{"id":2444710,"date":"2019-05-29T11:02:09","date_gmt":"2019-05-29T17:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/?p=306642"},"modified":"2019-05-29T16:06:28","modified_gmt":"2019-05-29T22:06:28","slug":"aspens-mike-marolt-on-everest-im-just-blown-away-that-more-people-dont-get-killed-on-that-mountain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/aspens-mike-marolt-on-everest-im-just-blown-away-that-more-people-dont-get-killed-on-that-mountain\/","title":{"rendered":"Aspen\u2019s Mike Marolt on Everest: \u2018I\u2019m just blown away that more people don\u2019t get killed on that mountain\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
In this photo made on May 22, 2019, a long queue of mountain climbers line a path on Mount Everest. About half a dozen climbers died on Everest last week most while descending from the congested summit during only a few windows of good weather each May. (Nirmal Purja\/@Nimsdai Project Possible via AP)<\/strong>
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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

\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

\u201cI\u2019m just blown away that more people don\u2019t get killed on that mountain.\u201d<\/p>\n

Eleven have perished on Everest so far this season \u2014 including Boulder attorney Christopher Kulish<\/a>, 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

For more on this story, go to denverpost.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

via:: The Aspen Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In this photo made on May 22, 2019, a long queue of mountain climbers line a path on Mount Everest. About half a dozen climbers died on Everest last week most while descending from the congested summit during only a few windows of good weather each May. (Nirmal Purja\/@Nimsdai Project Possible via AP) When Aspen […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2444710","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-18 22:28:00","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":"KSPN The Valley's Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2444710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2444710"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2444710\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2444727,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2444710\/revisions\/2444727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2444710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2444710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2444710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}