In Depth - Rush Hour on Mount Everest

They say it's lonely at the top, but perhaps not when the pinnacle you are talking about is Mount Everest-The World's tallest peak.

The quest to reach the top of Mount Everest, brings hundreds of people to the Himalayas, but this year a dramatic picture focused the world's attention on the ever increasing crowds on the highest peak on Earth.

Overcrowding on Mount Everest has resulted in at least 10 people dying or missing in the arduous climb this year

The quest to conquer Mount Everest is dangerous and fatal. It all started in the nineteenth century when British surveyors found a Himalayan peak that towered above all others at almost 28,000 feet or nearly 9,000 metres above sea-level

Before 1865, it was called Peak XV, but in that year it was renamed Mt Everest, in honour of George Everest, the surveyor of much of the Indian sub-continent.

In 1953, the world's highest peak was conquered by New Zealander Sir Edmund Hillary and the Nepalese Sherpa Tenzing Norgay.

They became the first humans to reach the summit of Mount Everest on the Nepal-Tibet border.

IN DEPTH today looks at why there have been so many deaths on Mount Everest this year.
What is causing the overcrowding on the world's highest peak and how it can be checked? We also try and understand the human craze to conquer Mount Everest even at the cost of their lives.

Anchor: Teena Jha

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