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A 1.6-mile stretch of slowly cascading ice just above Base Camp called the Khumbu Icefall. The Khumbu Icefall looks like a frozen waterfall. They're called the Icefall Doctors, and this year, they delayed Everest's climbing season by 12 days due to unsafe conditions on the Khumbu Icefall. Between 1953 and 2019, 45 people lost their lives on the Khumbu Icefall. Everset's history, 15 of the 18 total deaths were caused by acute mountain sickness, falls, and disappearances.
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More than 300 people have died climbing Everest since exploration first started in the early 1900s. Dead bodies on the route." Eleven people died climbing Mount Everest that spring, in what became the peak's deadliest climbing sprint in recent memory. Climbing the Seven Summits/@TENDIGUIDE/via ReutersHer memory is a grim reminder that removing dead bodies from Mount Everest is a pricey and potentially deadly chore, and one that is perhaps best left undone. Mountaineers line up as they make their way up a slope on Mount Everest on May 31, 2021.
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