for me, it is a magical place. i have enormous reverence and respect for mount everest. i have seen how beautiful and magic it can be. but i ve also seen the tragedy, the death they can result from being on mount everest. in the 19505, there were only like four or five western tourists who came into the everest region. by 2019, we have thousands, more than 35,000 tourists, who came to the everest region. to put that in perspective, this is a region with about 7000 people, so it is five times the population that actually lives there. in 2019, nearly 900 people reached the mountain s summit. but bad weather and a short winter to reach the peak made it one of the deadliest seasons on record, with at least 11 casualties. some of the slower climbers held up those behind them, so the slowest person dictated the pace. fortunately, because our team s
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