Why a deadly shadow hangs over Everest summit

On average five climbers die each year on the icy, narrow, oxygen-starved paths to the 8,848-metre (29,029-feet) peak. This season, 11 people died on the treacherous slopes where mountaineers queued sometimes for hours for their turn at the top.

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