![]() ![]() Expedition companies are blaming overcrowding on the mountain, saying the extra time climbers had to spend in the death zone led to the fatalities.īurke has climbed Everest three times and summited once. ![]() Donald Lynn Cash, a 55-year-old from Utah, "collapsed as soon as he reached the summit" and died there, according to The Kathmandu Post. Some succumbed to dehydration and exhaustion after summiting. Last week, at least 11 people died climbing Everest, the tallest peak in the world at 29,029 feet (or 5.5 miles) above sea level. "Your body is breaking down and essentially dying," Everest climber Shaunna Burke told Business Insider. At that altitude, the air has so little oxygen that the body starts to die, minute by minute and cell by cell. If climbers want to summit Mount Everest, they have to brave its "death zone," the part of the mountain above 8,000 meters.
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