I dabble in mountaineering, mostly in the Cascades, it’s an amazing sport. Everest has an appeal to it of course but the last few years that has dropped to zer

I dabble in mountaineering, mostly in the Cascades, it’s an amazing sport. Everest has an appeal to it of course but the last few years that has dropped to zero. I can’t imagine what it would be like to get stuck in a line like that at the summit. I’m trying to think of a fair solution here, because there are a lot of moving parts. Lower the number of permits / raise prices of legitimate permits too much and the black market flourishes. Not to mention the people who work in that sector of Nepalese tourism suffer greatly. Maybe a fitness test, or proof of past mountaineering experience. But that again seems to open up another can of worms.