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This is why Everest climbers typically make several trips up and down the mountain to increasingly high elevation camps to acclimate their bodies to high altitude conditions. Other risks to Everest climbers include frostbite and hypothermia from the extreme temperatures, thrombosis or embolisms caused by thickening of blood in response to high altitude, extreme sunburn, and broken bones from falls.
Nepalâs biggest alpine association will push the countryâs government to implement an age limit on who can climb the worldâs tallest mountain after the death of an 85-year-old at Everest base camp at the weekend, the second fatality in the past week.