The Truth About Everest Traffic Jams What’s Really Happening on the World’s Highest Mountain
Before sunrise reaches the razor-thin ridges of the Himalayas, a long line of headlamps begins to move slowly upward in the darkness. Climbers, roped together like beads on a single fragile thread, inch forward on fixed lines toward the summit of Mount Everest. High above 8,000 meters, where oxygen is scarce and decisions become life-or-death, the mountain is no longer…