Will anyone sue Nepal for issuing so many permits to climb Mt. Everest

[question everything]

that many die because of traffic jam?

Scary, really.

[HopeAgain]

1. Kinda sounds

like there's an assumption of risk element here. People with the financial wherewithal to buy the gear and plan the trip, but not the cognitive wherewithal to understand they aren't prepared to do it.

[malaise]

2. They should sue their fellow travelers for

shoving and pushing to get selfies.
Additionally many of these recent climbers have no effin' experience.
Money and no sense don't mix well.

[LakeArenal]

3. No. No cure for stoopid.

If climbing over dead bodies doesn’t deter them....🤷🏼?♀️

[UniteFightBack]

13. If that stopped people than nobody would climb Everest. nt

[Xolodno]

4. Let natural selection take its course.

....particularly when it comes to the wealthy. Some think money = smart. Nature is proving them wrong.

[meadowlander]

5. There are a limited and unpredictable number of days

When the weather will allow you to summit. The problem is when theres a long period jn between and groups pile up at the base camps. Theres no way for Nepal to police this. Its not like the cops have an Everest beat. Hence the need for peolle to exercise common sense or accept the consequences.

[NCjack]

6. Raise the price of a permit. Require a refundable deposit for rescue, dead or alive.

Increase every week until crowding is eliminated.

[fescuerescue]

12. The permit already cost $11,000

and the total cost of the climb is about $100k. ALl these climbers are very very wealthy.

I like your idea, but I suspect that if you make the cost much more expensive (say $100k), then only unprepared but extremely wealthy folks would climb. (younger fit and qualified, but not quite rich enough would be excluded)

All in all, I think these climbs need to be cut way way back.

[NCjack]

17. $11,000 is high for you and me, but obviously that price is much too low. Start at $100K for the

fee, and for each week that it does not thin the herd, double it. For a thrill that is better than sex and challenges one's very life, $1 million may be a bargain.

[Spider Jerusalem]

19. Rescue is generally not possible at that altitude

too high and the air is too thin for helicopters to operate safely, for the most part (helicopters will land to evacuate people from a camp eleven thousand feet below the summit); rescue by other climbers is also very difficult since at that altitude the body is slowly dying even with supplemental oxygen--this is part of why other climbers don't/can't stop to help someone in distress; the most likely outcome is more than one death. It's also why people who die on Everest tend to stay there, on the spot they died or moved off to just one side of the path; it's too difficult/too much effort to get them down and carrying that much dead weight on top of supplemental oxygen and a climbing pack is just not feasible.

[leftyladyfrommo]

7. I think they should just build a ski lift to the top.

They could charge fees.

[Codeine]

8. Death is an assumed risk for an Everest ascent.

That’s part of the appeal for many who participate. Nobody has any reason to sue anyone — they’re dicing with Death, and sometimes they roll snake eyes.

The crowding when you have a compressed climbing window has been a known issue for a while, and all of the participants knew that was a possibility. At any time going up past the unrecovered dead while seeing the crowd ahead they could have changed their mind and headed down. Most didn’t, and some of them paid the price.

[MineralMan]

9. Sue Nepal where?

In what court?

[question everything]

10. Oh, I dunnot. In our litigious society I am sure that someone is thinking about it

[MineralMan]

11. Well, I guess I "dunnot" either...

[ProudLib72]

14. Nipple? You want to sue Nipple?

I know someone who will get right on it!

[brooklynite]

15. On what legal basis would you sue a sovereign State?

[keithbvadu2]

16. It is a matter of money for the country.

Use the supply and demand chart.

[GulfCoast66]

18. The ultimate first world problem!

Nepal should totally open it up. No limits.

They are poor. If rich westerners and Asians want to pay them 100k to die on a mountain so be it.

Climbing Everest today is the ultimate expression of Narcissism.

I was troubled about it until I thought it through.

Everest won’t care. A million years from now what are a few corpses?

[JCMach1]

20. Who gives AF... Perspective... people die on the streets of Kathmandu

Every day.

The extreme poverty there is breath takingly awful.

This one poor little boy I gave money to was about 4 years old, but he must have already been living on the streets. He had the telltale dirt circle around his mouth and the dirty fingers of a.kid that was huffing glue already to kill the hunger.

Or ask the Dalit ladies at the gravel pit who for whatever small wages spend all day hammering big rocks to smaller ones and hauling a good distance to the collection place on their backs with baskets.

So yeah, these people knew the risks.and had pretty good lives before the climbed the mountain.

I am not a climber, but trekking the Annapurna range and Mustang valley was unforgettable. So, I understand why they want to go. But, even what I did came with risks that I accepted.

[greytdemocrat]

21. A fool and his/her money

are soon frozen...