Videos of overcrowding and “traffic jams” at over 8,800 metres have gone viral (Image: Getty) Despite the difficulties - and fatalities - of reaching the altitude of 8,848 metres above sea level, videos of overcrowding and “traffic jams” have gone viral, instead of where one would expect to be rewarded with peace and loneliness. With more and more people visiting it each year, Mount Everest has grown increasingly polluted, with contamination of the local watershed, which has now begun to threaten the health of local people who use it as an important water source. “They all say it's lonely at the top.
But when you actually start climbing to the top of the world, it’s far from lonely. In fact, it can be very, very crowded,” said Sanya Kundra to Mint , who climbed up to the Everest Base Camp in 2024. function loadOvpScript(){let el=document.
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