with 15 or 20 human beings. To rise up there, he had to wait hours in a line, chest to chest, one puffy jacket after the following, on an icy, rocky ridge with a several-thousand foot drop.


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