How Mount Everest become an overcrowded tourist destination - The
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Interest in the mountain spiked amid a Cold war thaw, the commercialization of climbing and a best-selling book.
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Learning With: '''It Was Like a Zoo”: Death on an Unruly
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Overcrowded Mount Everest expeditions are ruining the mountainside
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Over-tourism and tragedy in Nepal
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How Mount Everest became a multimillion-dollar business - The Hustle
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Nepal's Perplexing New Everest Rules » Explorersweb
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Dozens Came Down With Covid-19 on Everest. Nepal Says It Never
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Safety concerns increase due to overcrowding at Mount Everest
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Mount Everest Height, Location, Map, Facts, Climbers, & Deaths
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An Everest season like no other in Nepal amid a deadly pandemic
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Long Lines and Overcrowding Are Creating a Deadly Climbing
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Nepal issues record 454 Mount Everest climbing permits
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Inexperienced, unfit climbers at the root of overcrowding on Mount
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We Can Make Everest Safer. Too Bad No One's Trying.
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Climate change to blame for up to 17 deaths on Mount Everest