There is a gripping video on Instagram that depicts the traffic on Mount Everest and emphasizes the seriousness of the climb. The ten-year-old dream of scaling Mount Everest came true for Rajan Dwivedi, who shared a video on May 21 showing the treacherous terrain climbers face.
Mt. Everest Is Not A Joke!
After a harrowing incident on Tuesday, British climber Daniel Paterson and his Nepali Sherpa, Pastenji, were struck by falling ice while descending from the summit. “Everest isn’t a joke, and it’s a serious climb,” Dwivedi wrote on his social media account. He captured the congestion on a single rope line with climbers navigating both upward and downward traffic in his video.
Dwivedi wrote on Instagram, “This video shows what we face on a rope line and negotiating interchanges during the traffic for upstream and downstream.” The main reason is the weather window to avoid the fierce jet streams that could be 100-240mph. It was a nightmare for me to come down while a huge line of climbers was coming up to maximize the weather window.
The three hardest segments of the climb were detailed by him. Dwivedi noted that each year, around 500 climbers, including novices and novices, attempt to summit Everest, but only a handful of them succeed. Many climbers, he added, suffer from frostbite, snow blindness, and other severe injuries, as well as frostbite. Despite these challenges, Dwivedi was able to reach the summit at 6 am on May 19.
The Experience
The clip depicts the constant rush hour on Everest, which has been dubbed a “traffic jam” by people on social media.
A harrowing experience on Mount Everest was shared by mountain guide Vinayak Malla earlier. One video showed a long line of climbers before the cornice gave way, another showed the aftermath, and the third showed the patched route with folks passing by. He and his teammates narrowly escaped the life-threatening situation by taking a different route to reach the base camp.
Meanwhile, the latest climbers to be feared dead are Daniel Paterson, 39, and his guide Pastenji Sherpa, 23. The duo reached the summit on Tuesday as part of a group, but have not been heard from since, according to a BBC report. The expedition group revealed that the mishap occurred at Hilary Step, a perilous sloping rock face near the summit. The men reportedly tumbled down the sloping, vertical incline towards the Himalayas.
