Up first, honoring the service and sacrifice of americas fallen. People across the country are pause on this memorial day to pay tribute to those who paid the ultimate price. On the Hallowed Ground of Arlington National cemetery family members are leaving messages and mementos on the graves of their loved ones. In the solemn stillness, tears, hugs and moments of reflection. Vice president mike pence placed a wreath at tomb of the unknown soldier. In his remarks he shared the stories of three Service Members who died fighting for this country. We can never repay the debt of gratitude that we owe to the men and women who have given their all to preserve our freedom, but we can honor them, remember them, cherish their family, and this we will do, not just this day, but every day, and so long as our nation continues to produce men and women of such selfless courage and patriotism, i know that that freedom will ring for ourselves and our posterity. Now the Vice President also mentioned the
to what is believed to be altitude sickness, and that is actually what caused most of the fatalities this year. the nepalese government is saying that this was because of the backlog is baseless, but mount nearing experts that we ve been talking to lent saying it couldn t be one of the key factors and that the nepalese government needs to do more. this year they issued a record number of permits and there s concerns about the experience level of climbers that are growing up and about how commercial this ten tire expedition has about, and one mountaineer, pope works we were talking to is very experienced saying unless something is done he be a tis pats that every year is going to prove to be even deadlier for those attempting to reach the world s highest summit. the with me now from evrest base camp is adrianne ballinger, he runs his own exbedays
and this is funny to say as an operator myself, but we definitely need government regulation of commercial operators on the mountain. we need to require certain levels of experience and safe measures, things like communication and oxygen supplies, and if a company can t provide those, they can t operate on the mountain. aidian ballinger, thank you so much. you re there and we appreciate it. so sorry again that we ve had to see these deaths. thank you, adrianne. absolutely. thank you so much. pretty remarkable to hear from him right there at the base camp. ahead fours, a hiker lost for 17 days a. she is found after officials call off the search. her amazing story of survival is next. plus, get this.
zone. can you talk about conditions there because you re already dealing with one-third of the oxygen that you would get at sea level. that s right. we call any part of the mountain above 26,000 feet, we call the death zone and that s because humans aren t meant to exist there, so even when using bottled oxygen and supplemental oxygen there s only a certain number of hours that we can actually survive up there before our bodies start to shut down, and so that means if you get caught in a traffic jam above 26,000 feet and you can t get to more oxygen or can t get down to thick airport consequences can be really severe, obviously ultimately death. adrianne, how did this happen, because there is communication from that so-called death zone down to base camp, et cetera? sure. i don t get to how we goat a point where so many more people were allowed to go up or the green light was given that, objection you can climb now