More than 85 people, and counting, have met their deaths or disappeared while climbing Everest, descending the depths of the ocean, or even in the midst of less extreme adventures, like backcountry…
Youngest person ever to explore the Titanic wreck details how he lost consciousness during expedition
; billionaire explorer Hamish Harding; billionaire businessman Shahzada Dawood and his budding college student son, Sulaiman; and OceanGate Expeditions’ CEO and founder, Stockton Rush. OceanGate Expeditions’ Titan sub is believed to have imploded after departing Sunday for the Titanic wreckage.A near-record number of Mount Everest climbers have died or been presumed dead this year during the high-altitude trek.
A handful of those killed or missing were sherpas – guides tasked with helping other climbers reach the top and then complete their treacherous descents, according to reports. “The number of rescues was unprecedented, with probably 200 flights to Camp 2 over the season,” Cotter told Arnette, in Mount Everest hasn’t seen as deadly a year since 2014. Nepal’s tourism director, Yuba Raj Khatiwad, attributed the high number of deaths to “the changing in the weather,” The Guardian “The main cause is the changing in the weather. This season the weather conditions were not favorable, it was very variable,” he said. “Climate change is having a big impact in the mountains.
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