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Not to be callous, but dying climbing Mt. Everest isn't random. Climbing Mt. Everest has a lower survival rate than stage 1 cancer. Chance of death is about 1
by wheels 9y ago
Not to be callous, but dying climbing Mt. Everest isn't random. Climbing Mt. Everest has a lower survival rate than stage 1 cancer. Chance of death is about 10%.
- LewisJEllis 9y agoNonsense, please check your sources; you're off by nearly an order of magnitude. Death rate throughout Everest's entire history is around 4%, and around 2% from 2000 to present. That's also skewed a bit by 2014 and 2015 being particularly bad years; it was 1.4% between 2000 and 2010, and 2016 and 2017 are both around 1%. If you have a 10% figure in your head, you must be thinking of K2 or another more dangerous mountain.
- mathgeek 9y agoWikipedia shows that from 2011-16, there were roughly 2000 folks who tried to climb to the summit of Everest, and about 70 deaths on the mountain (including those not trying to reach the summit).