Googling indicates no. The remains were found at over 26000’ (over 8000 m). The snow leopard is apparently the local apex predator with the highest altitude range, but this extends to a maximum of around 16,000’ (say, 5000m).
This OUCH! is for Biotop.
Permit prices are going up:
I was surprised to read there are about 300 permits issued per year, it doesn’t seem like that many given the pictures of crowded slopes. Don’t know if this would apply to the Sherpas and support teams though.
This season’s first foreign climber death has been reported.
I wonder what other activities have a “first death of the season”?
Downhill skiing
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So, twice a year we have a first death of the skiing season.
More than that. They are usually reported by region or state, so you get many of them.
Never mind.
A second climber has died.
Wingsuit flying?
BASE jumping?
Do any of the on-line gambling ‘services’ offer an over/under on Everest deaths for the season?
As far as I know they don’t have seasons in the same way that big mountain climbing or skiing do. Back in the early 1900s you might apply this to gridiron football as well before the reforms were enacted.
The typical summit attempts on Everest are 2x a year, in May and then in August/September IIRC. I think that is typical. Apparently the weather is not ideal in other months.
No, only May. August/September is monsoon season.
September-November is the second season, after monsoon the weather patterns are more stable.
There is the occasional summit in October or November, but it’s not really a season. Here’s a chart of summits by day through the year.
Very helpful graph, thanks. I was pretty sure that some summited in the fall months, so I thought it was a bimodal distribution. But that graph shows it’s really mainly in May, with very few in October.
How far back does the dataset on that graph go? I know in the 90s and 2000s there were several expeditions that summited in Sep and Oct.