To slow Everest deaths, mountaineers need to provide ‘climbing CV’, climbing pro says
Nick Hollis, who has just conquered Everest and completed all Seven Summits of the world, says there are too many incompetent climbers on Everest
06 June 2019 - 14:10
Maidenhead — Stepping over long-dead bodies of frozen climbers as he sought to reach the summit of Everest was something for which Nick Hollis was mentally prepared. But even this seasoned mountaineer could not have imagined there would be so many fresh ones.
The British climber has just conquered Everest and completed all Seven Summits of the world — putting him in an elite group of about 500 people globally who have scaled the highest mountains on all seven continents...
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