As Everest climbing season enters full swing, the week began with the news of two deaths and two climbers missing but one of the most depressing scenes was witnessed on the mountain’s South Col. On Monday, May 20, Indian mountaineer Rajan Dwivedi shared his views of a frantic push for camp 4 near the summit . The explorer, who had been planning his expedition for 10 years, said the climb brought “mixed feelings”.
Filming the fixed ropes on Yellow Bands - named for the striped limestone steps on the Lhotse Face - he shared the pitifully slow progress. In a viral Instagram post, Rajan showed hundreds of mountaineers in summit suits, roped in and going nowhere. “I saw many climbers in quite precarious situation hanging on the rope and their Sherpas struggling to pull them down,” he wrote.
In an update on May 21 he described seeing climbers in a “sleepy/zombie state”. “They were shaking and crying causing a traffic jam.” A post shared by Rajan Dwivedi (@everester.
raj) The string of mountaineers is the kind of phenomenon that has been causing mountaineers to rethink climbing Everest. After a condensed summit window in 2019 caused similar conditions, which were captured in a photo as “Traffic Jam on Everest”, some have said Everest is too busy. UK author Iain Cameron dubbed it the “worst kind of adventure capitalism”.
In a response shared via social media site X, glaciologist and researcher Cameron said it was not a mountain on his list. “I’m fit and a.
