Kathmandu — Climbers tackling Mount Everest are twice as likely to make it to the summit and slightly less likely to die than two decades ago, despite a sharp increase in crowding in the “death zone”, a study released on Wednesday shows.
From 2006 to 2019, about two-thirds of climbers were successful in their attempt to reach the summit, compared with about a third in the preceding 15 years, according to the study by the University of Washington and the University of California, Davis...
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