{"id":24545,"date":"2019-05-30T15:36:00","date_gmt":"2019-05-30T21:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/news\/aspens-marolt-on-everest-im-just-blown-away-that-more-people-dont-get-killed\/"},"modified":"2019-05-30T15:36:00","modified_gmt":"2019-05-30T21:36:00","slug":"aspens-marolt-on-everest-im-just-blown-away-that-more-people-dont-get-killed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/local-news\/aspens-marolt-on-everest-im-just-blown-away-that-more-people-dont-get-killed\/","title":{"rendered":"Aspen\u2019s Marolt on Everest: \u2018I\u2019m just blown away that more people don\u2019t get killed\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"620\" height=\"382\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/05\/AspenEverest-SDN-053119.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/05\/AspenEverest-SDN-053119.jpg 620w, https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/05\/AspenEverest-SDN-053119-300x185.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\"><figcaption><strong>A long queue of mountain climbers line a path on Mount Everest just below camp four, in Nepal on May 22. Seasoned mountaineers say the Nepal government&#8217;s failure to limit the number of climbers on Mount Everest has resulted in dangerous overcrowding and a greater number of deaths.<\/strong><br \/><em>Rizza Alee \/ AP | AP<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"[No paragraph style]\">When Aspen mountaineer Mike Marolt ponders pictures of a traffic jam last week on a precipitous ridge near the Mount Everest summit and the recent carnage on the world\u2019s tallest mountain, he recalls a night high in the \u201cDeath Zone\u201d there in 2007 while attempting to climb it without oxygen.<\/p>\n<p class=\"[No paragraph style]\">\u201cThe harrowing activity of sleeping in a tent at over 27,000 feet was probably the scariest thing I\u2019ve ever done,\u201d said Marolt, who is renowned for climbing and skiing high-altitude peaks from the Himalayas to the Andes. \u201cIf you could communicate that to those people in that line that are sucking on (bottled) oxygen, that have Sherpas assisting them, if people knew how utterly dangerous it was to be above 25,000 feet without oxygen, that line would disappear. If you could magically flip a switch to turn everybody\u2019s oxygen off in that line, you\u2019d have a 90 percent fatality rate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"[No paragraph style]\">\u201cI\u2019m just blown away that more people don\u2019t get killed on that mountain.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"[No paragraph style]\">Eleven have perished on Everest so far this season \u2014 including Boulder attorney Christopher Kulish, who died Monday on his way down from the summit. Not for the first time, a tragic death toll has brought into question the number of climbing permits issued by the government of Nepal and the performance of commercial guiding operations that have made it possible for inexperienced mountaineers to attempt the 29,029-foot behemoth on the Nepal-Tibet border in the Himalayas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"[No paragraph style]\">For more on this story, go to: Bit.ly\/AspenEverest<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/news\/sports\/aspens-marolt-on-everest-im-just-blown-away-that-more-people-dont-get-killed\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Summit Daily<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A long queue of mountain climbers line a path on Mount Everest just below camp four, in Nepal on May 22. Seasoned mountaineers say the Nepal government&#8217;s failure to limit the number of climbers on Mount Everest has resulted in dangerous overcrowding and a greater number of deaths.Rizza Alee \/ AP | AP When Aspen [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[97],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-24545","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-11 08:04:58","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KIFT - The LIFT FM","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24545\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}