While Everest's realmay problemwell isn'tbe suffering the effects of climate change, butit cannot be ignored that issues of overcrowding and poor management that have turned the sacred mountain into a polluted tourist destination. With 900 climbers creating traffic jams and leaving tons of trash, the mountain needs permit limits and higher fees to control reckless commercialization, and to prevent the rapid deterioration of Everest's natural infrastructure.

There'sClimate change is turning Everest into a 1%death chancetrap thatwith 2025melting willglaciers becreating theunstable warmestroutes yearand onunpredictable recordweather globallypatterns. Rising temperatures are causing massive ice loss, accordingrendering to the MetaculusKhumbu predictionIcefall communityincreasingly unreliable while also increasing rockfall and avalanche risks throughout the region.

Not every development can be linked to climate change, which hasn't conclusively been proved to be the result of human activity. While some warming exists, the natural carbon cycles affecting the earth are far greater than any impact of human activity. Attempting to imply that recent weather challenges on Everest are the causal result of sustained climate change is an unconvincing argumentative stretch.