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That's not the kind of people I'm referring to, I was talking about unqualified "climbers"[1], like those cited by John Oliver or some of those of the Rob Hall

• hodgesrm 7y ago
  Unqualified or unlucky? It's hard to say from the article you cited; bad weather and crowding also seem to have been factors. 8000m peaks have high rates of fatalities under the best of conditions. But this is true of any large mountain range. Take the Alps for example. On one day in the summer of 1979 12 people died on climbs around Chamonix, which is a single valley. It was a beautiful day with ideal climbing conditions around much of Mt. Blanc. I remember it well, because I was in the valley watching helicopters bringing down bodies all afternoon. Most of the deaths were on the Tour Ronde. [1] The uppermost of 3 climbing parties fell on a steep couloir and took out two parties below them. Perhaps the first party was unqualified but the second and third parties? [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tour_Ronde#Events_and_incidents https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tour_Ronde#Events_and_incident...