- Average annual Everest summits rose from about 100 in 1995–1999 to about 720 in 2021–2025.
- Since 2000, more than 99% of recorded Everest summits have occurred during the spring season.
- A record 1,519 people were recorded on Everest in 2025, with hired workers accounting for more than 60% of the total.
https://www.visualcapitalist.com/mount-everests-crowding-problem/
https://www.alanarnette.com/2026/01/26/everest-by-the-numbers-2026-edition/
Social media age. People want pictures of themselves on the summit for clout.
This started way before Social Media.
Read the Jon Krakauer book Into Thin Air, or another book called The Climb.
1995 accident started this, Sir Edmund Hillary had called it out beforehand.
This are the kind of pictures that kills, I can wager that they are cases of accidental death.
what's wrong with winter and summer, browskies?! Get out there
fascinating i didn't realize summer wouldn't be popular
Didn't know that! Coolio, thanks for checking
yeah given how popular iceland is during the summer i would have incorrectly guessed that was peak season ...
Seems like basic business economic... if it's that popular they should raise prices/taxes until there's a more optimal number of people willing to attempt the summit, while improving their profit margins.
It sucks that untrained rich people can risk the lives of Sherpa workers...
Why was it closed for convid lolz 😂
Anyways I read the fear bubble by Ant Middleton who ascended Everest as an ex special forces guy
He reflected on the summit being a massive anticlimax and the journey up with the Sherpas as the best part
Halfway up a massive crevasse appeared and the Sherpa said their only option is to use this aluminium step ladder fully extended to bridge the gap, no ropes or harnesses
Obviously spiked boots on metal isn't the best, one wrong footing and it's goodnight Vienna
Or he said, we can turn back and reattempt another day