Climate Change is making Mt. Everest even deadlier

http://grist.org/climate-energy/how-climate-change-makes-everest-an-even-deadlier-game/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=update&utm_campaign=socialflow

This crisis on Everest had in fact been brewing for the last few years – thanks to the confluence of the mountain’s ever-increasing popularity and global warming’s deadly rise. Even in 2011, climbers were beginning to notice how the mountain was changing, and some began to speculate that, one day, it may not be climbable at all. As Tim Ripple, a guide who was on Everest this year, wrote on his blog:

The mountain has been deteriorating rapidly the past three years due to global warming, and the breakdown in the Khumbu Icefall is dramatic, especially at the upper icefall. We need to learn more about what is going on up there. Each day we sit and listen to the groaning and crunching of the glacier. Political grievances aside, we are not here to kill people.